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- From: mcdowell@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
- Subject: "Jonathan's Space Report, no. 140"
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- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:27:43 GMT
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- Jonathan's Space Report
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- No. 140 1993 Jan 21
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- Mission STS-54
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- Space Shuttle OV-105 Endeavour was launched at 1359:30 UTC on Jan 13
- into a 300 km, 28 degree orbit. At 2012 UTC the TDRS-6 satellite was
- deployed; the two solid motors of IUS-13 ignited to place TDRS-6 in
- synchronous orbit. The other payload in the bay was DXS, the University
- of Wisconsin Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer. Initially, DXS did not shut
- down quickly enough when passing through the intense South Atlantic
- Anomaly radiation zone, causing damage to the instrument. After a gas
- flushing procedure the problem was solved and it is believed that good
- data were obtained. At 1050 UTC on Jan 17, the airlock was depressurized
- for the DTO 1210 spacewalk experiment. Astronauts Greg Harbaugh and
- Mario Runco carried out a 4h 27 min spacewalk to verify the accuracy of
- water training exercises. Deorbit came at 1238 UTC on Jan 19, with
- landing at 1338 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center. Endeavour's
- next mission is STS-57 in April. The next Shuttle flight is Columbia's
- STS-55/Spacelab D-2 in February; the external tank has now been
- mated to the solid rocket boosters.
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- Mir
- ---
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- Launch of Soyuz TM-16 is scheduled for Jan 24. Crew are
- Gennadiy Manakov and Aleksandr Polishchuk. They will replace
- the current Mir crew of Anatoliy Solov'yov and Sergey Avdeev.
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- Launches
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- Kosmos-2230 is a navigation satellite launched Jan 12 from Plesetsk.
- It is built by PO Polyot of Omsk.
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- A Molniya comsat was launched Jan 13 from Plesetsk into 12 hour
- elliptical orbit. It is built by NPO-PM of Krasnoyarsk.
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- Current Shuttle Processing Status
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- Orbiters Location Mission
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- OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 2 STS-55
- OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-56
- OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP
- OV-105 Endeavour OPF Bay 1 STS-57
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- ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks
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- ML1/STS-56 VAB Bay 1
- ML2/
- ML3/STS-55/ET VAB Bay 3
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