Jonathan's Space Report Sep 7, 1989 (no.24) Happy Plutonic Perihelion! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Soyuz TM-8 was launched from Baykonur on Sep 5 and docked with the Mir orbital station on Sep 7. The crew are Aleksandr Viktorenko (Kdr) and Aleksandr Serebrov (BI, or flight engineer). The final Titan 34D was launched on Sep 4 from Cape Canaveral. AvLeak prelaunch reports suggested the payload was a pair of DoD comsats (DSCS II F-16 and DSCS III F-4) with an IUS upper stage, but I have not managed to confirm this. Kosmos-2037, launched Aug 28 by Tsiklon from Plesetsk, is a geodetic satellite. NASDA's Himawari-4/GMS-4 weather satellite was successfully launched from Tanegashima, Japan by H-I vehicle on Sep 5. (c) 1989 Jonathan McDowell