willner@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Willner) (10/17/88)
Here's a complete shuttle manifest and some additional launch dates.
The information was extracted from an article in CANOPUS (See
companion posting.) dated 88/09/01. The schedule is being posted
separately from the usual CANOPUS postings because of its general
interest. The following comments are from CANOPUS.
1990 will be a busy year for space science with Hubble, Astro, the
Gamma Ray Observatory, Space Life Sciences-1, Ulysses, and ATLAS-1
missions being flown. The first two unclassified military Shuttle
payloads will also be flown, one carrying infrared telescopes and the
other carrying the Starlab laser targeting Spacelab mission.
In the manifest given below, a number in the first column denotes a
Space Shuttle mission, and an E denotes an expendable launch vehicle.
For clarity, only expendables carrying space science payloads are
listed.
STS DATE PAYLOAD/COMMENTS
26 9/88 TDRS-C. Resumes missions.
27 11/88 DOD.
29 2/89 TDRS-D; also carrying SSBUV-1 (Solar Spectral
Backscatter UV)
30 4/89 Magellan (Venus radar mapper)
E 5/89 Cosmic Background Explorer
28 7/89 DOD
33 8/89 DOD
34 10/89 Galileo (Jupiter orbiter/probe + inner solar system
mini-tour)
32 11/89 Syncom IV launch; LDEF retrieval
36 12/89 DOD
31 2/90 Hubble Space Telescope
E 2/90 ROSAT (Roentgen Satellit; West Germany)
35 3/90 ASTRO-1 + BBRXT (Broad Band X-ray Telescope)
37 4/90 Gamma Ray Observatory
38 5/90 DOD
40 6/90 Space Life Science-1
E 6/90 Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
39 7/90 CIRRIS (Cryogenic IR Radiance Instrument for
Shuttle), IBSS (Infrared Background Survey of
Shuttle; Spacelab-2 IR telescope on SPAS platform);
Teal Ruby (IR aircraft tracking system)
41 9/90 Starlab (DOD laser targeting tests)
42 10/90 Ulysses (international solar polar mission)
43 11/90 TDRS-E
44 12/90 ATLAS-1 (Atmospheric and Terrestrial Laboratory
Applications in Space)
45 1/91 Tethered Satellite System 1; GPS navigation satellite
46 2/91 DOD
47 4/91 IML-1 (International Microgravity Laboratory)
48 5/91 WAMDII (Wide-Angle Michaelson Imaging
Interferometer), GPS, EURECA (European Retrievable
Carrier)
(E 5/91 planetary alternative launcher)
E 6/91 Small Explorer-1
49 7/91 Spacelab J (U.S./Japan)
50 8/91 Spacehab-1, LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite),
INMARSAT
E 8/91 Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
51 9/91 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
E 9/91 Small Explorer-2
E 10/91 Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
52 12/91 Spacelab D-2 (West Germany)
53 12/91 ASTRO-2, EUERCA retrieval
E 1/92 Small Explorer-3
54 2/92 Shuttle Radar Lab-1; first flight of replacement
orbiter (OV-105)
55 3/92 USML-1 (U.S. Microgravity Lab-1; extended duration
56 4/92 SHEAL (Shuttle High-Energy Astrophysics Laboratory);
GEOSTAR, ORFEUS (unidentified SPAS payload)
57 5/92 Advanced Communications Technology Satellite, USMP-1
(U.S. Micrgravity Platform)
58 6/92 ATLAS-2, Satcom
E 6/92 Small Explorer-4
59 7/92 Space Life Sciences-2 (extended duration planned)
60 7/92 Industrial Space Facility-1
E 7/92 Geotail ISTP (International Solar-Terrestrial Program)
61 8/92 DOD
62 9/92 DOD
E 9/92 Mars Observer
63 10/92 IML-2
64 10/92 Spacehab, Geostar commercial navigation satellite
65 11/92 TDRS-F
66 12/92 DOD
E 12/92 Wind ISTP
67 1/93 ATLAS-3; CRISTA (SPAS payload, not identified)
E 1/93 Small Explorer-5
68 2/93 Industrial Space Facility
69 3/93 Shuttle Radar Lab
70 4/93 EURECA-2, USMP-2 (U.S. Microgravity Platform)
71 5/93 DOD
72 6/93 SFU retrieval (not identified), GEOSTAR-3
E 6/93 Polar ISTP
E 6/93 Small Explorer-6
73 7/93 USML-2 (extended duration mission)
74 8/93 Spacehab 3, AAFE (Aeroassist Flight Experiment)
75 9/93 INMARSAT-2, Garvity Probe-B1
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