Jonathan's Space Report

Sep 18 1990 (no.52)
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The launch of STS-35/Columbia was scrubbed on Sep 17 due to 
another LH2 leak. STS-41/Discovery is on pad 39B.

Gennadiy Manakov and Gennadiy Strekalov continue in orbit aboard the 
Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-10/Progress M-4 complex. Launch
of Progress M-5 is due Sep 27.

Kosmos-2099 is a polar recon satellite; it was launched on Aug 31.

Atmosphere 1 is a Chinese balloon satellite; observations of
the effects of atmospheric drag on its orbit will allow the
density of the upper atmosphere to be measured. The satellite
was deployed as a secondary payload by the CZ-4 rocket which
launched Feng Yun 2 on Sep 3.

Another Resurs-F remote sensing satellite was launched on Sep 7;
this one carries a West German materials processing experiment.

Rimantas Stankyuvichiis, a Soviet Ministry of Aviation test pilot
assigned to a Buran shuttle mission, was killed in an air crash
in Italy on 9 Sep.

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|Current STS status:              |
|Orbiters                         |
|                                 |
|OV-102 Columbia        LC39A     |
|OV-103 Discovery       LC39B     |
|OV-104 Atlantis        OPF Bay 2 |
|                                 |
|ML/ET/SRB stacks                 |
|                                 |
|ML3/STS-35/ET/OV102    LC39A     | 
|ML1/STS-38/ET          VAB Bay 3 |
|ML2/STS-41/ET/OV103    LC39B     |
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(c) 1990 Jonathan McDowell


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