Jonathan's Space Report Nov 8 1990 (no.59) ---------------------------------------------------- STS-38/Atlantis is due for launch on Nov 15. Stacking of the solid rocket boosters for mission STS-39/Discovery has begun on Mobile Launcher 2 in the Vehicle Assembly Building. Columbia remains on pad LC39B ready for a December launch. Gennadiy Manakov and Gennadiy Strekalov continue in orbit aboard the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-10/Progress M-5 complex. The spacewalk on Oct 30 lasted 3h 45m; the cosmonauts failed to repair the Kvant-2 EVA hatch. The 21st Gorizont communications satellite was launched from Baykonur on Nov 3 by 4-stage Proton. The third Titan IV was launched on Nov 13 at 0037 UT. It reportedly carried the DSP F15 early warning satellite to geostationary orbit, using an IUS upper stage. The satellite carries an infrared Schmidt telescope which monitors rocket launches; it is operated by US Space Command. The next satellite in the series, F16, is scheduled for launch by Shuttle on mission STS 44. ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia LC39B | |OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 1 | |OV-104 Atlantis LC39A | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML1/STS-38/ET/OV104 LC39A | |ML2/STS-39 VAB | |ML3/STS-35/ET/OV102 LC39B | ----------------------------------- (c) 1990 Jonathan McDowell