This is the draft of the NEXT issue of JSR. WARNING: Information on this page is up to date but not well checked, and may include wild rumours and downright nonsense. For the CURRENT issue of JSR, click here
Jonathan's Space Report
No. 697 draft 2014 Apr 19 Somerville, MA
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Space Station
---------------------------
Expedition 39 continues with commander Koichi Wakata and flight engineers
Tyurin, Mastracchio, Skvortsov, Artem'ev and Swanson.
Dragon CRS-3 completed its rendezvous with the ISS on Apr 20 and was grappled
by the SSRMS robot arm at 1114 UTC. The arm berthed Dragon on the Harmony module's
nadir CBM port at 1402 UTC, with the process completed at 1406 UTC.
Errata
-------
My discussion of the ISEE 3 spacecraft in JSR696 was based on the contemporary
report in Spaceflight magazine. My colleagues at the National Air and Space Museum
have retrieved the original document, which turns out to be a 'declaration of
intent' to transfer the title to the Smithsonian at a future date - such transfer
not having in fact occurred. So it appears that ISEE 3 is still the property of
NASA.
In JSR 696, the PhoneSat-2.5 cubesat, a 1U experiment from
NASA-Ames which was ejected from the Falcon 9 second stage, was briefly
mentioned in the text but inadvertently omitted from the launch table.
Table of Recent (orbital) Launches
----------------------------------
Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL.
Apr 3 1446 DMSP 5D-3 F-19 Atlas V 401 Vandenberg SLC3E Weather 15A
Apr 3 2102 Sentinel-1A Soyuz-2-1A CSG ELS Radar 16A
Apr 4 1144 IRNSS-1B PSLV-XL Sriharikota FLP Navigation 17A
Apr 9 1526 Progress M-23M Soyuz-U Baykonur LC1 Cargo 18A
Apr 9 1906 'Ofeq-10 Shaviyt Palmachim Radar 19A
Apr 10 1745 USA 250 Atlas V 541 Canaveral SLC41 Sigint 20A
Apr 16 1620 Egyptsat-2 Soyuz-U Baykonur LC31 Imaging 21A
Apr 18 1925 Dragon CRS-3 ) Falcon 9 v1.1 Canaveral SLC40 Cargo 22A
SporeSat ) Bio 22
TSat ) Tech 22
All-Star ) Sci 22
PhoneSat-2.5 ) Tech 22
Kicksat ) Tech 22
Sprite (00,01) ) Tech 22
to )
Sprite (206,207) ) Tech 22
Suborbital missions
-------------------
A sounding rocket launched from Kapustin Yar on Mar 26 failed and landed
near a village in an unplanned area of western Kazakhstan; launches within Kazakhstan
have been suspended pending the accident investigation. The MN-300/MR-30 sounding
rocket system has a nominal apogee of 300 km, and given the range achieved probably
attained a comparable height this time despite the failure.
Table of Recent (suborbital) Launches
----------------------------------
Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km
Mar 26 2225 MR-30 MN-300 Kapustin Yar Met/Ionos? 300?
Apr 14 0640 Yars RV x 4? Yars Plesetsk Test 1000?
.-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Jonathan McDowell | |
| Somerville MA 02143 | inter : planet4589 at gmail |
| USA | twitter: @planet4589 |
| |
| JSR: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html |
| Back issues: http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back |
| Subscribe/unsub: http://www.planet4589.org/mailman/listinfo/jsr |
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------'