Jonathan's Space Report No. 176 1993 Dec 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks again to Joel Runes and Vladimir Agapov for contributing info. Shuttle ------- The first attempt to launch STS-61 was scrubbed on Dec 1 due to weather. Mir --- Cosmonauts Tsibliev and Serebrov continue in orbit aboard Mir, beginning their fifth month aboard the station. The Progress M-20 cargo spacecraft was undocked and deorbited on Nov 21. It was reported to be carrying a Raduga reentry capsule but I don't know if it was recovered successfully. Launches -------- The Gorizont satellite launched on Nov 18 is reportedly the one purchased by the US company Rimsat for Pacific Rim communications. It will be stationed at 130 degrees E. Solidaridad 1 is a Hughes HS-601 comsat built for the Mexican government company Telecomunicaciones de Mexico. Meteosat 6 is part of ESA's Meteosat Operational Program. Ownership of the Aerospatiale-built satellite will be transferred to EUMETSAT, the European Meteorological Satellite Organization, in February. Atlas Centaur 106, an Atlas II variant with an IABS apogee stage, launched another Defense Satellite Communications System comsat for the US DoD on Nov 28. The next Atlas launch is the first Atlas IIAS, with strap-on solid boosters. Date Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Oct 11 2133 Progress M-20 Soyuz Baykonur LC1 Cargo 64A Oct 18 1453 Columbia ) Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 65A Spacelab SLS 2) Oct 22 0646 Intelsat 701 Ariane Kourou ELA2 Comsat 66A Oct 26 1000 Kosmos-2265 Kosmos Plesetsk LC132 Calib 67A Oct 26 1704 Navstar GPS 34 Delta 7925 Canaveral LC17 Navsat 68A Oct 28 1517 Gorizont Proton Baykonur LC81 Comsat 69A Nov 2 1210 Kosmos-2266 Kosmos Plesetsk LC132 Navsat 70A Nov 5 0825 Kosmos-2267 Soyuz Baykonur LC1 Recon 71A Nov 18 1355 Rimsat/Gorizont Proton Baykonur LC81 Comsat 72A Nov 20 0117 Solidaridad 1 ) Ariane Kourou ELA2 Comsat 73A Meteosat 6 ) Weather 73B Nov 28 2340 DSCS III Atlas Centaur Canaveral LC36 Comsat 74A Reentries --------- Oct 13 Progress M-19 Deorbited Nov 1 Columbia Landed Nov 20 Kosmos-808 Reentered Nov 21 Progress M-20 Deorbited Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 2 STS-62 OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-60 OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP OV-105 Endeavour LC39B STS-61 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/ ML2/RSRM-23/ET-61/OV-105 LC39B STS-61 ML3/RSRM-35?/ET? VAB Bay 3 STS-60 .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'