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- From: mcdowell@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
- Subject: "Jonathan's Space Report, No. 137"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.223244.11770@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:32:18 GMT
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- Jonathan's Space Report
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- No. 137 1992 Dec 22 A happy winter solstice to all my readers
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- Space Shuttle Discovery landed at 2043 UTC Dec 9 on runway 22 at Edwards
- AFB. The payload deployed by Discovery has not yet been allocated a USA
- number; it will probably be USA-88. (Navstar 29, launched Dec 18, has
- been named USA-87.) The Molczan team of observers have reported that on
- Dec 13 the payload was in a 364 x 380 km orbit inclined 57 degrees;
- apparently it maneouvred on Dec 15 to a new orbit.
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- The next launch is STS-54 in January; Endeavour will deploy a TDRS comsat.
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- The Titan 4 launched on Nov 28 has been confirmed as the 404 variant.
- Here is the Titan 4 launch history:
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- No Date Variant Site Upper stages/payloads
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- 1 1989 Jun 15 402 CC LC41 IUS/DSP F14
- 2 1990 Jun 23 403 CC LC41 Advanced NOSS 1
- 3 1990 Nov 13 402 CC LC41 IUS/DSP F15
- 4 1991 Mar 8 405 V SLC4E LACROSSE 2
- 5 1991 Nov 8 405 V SLC4E Advanced NOSS 2
- 6 1992 Nov 28 404 V SLC4E Advanced CRYSTAL?
- ? 1993? 401 CC Centaur/?
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- Kosmos-2223, launched on Dec 9, appears to be a fifth generation
- imaging recon satellite, probably replacing Kosmos-2183.
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- Kosmos-2224, launched on Dec 17, is a geostationary satellite; it is
- probably either a communications or an early warning satellite.
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- Another Rockwell Navstar navigation satellite was launched on Dec
- 18 by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Corp. using a Delta from
- Cape Canaveral.
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- Launches:
- Date Payload Rocket From
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- Dec 1 2248 Superbird A1 Ariane 42P Kourou 84A
- Dec 2 0155? Molniya-3 (43) Molniya Plesetsk 85A
- Dec 2 1324 Discovery STS53 Shuttle Kennedy 86A
- Dec 2 1918 USA-88? - Discovery 86B
- Dec 9 1116? Kosmos-2223 Soyuz Baykonur 87A
- Dec 17 1300? Kosmos-2224 Proton Baykonur 88A
- Dec 18 2216 Navstar GPS 29 Delta 7925 Canaveral 89A
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- Reentries:
- Nov 22 Resurs-500 [Landed in Pacific Ocean]
- Dec 9 Discovery [Landed at Edwards AFB]
- Dec 12 Kosmos-2164
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- Current Shuttle Processing Status
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- Orbiters Location Mission
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- OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 2 STS-55
- OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-56
- OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP
- OV-105 Endeavour LC39B STS-54
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- ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks
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- ML1/
- ML2/STS-54/ET/OV-105 LC39B
- ML3/STS-55 VAB Bay 3
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