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