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>From: kd2bd@ka2qhd.UUCP (John Magliacane)
>Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.space
>Subject: * SpaceNews  20-May-91 *
>Keywords: NOAA-12 Lauched, Shuttle Launch, Mir News
>Message-ID: <438@ka2qhd.UUCP>
>Date: 17 May 91 14:11:43 GMT
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SB NEWS @ AMSAT < KD2BD $SPC0520
* SpaceNews  20-May-91 *



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                          MONDAY MAY 20, 1991


SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA.  It
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* NOAA-12 LAUNCHED *
====================
NOAA-12 was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on
14-May-91 at 15:52:00.357 UTC.  After the "text book" launch, the
spacecraft was given an official launch designator of 1991-032A and
a NORAD catalog number of 21263.  The spacecraft is in a circular
orbit having an apogee of 828 km and perigee of 811 km.  Its beacon
transmits on 136.770 MHz.

[Information via ZL4HG]


* STS-40 LAUNCH ADVISORY *
==========================
NASA managers set May 22, 1991, as the launch date for orbiter Columbia
on Shuttle Mission STS-40/Spacelab Life Sciences-1.  Columbia will be
placed in a 42 degree inclination, 129 nautical mile high circular orbit.

The launch window on May 22 extends from 8:00 AM (1200 UTC) until 10:00 AM
EDT (1400 UTC), with the mission projected to last just over 9 days.  A
launch on May 22 at the opening of the window would put landing at Edwards
Air Force Base, Calif. on May 31 at approximately 11:51 AM EDT (1551 UTC).

The crew for STS-40 is Commander Bryan D. O'Connor, Pilot Sidney M.
Gutierrez, Mission Specialists James P. Bagian, Tamara E. Jernigan
and Margaret Rhea Seddon and Payload Specialists F. Drew Gaffney
and Millie Hughes-Fulford.

[Information via NASA]


* MIR NEWS *
============
According to reliable sources, a British YL, Helen, will be joining the
cosmonauts aboard the Soviet space station Mir on May 21, 1991.  She has
been assigned the call sign GB1MIR/U and will be conducting a mission
similar to the recent Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) on STS-37.
Helen will be talking almost exclusively with school children in Great
Britian using Amateur Radio.  To commemorate this Soviet/Anglo space
mission, special event stations have been set up around Great Britian with
the call signs GB0JUNO, GB1JUNO,...GB8JUNO (GB0JUNO has been heard on
AO-13).  At the present time Helen is in the Soviet Union receiving last
minute training along with instruction from Boris Stepanov, UW3AX, on
the operation of the amateur radio station aboard MIR.  It is not known
at this time if GB1MIR/U will only operate special event stations or if
there will be general QSOs.  Also, no operating schedule has be announced.

In other news concerning MIR and U2MIR, a 70cm transceiver has been donated
by ICOM and it is expected that Musa will soon be heard on a downlink of
432.675 MHz FM.  It is not known whether this new addition will be for
packet or voice.  Once GB1MIR/U arrives, more information will be
forthcoming.

[Story via ANS]


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