Jonathan's Space Report No. 175 1993 Nov 18 *** I apologize for the erratic nature of JSR at the moment. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shuttle ------- Erratum: STS-58 landing was 1505:43 UTC, not 1005:43 UTC. Sorry for the typo. After contamination was found at pad 39A, STS-61/Endeavour was transferred to pad 39B on Nov 15. Launch is still due for Dec 1. Launches -------- Kosmos-2266, launched on November 2, is a military navigation satellite in the 'Parus' series, built by NPO-PM of Krasnoyarsk. Kosmos-2267, launched on Nov 5, is a spy satellite in a 70.4 degree orbit. Date Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Oct 5 1756 Landsat 6 Titan 23G Vandenberg SLC4W Remote s. FTO Oct 8 0800 Jian Bing Chang Zheng 2C Jiuquan Remote s. 63A Oct 11 2133 Progress M-20 Soyuz Baykonur LC2 Cargo 64A Oct 18 1453 Columbia ) Space Shuttle Kennedy LC39 Spaceship 65A Spacelab SLS 2) Oct 22 0646 Intelsat 701 Ariane Kourou Comsat 66A Oct 26 1000 Kosmos-2265 Kosmos Plesetsk Calib 67A Oct 26 1704 Navstar GPS 34 Delta 7925 Canaveral LC17 Navsat 68A Oct 28 1517 Gorizont Proton Baykonur Comsat 69A Nov 2 1210? Kosmos-2266 Kosmos Plesetsk Navsat 70A Nov 5 0825? Kosmos-2267 Soyuz Baykonur Recon 71A Reentries --------- Oct 13 Progress M-19 Deorbited Nov 1 Columbia Landed Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 2 STS-62 OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-60 OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP OV-105 Endeavour LC39B STS-61 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/ ML2/RSRM-23/ET-61/OV-105 LC39B STS-61 ML3/RSRM-35? VAB Bay 3 STS-60 .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'