Jonathan's Space Report No. 477 2002 Apr 26 Cambridge, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- In the course of 4 spacewalks the STS-110 crew added the S0 truss to the Station. On Apr 11 at 1030 UTC the S0 truss was unberthed from Atlantis, and berthed to the Destiny module's Lab Cradle Assembly at 1346 UTC. At 1433 the Quest airlock was depressurized and Smith and Walheim emerged to bolt in place the two forward MTS struts and deploy a trailing umbilical for the mobile transporter. The airlock was repressurized at 2224 UTC. The second spacewalk was from 1405 to 2139 UTC on Apr 13; Ross and Morin attached the aft MTS struts and deployed the second trailing umbilical. On Apr 14 from 1344 to 2015 UTC Smith and Walheim made the third EVA and rewired the SSRMS station robot arm to get power via S0; they also removed launch restraint bolts from the Mobile Transporter. On Apr 16 from about 1426 UTC to 2106 UTC the airlock was again depressurized, and Ross and Morin deployed the Airlock Spur, a small ladder from S0 to Quest, as well as installing some floodlights. The Mobile Transporter was tested in a small move on Apr 15. Atlantis undocked from ISS at 1831 UTC on Apr 17 and returned to Earth on Apr 19, with a deorbit burn at 1518:59 UTC and landing on runway 33 at KSC at 1626:57 UTC. At 0916 UTC on Apr 20 Soyuz TM-33 undocked from the Zarya nadir port carrying the Expedition-4 crew. It redocked with the Pirs nadir port at 0937 UTC. Soyuz TM-34 (spacecraft No. 208) was launched on Apr 25. Commander is Yuri Gidzenko of Rosaviakosmos, flight engineer is Roberto Vittori of ESA. Tourist Mark Shuttleworth, a South African citizen, is also aboard as 'uchastnik poleta', or 'flight participant'. The 4S flight will dock at the Zarya nadir port and the crew will return to Earth in the old TM-33 vehicle, leaving TM-34 as the active rescue vehicle. At 1210 UTC Soyuz TM-34 was in a 242 x 269 km x 51.6 deg orbit. The next Shuttle mission is STS-111, scheduled for late May. Recent Launches --------------- Arianespace launched Ariane mission V150, an Ariane 44L, on Apr 16. The Lockheed Martin A2100 class NSS 7 satellite was put in orbit; the satellite is owned by New Skies, an Intelsat spinoff, and carries a C/Ku band telecoms payload. The spacecraft was in a 24200 x 35706 km x 0.7 deg orbit by Apr 24, on its way to GEO. Space Command has now cataloged the Kosmos-2388 satellite in a 519 x 39178 km x 62.93 deg orbit, over two weeks after its launch. As of Apr 22, TDRS I was still in an 8391 x 35806 km transfer orbit with no new orbit changes since late March. Table of Recent Launches ----------------------- Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Mar 1 0108 Envisat Ariane 5G Kourou ELA3 Rem.Sensing 09A Mar 1 1122 Columbia STS-109 Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39A Spaceship 10A Mar 8 2259 TDRS I Atlas 2A Canaveral SLC36A Data relay 11A Mar 17 0921 GRACE 1 ) Rokot Plesetsk LC133 Science 12A GRACE 2 ) 12B Mar 19 2228 Kolibri - Progress, LEO Education 01-51C Mar 21 2013 Progress M1-8 Soyuz-FG Baykonur LC1 Cargo 13A Mar 25 1415 Shenzhou 3 ) CZ-2F Jiuquan Spaceship 14A SZ-3 module ) 14C Mar 29 0129 Astra 3A) Ariane 44L Kourou ELA2 Comms 15A JCSAT 8 ) Comms 15B Mar 30 1725 Intelsat 903 Proton-K/DM3 Baykonur LC81/23 Comms 16A Apr 1 2207 Kosmos-2388 Molniya-M Plesetsk LC16/2 Early Warn 17A Apr 8 2044 Atlantis STS-110) Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 18A S0 ) Station piece Apr 16 2302 NSS 7 Ariane 44L Kourou ELA2 Comms 19A Apr 25 0626 Soyuz TM-34 Soyuz-U Baykonur LC1 Spaceship 20A Current Shuttle Processing Status _________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due OV-102 Columbia OPF STS-107 2002 Jul 11 Spacehab OV-103 Discovery OPF Maintenance OV-104 Atlantis OPF STS-112 2002 Aug 22 ISS 9A OV-105 Endeavour VAB STS-111 2002 May 30 ISS UF-2 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS6 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@cfa.harvard.edu | | USA | jmcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | | | JSR: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html | | Back issues: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/back | | Subscribe/unsub: mail majordomo@head-cfa.harvard.edu, (un)subscribe jsr | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'