Jonathan's Space Report 21 Aug 1991 (no.85) ---------------------------------------------------- Discovery is on the pad; launch on mission STS-48 is due for Sep 12. It will launch the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. Columbia is in Palmdale, Ca. being refitted for Extended Duration Orbiter operations. Anatoliy Artsebarksiy and Sergey Krikalyov continue in orbit aboard the Mir/Kvant/Sofora/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-12/Progress M-8 complex. I havent heard anything on Radio Moscow about them since the coup began (not that there are any tanks on Mir). Progress M-8 will soon be replaced by the Progress M-9 cargo craft. An Ariane 44L, flight V45, was launched on Aug 14 from Kourou, orbiting the Intelsat VI F-5 communications satellite. A Meteor-3 weather satellite was launched on Aug 15 by Tsiklon from Plesetsk. It carries a NASA experiment, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia Palmdale | |OV-103 Discovery LC39A | |OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 2 | |OV-105 Endeavour OPF Bay 1 | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML1 VAB | |ML2 | |ML3/STS-48/ET/OV-103 LC39A | ----------------------------------- N.B. Information in this report is obtained from public sources and does not reflect the official views of NASA. .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (205)544-7724 | | Space Science Lab ES65 | uucp: | | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | bitnet : | | Huntsville AL 35812 | inter : mcdowell@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'