Jonathan's Space Report May 3 1991 (no.73) ---------------------------------------------------- Discovery was launched on mission STS-39 at 1133.14 UT on Apr 28. The IBSS-SPAS satellite was deployed on May 1 at 0817 and retrieved at 2225 on May 2. The CRO-C subsatellite was deployed on May 2 at 0128; the CRO-B subsatellite was deployed on May 2 at 1803; the CRO-A subsatellite was deployed on May 3 at 1210. Landing is scheduled for May 6. Viktor Afanas'ev and Musa Manarov continue in orbit aboard the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-11/Progress M-7 complex. Launch of Soyuz TM-12 is due for May 18, with the replacement long stay crew of Anatoliy Artesbarskiy and Sergey Krikalyov. Soyuz TM-12 will also carry as a passenger the British Project Juno cosmonaut Helen Sharman, who will return with Afanas'ev and Manarov in Soyuz TM-11. Kosmos-2142, a navigation satellite, was launched by Kosmos R-14 from Plesetsk on Apr 16 into a 1000 km orbit. The fourth Meteor-3 weather satellite was launched by Tsiklon from Plesetsk on Apr 24 into a 1200 km orbit. ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia LC39B | |OV-103 Discovery Earth orbit | |OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 2 | |OV-105 Endeavour Palmdale | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML1 | |ML2 | |ML3/STS-40/ET/OV-102 LC39B | ----------------------------------- 20 years ago: 5 May 1971. DSP F2 was launched by Titan 3C from Cape Kennedy. It was the first successful craft in the DSP early warning satellite system, which watches for missile launches from stationary orbit. DSP F2 was stationed over the Indian Ocean. 30 years ago: 5 May 1961. The Mercury spaceship "Freedom Seven", with astronaut Alan B. Shepard aboard, was launched on the suborbital MR-3 mission by a Redstone booster. Shepard became the first U.S. citizen to enter space; the flight lasted 15 minutes. (c) 1991 Jonathan McDowell. Information in this report is obtained from public sources and does not reflect the official views of NASA. .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (205)544-7724 | | Space Science Lab ES65 | uucp: | | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | bitnet : | | Huntsville AL 35812 | inter : mcdowell@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov | | USA | span : ssl::mcdowell | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'