Jonathan's Space Report No. 481 2002 Jun 13, Garching bei Munchen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- Endeavour docked with the Station at 1625 UTC on Jun 7. The Leonardo MPLM module was attached to the Station on June 8.On Jun 9, Chang-Diaz and Perrin made a spacewalk from the Quest airlock. It was depressurized at around 1522 UTC and the hatch was opened at 1524 UTC. The suits went to battery power at 1527 UTC. The astronauts installed the PGDF grapple fixture on the P6 truss, stowed some space debris shields on the PMA-1 adapter, and prepared the Mobile Base System (MBS) in the Shuttle cargo bay. The hatch was closed at 2234 UTC and the airlock began repressurization at 2242 UTC. MBS was unberthed sometime around 2220 UTC and docked to the Mobile Transporter at 1304 UTC on Jun 10. On Jun 11 at about 1515 UTC the Quest was depressurized again, with Chang-Diaz and Perrin opening the hatch around the same time and going to battery power at 1520 UTC. During this spacewalk the astronauts completed setting up the MBS system. The hatch was closed at 2016 UTC and Quest was repressurized at 2020 UTC. (While on travel in Europe, I don't have access to NASA TV, so if anyone has more accurate times please let me know. The details presented here are based on press reports and on the excellent coverage on www.spaceflightnow.com. Normal service will be resumed next week.) Recent Launches --------------- A Krunichev Proton-K put a Russian domestic communications satellite in orbit on Jun 10. Ekspress A1R was built by NPO PM and Alcatel for Kosmicheskiya Svyaz, the Russian satcom operator. Table of Recent Launches ----------------------- Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. May 4 0131 SPOT 5 ) Ariane 42P Kourou ELA2 Imaging 21A Idefix ) Amateur radio 21B May 4 0954 Aqua Delta 7920-10L Vandenberg SLC2W Rem.sensing 22A May 7 1700 DirecTV-5 Proton-K/DM3 Baykonur LC81 Comms 23A May 15 0150 Feng Yun 1D ) Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan Weather 24B Hai Yang 1 ) Rem.sensing 24A May 28 1525 'Ofeq-5 Shaviyt Palmachim Imaging 25A May 28 1815? Kosmos-2389 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Navigation 26A Jun 5 0644 Intelsat 905 Ariane 44L Kourou ELA2 Comms. 27A Jun 5 2122 Endeavour ) Shuttle Kennedy LC39A Spaceship 28A Leonardo ) Jun 10 0114 Ekspress A1R Proton-K/DM2M? Baykonur Comms Current Shuttle Processing Status _________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due OV-102 Columbia OPF STS-107 2002 Jul 19 Spacehab OV-103 Discovery OPF Maintenance OV-104 Atlantis OPF STS-112 2002 Aug 22 ISS 9A OV-105 Endeavour ISS STS-111 2002 Jun 5 ISS UF-2 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS6 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@cfa.harvard.edu | | USA | jmcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | | | JSR: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html | | Back issues: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/back | | Subscribe/unsub: mail majordomo@head-cfa.harvard.edu, (un)subscribe jsr | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'