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[jamsat-news:730] Jonathan's Space Report 31Dec97
Jonathan's Space Report No345 1997Dec31 Cambridge, MA
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Shuttle and Mir
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Progress M-37 (7K-TGM No. 236) was launched from Baykonur on
Dec 20, and
brought new supplies to the Mir station. It docked at 1022
UTC
on Dec 22.
Recent Launches
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Intelsat 804 was launched on Dec 22 by an Ariane 42L
rocket. The satellite, built for the International
Telecommunications
Satellite Organization by Lockheed Martin Telecommunications,
will
be placed in geostationary orbit by its liquid apogee engine.
Eight small 40 kg Orbcomm communications satellites were
placed in low orbit
on Dec 23 by a Pegasus XL rocket with a HAPS hydrazine fourth
stage.
The L-1011 carrier aircraft took off from Wallops Island and
released the rocket over the Atlantic. Orbcomm is a
subsidiary of
Orbital Sciences, who also make the Pegasus rocket.
Early Bird, Earth Watch Inc's 3-m commercial remote sensing
satellite,
was launched on Dec 24 by an STT Kompleks Start-1 launch
vehicle from the
Russian Svobodniy (2-GIK) launch site.
A Krunichev Proton-K launch from Baykonur on Dec 24 placed an
Energiya
Blok DM3 upper stage in low perigee orbit with the Asiasat 3
payload
attached. An hour later the Blok DM3 ignited to enter a
geosynchronous
transfer orbit, but 6 hr 20min after launch the second burn
of the Blok
DM3 shut down after only one second, stranding Asiasat in
elliptical
transfer orbit. Asiasat 3 was a Hughes HS-601 comsat for Hong
Kong based
Asia Telecommunications.
The launch of Iridium 42 and 44 by a Chinese CZ-2C rocket on
Dec 8
left the second stage and several pieces of debris in low
transfer orbit.
However, another object, 1997-77H/25084, was cataloged in an
orbit
similar in height to the Iridium payloads, but more
elliptical.
This object must be associated with the SD (Smart Dispenser)
upper
stage; the SD itself is meant to deorbit after releasing the
Iridiums,
to minimize space debris, but perhaps this last burn of the
SD did
not go right and it ended up still in orbit. Alternatively,
77H may
be some kind of adapter that got released.
Table of Recent Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site
Mission INTL.
DES.
Nov 2 1225 SCD-2A VLS Alcantara
Rem.sens. FTO
Nov 3 0405 Sputnik-40 Mir,LEO
Demo 58C
Nov 6 0030 GPS 38 Delta 7925 Canaveral LC17A
Navsat 67A
Nov 8 0205 TRUMPET 3? Titan Centaur Canaveral LC41
Signal int 68A
Nov 9 0134 Iridium 38 ) Delta 7920 Vandenberg
SLC2W Comsat 69E
Iridium 39 )
Comsat 69D
Iridium 40 )
Comsat 69C
Iridium 41 )
Comsat 69B
Iridium 43 )
Comsat 69A
Nov 12 1700 Kupon Proton Baykonur LC200
Comsat 70A
Nov 12 2148 Sirius 2 ) Ariane 44L Kourou ELA2
Comsat 71A
Cakrawarta 1 )
Comsat 71B
Nov 18 1115 Resurs-F1M Soyuz-U Plesetk
Rem.sens. 72A
Nov 19 1946 Columbia Shuttle Kennedy LC39B
Spaceship 73A
Nov 21 2105 Spartan 201 OV-102, LEO
Astronomy 73B
Nov 27 2127 TRMM ) H-2 Tanegashima
Rem.sens. 74A
Hikoboshi )
Technology 74B
Orihime )
Dec 2 2252 JCSAT-5 ) Ariane 44P Kourou ELA2
Comsat 75A
Equator-S )
Space sci 75B
Dec 2 2310 Astra 1G Proton Baykonur
Comsat 76A
Dec 3 1215 AERCam/Sprint OV-102, LEO
Technology
Dec 8 0716 Iridium 42 ) CZ-2C/SD Taiyuan
Comsat 77A
Iridium 44 )
Comsat 77B
Dec 8 2352 Galaxy 8I Atlas 2AS Canaveral LC36B
Comsat 78A
Dec 9 0717 Kosmos-2347 Tsiklon-2 Baykonur LC90
Recon 79A
Dec 15 1540? Kosmos-2348 Soyuz-U Plesetsk
Recon 80A
Dec 17 0737 X-Mir Inspector Progress,LEO
Technology 58D
Dec 20 0845 Progress M-37 Soyuz-U Baykonur
Cargo 81A
Dec 20 1316 Iridium 45 ) Delta 7920 Vandenberg SLC2
Comsat 82A
Iridium 46 )
Comsat 82B
Iridium 47 )
Comsat 82C
Iridium 48 )
Comsat 82D
Iridium 49 )
Comsat 82E
Dec 22 0016 Intelsat 804 Ariane 42L Kourou ELA2
Comsat 83A
Dec 23 1911 Orbcomm A1 ) Pegasus XL/H Wallops
Comsat 84A
Orbcomm A2 )
Orbcomm A3 )
Orbcomm A4 )
Orbcomm A5 )
Orbcomm A6 )
Orbcomm A7 )
Orbcomm A8 )
Dec 24 1332 EarlyBird Start-1 Svobodniy
Rem Sens. 85A
Dec 24 2319 Asiasat 3 Proton-K/DM3 Baykonur
Comsat 86A
Current Shuttle Processing Status
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Orbiters Location Mission Launch Due
OV-102 Columbia LEO STS-87
OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 2 STS-91 May 28
OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP
OV-105 Endeavour LC39A STS-89 Jan 22
MLP/SRB/ET/OV stacks
MLP1/
MLP2/RSRM65 VAB Bay 3 STS-90
MLP3/RSRM64/ET-90/OV-105 LC39A STS-89
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