Jonathan's Space Report No. 187 1994 Mar 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks this week go to Rudiger Jehn and Russell Eberst for info and errata. Shuttle ------- Oops! Launch time was of course 1353 UTC, not 1153 UTC as I said last week. Columbia continues on orbit on mission STS-62 in a 296 x 305 km x 39.0 deg orbit. The next scheduled mission is STS-59, which will carry the Space Radar Laboratory. Mir --- The Progress M-17 cargo craft, which had been left in orbit for longevity tests, reentered over the South Atlantic on March 3. The Soyuz TM-18 crew of Afanas'ev, Usachyov and Polyakov continue in orbit aboard the Mir station. Launches -------- None since last week. GPS 36 / SEDS 2 is due for launch on March 10 at 0332 UT by Delta from Cape Canaveral. The Clementine DSPSE probe entered lunar orbit on Feb 21. It is reportedly in a 2171 x 4658 km orbit with an inclination of 89.3 deg to the lunar equator. Date Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Feb 5 0846 Raduga-1 Proton/DM2 Baykonur LC81 Comsat 08A Feb 7 2147 Milstar DFS 1 Titan 4 Centaur Canaveral LC40 Comsat 09A Feb 8 0830 Shi Jian 4 ) Chang Zheng 3A Xichang Scientific 10A DFH-3 mockup ) Feb 9 1454 ODERACS A ) GAS can Discovery, LEO Calibration 06B ODERACS B ) 06C ODERACS C ) 06D ODERACS D ) 06E ODERACS E ) 06F ODERACS F ) 06G Feb 9 1932 BREMSAT GAS can Discovery, LEO Scientific 06H Feb 12 0854 Kosmos-2268 ) Tsiklon Plesetsk LC32 Comsat 11A Kosmos-2269 ) Kosmos-2270 ) Kosmos-2271 ) Kosmos-2272 ) Kosmos-2273 ) Feb 18 Raduga Proton/DM2 Baykonur LC81? Comsat 12A Feb 19 2345 Galaxy IR Delta 7925 Canaveral LC17 Comsat 13A Mar 2 Koronas-I? Tsiklon Plesetsk LC32? Solar phys 14A Mar 4 1353 Columbia Shuttle Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 15A Reentries --------- Feb 4 Ryusei Impacted Pacific Ocean Feb 11 Discovery Landed at KSC Mar 3 Progress M-17 Reentered over Atlantic Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission OV-102 Columbia LEO STS-62 OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-64 OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP OV-105 Endeavour OPF Bay 1 STS-59 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/ ML2/RSRM-37?/ET-63 VAB Bay 3 STS-59 ML3/ .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' ,