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 ...tellite
on a string'
heads for USA
Aeritalia's Tethered Satellite, TSS1, left Italy on 14 No
vember for the Kennedy Space
Center where it will be prepared
for integration in the payload of
the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS 46
mission later next year.
The satellite will be trailed
from Atlantis by a 20km cable to
demonstrate the tethered-satel-
lite technique and to conduct
outer-atmospher...
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 ...ked to the
forward
multiple
docking port of
the Mir, to
which also
attached are the
Kvant 2 and
Kristall (facing)
modules. The
Mir core
module is in the
centre
This is the target for the Space Shuttle Atlantis/STS 11 on 12 June —
the androgynous docking system. When the Atlantis docks, the Kristall
module will have been moved to a new position on the multiple docking
port, placing ...
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 ...ng and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) programme has so far suffered surprisingly poor results for such a major project.
The US space agency needs a smooth
deployment of the latest spacecraft from the
Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS43 this
month to restore the balance.
The first TDRS limped into orbit, using
its manoeuvring thrusters after an upper-
stage failure in 1983, and then suffered...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
NEWS IN BRIEF
• SPACEHAB CONTRACT
NASA has awarded Spacehab
a $54 million contract to pre
pare Space Shuttle Spacehab
mid-deck extension laborato
ry modules for its missions to
the...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Atlantis launch date set
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
SPACE SHUTTLE Atlantis mission STS101 has been re
scheduled for 18 May, causing fur
ther setbacks to the International
Space Station.
The latest launch date was
agreed by NASA to allow Atlas IIA,...
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 ...ISS crew may be forced to leave
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE INTERNATIONAL Space Station (ISS) Exped
ition Crew 1 could be forced to
abandon the station and return to
Earth in their Soyuz TM space
cra...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
First American flies
to board the Mir
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
NASA ASTRONAUT Nor man Thagard became the
first American to board a Russian
space station on 16 March after
the docking of t...
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 ...earch for gamma
rays — "the messengers of creation". Tim Furniss reports on the
latest Shuttle mission.
Mission specialists Jay Apt and Jerry Ross were on hand to unstick an antenna as the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis pre
pared to unberth NASA's Gamma Ray Ob-
servator (GRO) — at 17t the largest civilian
spacecraft deployed by Shuttle.
Mission plans called for GRO's 21m-span
solar arrays, ...
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 ... in
the 1992 budget.
AXAF will be the third of
NASA's series of Great Obser
vatories, following the Hubble
Space Telescope now in orbit
and the Gamma Ray Obser
vatory, to be launched from the
Space Shuttle Atlantis in
November. •
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 ...sting's
Marcopolo 1, a Hughes
HS373 direct television
broadcast satellite, was
launched by McDonnell
Douglas Delta 4925 booster
from Cape Canaveral's pad
17B on August 27.
ATLANTIS ROLLS OUT
Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled
out to launch pad 39B at
Kennedy Space Center on
August 29, ready for its sched
uled October 12 launch on
mission STS32 to deploy the
Galileo Jupiter probe.
SOVIET...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
THIS IMAGE OF the 3,160km-diame-ter Europa, taken at a distance of
677,00km, highlights the colour varia
tion of the predominantly water-ice
crust. It has been speculated that an
ocea...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Delayed TDRS finally
deployed by Atlantis
BY TIM FURNISS
The fifth TRW-built, $150 million Tracking and Data
Relay Satellite (TDRS), was
safely deployed from the Space
Shuttle Atlan...
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 ...tlantis lands: Nasa names crews
US Space Shuttle Atlantis
ended the classified STS 27
mission with a touchdown at
Edwards Air Force Base, Cali
fornia, on December 6, after a
flight lasting more than four
days. STS 27 was the seco...
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 ...OPERATIONS: SPACEFLIGHT
Hydrogen dispersion systems
improve Space Shuttle safety
No stopping Soviet Zenit launches
1991 repair boost
for Zenit site
The Soviet Union is to re sume Zenit booster
...
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 ...treasurer at Hughes
Electronics, Los Angeles,
California. He was assistant
treasurer for Chrysler.
• SPACE CREW TO MAKE HISTORY
Crew members for the historic docking and joint operations of
the Space Shuttle Atlantis/STSl1 with the Russian Mir 1 space
station, to begin with the STS71 launch on 24 June are: (front, left
to right) Vladimir Dezhurov, Robert Gibson, Anatoli Solovyov,
mission ...
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 ...SHOW GUItU-
Swiss Aerospace Group
Synairgie
Syseca
Systemes & Audio Frequences
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3F13
Ultra Electronics 3F1 Empty Space
TAG Aeronautics
Tailleur Industrie 2 H8
Tampa Bay international Trade...
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 ...SPACCFUGHT
Shuttle catches up
The Shuttle Atlantis
is the first orbiter to
have a glass
cockpit display
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
NASAi SPACE SHUTTLE is catching up with the space age. Honeywell Space...
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 ...
Mrrestoration work continues
after Atlantis returns to Earth
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
WORK TO RESTORE the Russian Mir space station
to full working order continued
after the departure of die seventh
Space Shuttle Atlantis mission,
which delivered cargo and equip
ment, including a new computer.
The Atlantis landed at the
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on
6 October following a ten-dav mis
sio...
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 ...essful
installation of die 75m (245 ft)-span
solar arrays.
Attention now turns to further
enlargement of the ISS with the
addition of the 14,000kg(30,8401b)
Destiny US laboratory module by
the Space Shuttle Atlantis, which is
due for launch on 18 January on
mission STS 98.
This launch date could be affect
ed, however, by an investigation
into the failure of an explosive
separation car...
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 ...ISS service and non-ISS missions.
The Space Shuttle flight backlog
for next year is building.
The delay in the Zvezda launch
will lessen the gap (previously two
months) before the flight of the
Space Shuttle Atlantis STS101 to
equip the module for operations.
This flight has been pushed into
late next January or early February
from an original November launch
Repairs continue to the wir...
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