Jonathan's Space Report No. 211 1994 Sep 20 Cambridge, MA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle ------- Discovery's STS-64 mission was successful, with the LITE lidar and the SPIFEX experiment working well. The Spartan 201 satellite was deployed on Sep 13 at 2136 and retrieved on Sep 15 at 2101. The EVA to test the SAFER backpack was successfully carried out on Sep 16 at 1442 and lasted 6 h 51 min. Both Mark Lee and Carl Meade tried out the SAFER backpack. Discovery landed on Runway 04 at Edwards AFB in California at approximately 2112:53 UTC on Sep 20 (main gear touchdown), giving a flight time of 10 days 22h 50 min 0 sec. Endeavour was rolled out to pad 39A on Sep 13 for another try at the STS-68 mission. Launch is due on Sep 30. Mir --- The Mir commander and flight engineer made another EVA on Sep 14 to install solar array mounts on the Kvant module. Launches -------- No new launches this week. Recent Launches --------------- Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Aug 10 2305 Brasilsat B1 ) Ariane 44LP Kourou ELA2 Comsat 49A Turksat 1B ) Comsat 49B Aug 11 1527 Kosmos-2287 ) Proton-K/DM2 Baykonur LC81 Navsat 50A Kosmos-2288 ) Navsat 50B Kosmos-2289 ) Navsat 50C Aug 23 1431 Molniya-3 Molniya Plesetsk LC43 Comsat 51A Aug 25 1425 Progress M-24 Soyuz-U Baykonur LC1 Cargo 52A Aug 26 1200 Kosmos-2290 Zenit-2 Baykonur LC45 Recon 53A Aug 27 0858 USA-105 Titan Centaur Canaveral LC41 SIGINT 54A Aug 27 2310 Optus B3 CZ-2E Xichang Comsat 55A Aug 28 0750 Kiku 6 H-II Tanegashima Comsat 56A Aug 29 1738 DMSP 23545 Atlas 20E Vandenberg Weather 57A Sep 9 0029 Telstar 402 Ariane 42L Kourou ELA2 Comsat 58A Sep 9 2222 Discovery Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 59A Sep 13 2130 Spartan 201 - Discovery, LEO Astronomy 59B Sep 16 SAFER/M. Lee - Discovery, LEO Sep 16 SAFER/C. Meade - Discovery, LEO Reentries --------- Sep 20 Discovery Landed at Edwards AFB Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 1 OMDP - OV-103 Discovery Edwards RW04 STS-64 OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 3 STS-66 Oct 27 OV-105 Endeavour LC39A STS-68 Sep 30 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/RSRM-40/ET-65/OV-105 LC39A STS-68 ML2/ LC39B ML3/RSRM-42/ET VAB Bay 3 STS-66 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'