Jonathan's Space Report No. 127 1992 Sep 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mir ---- The Soyuz TM-15 crew, Anatoli Solov'yov and Sergey Avdeev, continue in orbit aboard the Mir complex. They are due to remain aboard the station until January 1993. The Progress M-14 supply craft docked with Mir on Aug 17. Shuttle ------- The STS-47 mission is due for launch on Sep 12. Endeavour was rolled out to pad 39B on Aug 25. Crew for STS-47 are Robert 'Hoot' Gibson (Commander); Curtis Brown (Pilot); Mark Lee (Payload Commander); Jan Davis, Mae Jemison, Jay Apt (Mission Specialists) and Mahmoru Mori (Payload Specialist). Mae Jemison will be the first African-American woman to fly in space. Payloads are the Spacelab J module, with Japanese materials processing experiments, and a GAS Bridge, carrying 9 Getaway Special canisters, also mostly with materials processing experiments. Launches --------- General Electric's GE3000 class Satcom C4 satellite was launched on Aug 31 by Delta from LC17B at Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft carries 24 C-band transponders and will replace an earlier Satcom craft. The Satcom series was started by RCA Americom in 1975 and was continued by GE when it took over RCA. Erratum -------- AC-71 was launched at 2240 UTC on Aug 22. It was destroyed at 2247 UTC. Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 1 STS-52 OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-53 OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 2 OMDP OV-105 Endeavour LC39B STS-47 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/ ML2/STS-47/ET/OV-105 LC39B ML3/STS-52 VAB Bay 1 .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : mcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'