Jonathan's Space Report Aug 7 1990 (no.47) ---------------------------------------------------- Soyuz TM-10 docked with Mir on Aug 3. The new crew, Manakov and Strekalov, have taken over the station. The Soyuz TM-9 crew, Solov'yov and Balandin, are preparing to return to Earth. The USAF Navstar GPS 21 navigation satellite was launched on Aug 2 by a McDonnell Douglas Delta 6925 from Canaveral. Kosmos-2088, launched by Tsiklon on Jul 30, is a geodetic satellite. ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia VAB Bay 3 | |OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 1 | |OV-104 Atlantis LC39A | | | |ET/SRB stacks | | | |STS-35/OV102 VAB Bay 3 | |STS-38/OV104 LC39A | |STS-41 VAB Bay 1 | ----------------------------------- Mir complex current configuration: (docking port numbers are my own arbitrary assignments; they are in order of use.) Mir port 1: Soyuz TM-9 Mir port 2: Kvant (port 1) Mir port 3: Kvant-2 (port 1) Mir port 4: Kristall (port 1) Mir port 5: (vacant) Mir port 6: (vacant) Kvant port 2: Soyuz TM-10 Kvant-2 SPK port: SPK maneuvring unit? Kristall port 2+: (vacant) ___ / 2 \ \ / ------- | / \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /Kristall \ ______ _____________ | \_ _/ |\_____ __ _| \ | \|___\_1___/__ _____/| |TM10| \/ \| Kvant || Mir \/4-\ / \/ |TM9 | | ___|_/\__/|_2 1||2 ____ 1|\__/\_|___ | |/ | / | ____/\3_/ \| ------ |____________/ _/---- \_ / 1 \ \_Kvant-2_/ | | | | | | | | | | SPK | | []| | \_____/ |-----| (c) 1990 Jonathan McDowell