Jonathan's Space Report No. 216 1994 Oct 31 Cambridge, MA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle ------- Atlantis is being prepared for launch on Nov 3 on mission STS-66. Discovery will fly on the Mir rendezvous flight in February, and has been joined in the Orbiter Processing Facility by Endeavour. Endeavour was flown back from California last week aboard SCA 911, and will fly the Astro-2 flight in late February or early March. Recent Launches --------------- None for the past two weeks. Launch activity often drops in October-November for some reason. Anticipated launches include the Elektro weather satellite from Baykonur, the Wind science satellite and the Orion communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, and STS-66. Soyuz TM-19 will land on Nov 3 or Nov 4. Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Sep 30 1116 Endeavour Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39A Spaceship 62A Oct 3 2242 Soyuz TM-20 Soyuz-U2 Baykonur LC1 Spaceship 63A Oct 6 0635 Intelsat 703 Atlas Centaur Canaveral LC36B Comsat 64A Oct 8 0107 Solidaridad 2 ) Ariane 44L Kourou ELA2 Comsat 65A Thaicom 2 ) Comsat 65B Oct 11 1430 Okean-O1 No. 7 Tsiklon-3 Plesetsk LC32 Rem.sensing 66A Oct 13 1619 Ekspress Proton-K/DM-2-1 Baykonur LC200 Comsat 67A Oct 15 0505 IRS-P2 PSLV Sriharikota Rem.sensing 68A Reentries --------- Oct 2 ODERACS A reentered Oct 4 ODERACS B reentered Oct 4 Progress M-24 Deorbited Oct 11 Endeavour Landed at Edwards AFB Oct 12 Magellan Entered Venus atmosphere Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due OV-102 Columbia Palmdale OMDP - OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 2 STS-63 Feb 2 OV-104 Atlantis LC39B STS-66 Nov 3 OV-105 Endeavour OPF Bay 1 STS-67 Feb 23 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/RSRM VAB Bay 3 STS-63 ML2/RSRM-43 VAB Bay 1 STS-67 ML3/RSRM/ET-67/OV-104 LC-39B 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 | | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'