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 ...Winter at the Kennedy Space
Center reawakens the spectre of
Challenger, and the fear that
weather could contribute again to
the loss of a Space Shuttle and its
crew. With Shuttle launches sched
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Cosmonauts to fly Chernobyl mission
BY TIM FURNISS
Three cosmonauts from the Ukraine are to fly on a
Soyuz TM mission to the Mir
space station next year to mon
itor the area around t...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Smoother operations
NASA's Kennedy
Space Center
Shuttle landing
runway has been
modified to reduce
launch delays
TIM FURNISS/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
Space Shuttle launch delays may be reduced by more than 50% because of extensive modifications to the 4,570m (15,000ft)-long grooved-concrete runway
at NASA's Kennedy Space Cent...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Going with the flow
The first US
payloads for the ISS
are being processed
at the Kennedy
Space Center
TIM FURNISS/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
WITH SIX INTERNATIONAL Space Station (ISS) assembly missions sched uled for 1999, and 18 more due to take place between 2000 and 2002, NASAls
Space Station Processing Facility (...
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 ...ver
everything, he says, aware that the loss of a Shut
tle would probably end United Space's business.
NASA will effectively be taking the back seat
— over 3,000 NASA Shuttle jobs will go at the
Kennedy Space Center, following thousands
already lost — and the "...keys to the Shuttle
handed to industry", says one Kennedy engi
neer. Removing NASA from day-to-day Shuttle
operations "...is th...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
No. Date
11 4 Mar
12 9 Mar
13 14 Mar
14 17 Mar
15 24 Mar
March satellite launch log
Spacecraft Type
Molniya Comsat
Cosmos 2181 Navsat
Galaxy 5 Comsat
Soyuz TM14 Manned ferry
A...
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 ..., dumping weight to increase
performance, placing the vehicle centre of
gravity in the correct alignment and decreasing
the landing weight.
The RTLS is designed to allow an intact
landing at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in
Florida, T+2 5 min later, following the loss of an
engine or a systems failure between lift-off and
T+4min 20s, at which time a transatlantic-
landing abort landing b...
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 ...xperienced space
traveller in
history, peers
from an
observation
window on the
Mir 1 core
module. He
returned to
Earth on 22
March, aftei- a
437-day flight
days after its launch from the
Kennedy Space Center.
The Atlantis will remain
docked to the Mir 1 until 17
June, delivering a new two-man
Russian crew. It will return to
Earth with the original Soyuz
TM21 crew, which includes...
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 ...t
of science.
The Shuttle's next trip will be far from a routine trucking job. On 22 January — if all goes according to plan — the Space Shuttle STS42/
Discovery will lift off from Pad 39A at the
Kennedy Space Center on its f4th mission.
Discovery's payload bay will hold a "Spa
celab" pressurised laboratory, in which as
tronauts and scientists will perform the
International Microgravity La...
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 ...IT'S SPACE TRUCKIN' TIME!
Space work has begun.
It's like no work ever done before. It embraces
the urgency of the overnight package shipper, the
tools of the dockworker, the detail of the account...
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 ...ME Corporation • East-West Technology Corporation • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityFlorida • Commercial Space Financing Corporation
HEICO • Inter Contal, Incorporated • Intro Corporation • NASA/Kennedy Space Center • Relli Technology, Inc.
Spaceport Florida Authority • U. S. Airmotive, Inc. • Virtual Languages, Incorporated • Winslow Liferaft Company • Wood Group Turbopower
Florida's Great...
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 ...n stack is built up and integrated with the
payload, and rolled out to Pad 40 or 41. The
latter pad, used for the Titan IV, is the
northernmost on the Cape and is close to the
Shuttle pads at the Kennedy Space Center.
LAUNCH PADS GALORE
Moving down the triangular-shaped sand spit
that is Cape Canaveral, the next operational
pads are No 47, which is used for the launches
of meteorological ...
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 ...rst ballistic missiles, Jupiter, Adas
and Thor. The first satellite was launched on
a Jupiter C, in 1958.
causeway, from the industrial centre, leading to
Merritt Island and the home of the NASA
Kennedy Space Center and its industrial area.
Another causeway from the KSC, this time
across the Indian River, takes you on to US
Highway 1 and the Florida mainland. Titusville
is a major support...
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 ...tle Atlantis on Octo
ber 12. The Galileo Jupiter
orbiter was delivered from the
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
and the Galileo atmospheric
probe from Hughes.
The combined spacecraft is in
the Kennedy Space Center's
Spacecraft Assembly and Encap
sulation Facility 2, and will be
moved to the Vertical Processing
Facility for mating with its IUS
upper stage in late July. The
stacked Gali...
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 ...nenkov,
the factory's general director,
says that the most powerful
engined tested has been the
Energomash RD-7 used in
the Soyuz launcher.
Columbia sets records
THE STSWCohfffdm landed at the Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) in Florida on 17 July after its
flawless 16-day reflight of the
Microgravity Space Laboratory,
with more than 30 high-technolo
gy materials, protein crystal and
other ...
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 ... wins $2.2bn basing deal
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
NASA AND THE US Air Force have awarded a joint
contract to Space Gateway Sup
port (SGS) of Virginia, to provide
base operations from 1 October at
the Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
and Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station, Florida.
The Joint Base Operations Sup
port Contract (JBOSC), which has
a potential value of S2.2 billion over
10 years, will ass...
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 ...se 1, which was de-orbited.
The orbital inclination of these
satellites can be 97.69°, although
the Shuttle payload could only
reach 56.9° inclination due to
launch azimuth constraints from
the Kennedy Space Center,
Florida. The latest launch ap
peared to place the Lacrosse 4 into
a 70° inclination orbit. •
100th Shuttle mission may be delayed by payload problem
AS STS 106 Atlantis is p...
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 ...r as late as
1999. The Mir is "our national
pride and a source of funds from
the West", he says.
Despite the problems, the US
Space Shuttle Atlantis/STSS 1 is
scheduled to be launched from the
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on
12 January to conduct the fifth
Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM).
The STS81 — the first of a
planned eight Shuttle missions in
1997 — will dock at the Mir on 13
Januar...
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 ...
being explosively separated from
the frustum at the top of the same
booster at about T+1 s.
The two images were among
hundreds taken by automatic cam
eras set up close to launch pad 39B
at the Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, by Ralph Morse of
Time/Life. They were discovered
by AbuTaha at Time/Life, New
York, where he was permitted to
examine all the STS 51L launch
photographs and to re...
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 ...ut to
the
bone The Space Shuttle's
budget has been
reduced to its limit,
say NASA
managers.
TIM FURNISS/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
The sudden resignation of Jeremiah Pearson, NASA's Space Shuttle chief, has focused attention on the continued cuts being made to the fleet's operating
budget. Pearson had resis...
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