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1985
1985 - 0132.PDF
SPACEFLIGHT Nasa plans hefty Shuttle schedule KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE With only one flightworthy Orbiter, Discovery, in its fleet and still unsure about the problem with Challenger's tiles, Nasa has announced an ambitious schedule of six Shuttle flights by July 9. Obviously, accomplishing this schedule depends in no small part on the situation with Challenger, but Nasa is "confident that the craft will be ready to fly by February 20". Five Shuttle flights took place in 1984. Schedule and crews are (MS=Mission specialist, PS= Payload specialist):— 51C Discovery, January 23 DoD payload on IUS Cdr Mattingly (Nasa) Pilot Shriver (Nasa) MS Onizuka (Nasa) MS Buchli (Nasa) PS Payton (DoD) 51E Challenger, February 20 Telesat 1, TDRS 2 Cdr Bobko (Nasa) Pilot Williams (Nasa) MS Seddon (Nasa) MS Hoffman (Nasa) Sundstrand's Data Logger and SETS II, Severe Environment Tape System, are compiling a remark able record of superior JUST TOUGH exceptionally rugged digital data recorders are small, lightweight j*% • § and hermetically LflCll rAL sealed. They are pgA^p^gpQ designed I^CiWWmJErtw specifically reliability in highly demanding field environments throughout the free world. Both of these DATA LOGGER for the high enviroment applica tions present in virtually all military field operations. SETS II The Data Logger stores up to 500 megabits of data. Its inherent high reliability is enhanced by extensive built-in test, and error detection and correction circuitry. Originally developed for and flown on the Air Launch Cruise Missile, the Data Logger's tape cartridge is also being used successfully on the B-52, the B-1, the Patriot Missile System, and the MK 48 ADCAP and MK 50 ALWT Torpedo systems. SETS II is a compact, lightweight digital data recording system. With a 23 megabit capacity, SETS II can easily handle virtually any tough military field job. This rugged, reliable recorder has been used successfully in such diverse applications as tanks, Space Shuttle, and a host of related high environment data logging programs. Contact Marketing Department, Avionic Systems Division, Sundstrand Data Control, Inc. Redmond, Wa. 98052 Phone (206)885-8366 Sundstrand Data Control, Inc. /^ REDMOND WASHINGTON 98052 |"s™™ unit of Sundstrand Cotporatton ^rL. J* MS Griggs (Nasa) PS Baudry (CNES France) Flight depends on successful IUS deployment on 51C. 51D Discovery, March 19 LDEF retrieval, Syncom 3 Cdr Brandenstein (Nasa) Pilot Creighton (Nasa) MS Lucid (Nasa) MS Fabian (Nasa) MS Nagel (Nasa) PS Jarvis (Hughes) PS Walker (McDonnell Douglas?) 51B Challenger, April 30 Spacelab 3 Cdr Overmyer (Nasa) Pilot Gregory (Nasa) MS Lind (Nasa) MS Thornton (Nasa) MS Thagard (Nasa) PS van den Berg EG and G Corp PS Wang JPL 51G Discovery, May 30 Spartan 1, Telstar 3D, Arabsat, Morelos. Cdr Engle (Nasa) Pilot Covey (Nasa) MS van Hoften (Nasa) MS Lounge (Nasa) MS (Bill) Fisher (Nasa) PS from Saudi Arabia 51F Challenger, Spacelab 2 July 9 Cdr Fullerton (Nasa) Pilot Griggs (Nasa) MS Musgrave (Nasa) MS England (Nasa) MS Henize (Nasa) PS Acton (Lockheed) PS Bartoe (NRL) Orbiter Columbia is still at Rockwell undergoing modi fications and should be delivered to Kennedy Space Flight Centre in the summer, while the new Orbiter, Atlantis, is due at the Cape in April. 60 FLIGHT International, 12 January 1985
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