Jonathan's Space Report No. 213 1994 Oct 4 Somerville, MA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies - I accidentally sent out No 212 a second time. That's what you get for working over a modem. Here is no. 213 for real. - Jonathan Shuttle ------- Endeavour was launched at 1116.00 UT on 1994 Sep 30 from complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. STS-68 is the 65th Space Shuttle flight and Endeavour's seventh. On Sep 30 Endeavour's orbit was 213 x 226 km x 57.0 deg. The Space Radar Lab payload is working well. Crew of Endeavour are Capt. Michael Baker, USN (crew commander), Maj. Terrence Wilcutt, USMC, Dr. Tom Jones (payload commander), Steven Smith, Cdr. Daniel Bursch, USN, and Dr. Jeff Wisoff. Mir --- Soyuz TM-20 was launched at 2242:30 UT on Oct 3. Crew commander of the EO-17 crew is veteran cosmonaut Alexander Viktorenko of the Russian air force. Flight engineer is Elena Kondakova of NPO Energiya. Cosmonaut-researcher is Ulf Merbold of the European Space Agency. The spacecraft entered a 200 x 249 km orbit at an inclination of 51.6 deg, and will rendevous and dock with the Mir orbital complex tomorrow. Viktorenko and Kondakova will relieve the current commander and flight engineer, Yuriy Malenchenko and Talgat Musabaev, who will return to Earth next month with Merbold. The station doctor, Valeriy Polyakov, will remain aboard Mir with the new crew. Kondakova is the third Russian woman to fly in space, after Valentina Tereshkova (1963), and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982, 1984). Progress M-24 undocked from the Kvant module at 1855:52 UT on Oct 4, leaving the rear docking port free for Soyuz TM-20. It was deorbited at 2144 UT and decayed into the Pacific at 38.4 deg S, 137.4 deg W, according to data recieved from Vladimir Agapov. Recent Launches --------------- Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Sep 9 0029 Telstar 402 Ariane 42L Kourou ELA2 Comsat 58A Sep 9 2222 Discovery Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 59A Sep 13 2130 Spartan 201 - Discovery, LEO Astronomy 59B Sep 16 1516 SAFER/M. Lee - Discovery, LEO Sep 16 1740? SAFER/C. Meade - Discovery, LEO Sep 21 1753 Kosmos-2291 Proton-K/DM-2 Baykonur LC200 Comsat? 60A Sep 27 1400 Kosmos-2292 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk LC132 Calibration 61A Sep 30 1116 Endeavour Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39A Spaceship 62A Oct 3 2242 Soyuz TM-20 Soyuz-U2 Baykonur LC1 Spaceship 63A Reentries --------- Sep 11 Kosmos-2284 Landed Sep 13 FSW-2 service module Reentered Sep 20 Discovery Landed at Edwards AFB Oct 4 Progress M-24 Deorbited Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 1 OMDP - OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 2 STS-63 Feb OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 3 STS-66 Oct 27 OV-105 Endeavour LEO STS-68 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/ ML2/RSRM-43 VAB Bay 1 STS-67 ML3/RSRM-42/ET-67 VAB Bay 3 STS-66 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'