Jonathan's Space Report No. 101 23 Jan 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Discovery was launched on Jan 22 at 1452.33 UT from LC39A at Kennedy Space Center. The IML-1 Spacelab mission has begun its experiments. Discovery also carries the Australian 'Endeavour' GAS can UV astronomical imaging experiment. Chinese controllers have fired the apogee motor of the DFH comsat stranded in low orbit. It is now in 12-hour transfer orbit but has no way of getting into stationary orbit from there. Results from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) presented at the Atlanta AAS meeting indicate that among the brightest 100 MeV gamma ray sources in the sky are three flat spectrum radio quasars at redshifts of order one; there doesn't seem to be anything particulary special about the three quasars (4C 38.41, PKS 0528+134, and PKS 0208-512) at other wavebands, and they weren't particularly well known until now. ___________________________________ |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?/STS-45 VAB | |ML2?/STS-49 VAB | |ML3/STS-42/ET/OV-102 LC39A | ----------------------------------- .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : mcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'