Jonathan's Space Report No. 328 1997 Jul 22 Cambridge, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Mir --------------- Columbia landed on KSC's Runway 33 at 1046:34 UTC on Jul 17 closing out a successful mission STS-94. The deorbit burn was at 0944 UTC following payload bay door closing at around 0700 UTC. Discovery is now at pad 39A preparing for launch of STS-85. Mir lost power and attitude control on Jul 16 when a cable was accidentally disconnected, but the crew were able to use the Soyuz to reorient the station and restore the situation. It now looks like a spacewalk to reconnect the Spektr power cables will be delayed until the next Soyuz launch; researcher Leopold Eyharts of France's CNES has been bumped from the crew and will fly next year instead. The EO-24 crew will now be just commander Anatoliy Yakovlevich Solov'yov of the Russian Air Force and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov from RKK Energiya. Solov'yov (no relation to flight director and former cosmonaut Vladimir Solov'yov who's been much in the news lately) was commander of Soyuz TM-5, Soyuz TM-9, and Soyuz TM-15, as well as a passenger on STS-71. He was commander of Mir for the EO-6, EO-12 and EO-19 missions, and commander of the Soviet-Bulgarian visiting crew on Soyuz TM-5. Vinogradov has not flown previously. Recent Launches --------------- Iridium SV021 failed on orbit a few days after launch from Vandenberg. The other four satellites from the recent launch are operating correctly, but have not yet raised their orbits. Erratum: the Thor II comsat launch was on May 20, not May 21 as I had written in recent issues. Table of Recent Launches ------------------------ Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Jun 3 2321 Inmarsat 3 F4) Ariane 44L Kourou ELA2 Comsat 27A Insat 2D ) Comsat 27B Jun 6 1757 Kosmos-2344 Proton-K/DM-2M Baykonur LC200 Recon? 28A Jun 10 1201 FY-2 Chang Zheng 3 Xichang Weather 29A Jun 18 1402 Iridium SV009 ) Proton-K/DM-5 Baykonur Comsat 30D Iridium SV010 ) Comsat 30C Iridium SV011 ) Comsat 30G Iridium SV012 ) Comsat 30B Iridium SV013 ) Comsat 30E Iridium SV014 ) Comsat 30A Iridium SV016 ) Comsat 30F Jun 25 2344 Intelsat 802 Ariane 44P Kourou ELA2 Comsat 31A Jul 1 1802 Columbia ) Shuttle Kennedy LC39A Spaceship 32A Spacelab MSL-1R ) Jul 5 0411 Progress M-35 Soyuz-U Baykonur LC1 Cargo 33A Jul 6 0600 Sojourner - Sagan Station, Mars Rover Jul 9 1304 Iridium SV015 ) Delta 7920 Vandenberg SLC2W Comsat 34A Iridium SV017 ) Comsat 34B Iridium SV018 ) Comsat 34C Iridium SV020 ) Comsat 34D Iridium SV021 ) Comsat 34E Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 2 STS-87 Nov 19 OV-103 Discovery LC39A STS-85 Aug 7 OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 3 STS-86 Sep 18 OV-105 Endeavour OPF Bay 1 STS-89 Jan 15 MLP/SRB/ET/OV stacks MLP1/ MLP2/RSRM-61 VAB Bay 1? STS-86 MLP3/RSRM-57/ET-87/OV-103 LC39A STS-85 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS6 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | jmcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | | | JSR: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html | | Back issues: ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/jcm/space/news/news.* | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'