Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!news.nd.edu!dante!steven From: steven@dante.helios.nd.edu Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Unofficial Space Shuttle Launch Manifest Message-ID: <1990Nov16.151455.20484@news.nd.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 15:14:55 GMT Sender: Steven S. Pietrobon Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Lines: 48 There have been some requests in sci.space.shuttle for a space shuttle launch manifest. NASA is preparing one at the moment, but in the mean time, readers may find this unofficial manifest I have prepared useful. This manifest makes use of an older manifest issued earlier in the year as well as any other information I have been able to gleen from Aviation Week and Space Technology, Flight International, sci.space and sci.space.shuttle. I would say that the manifest is reliable up to STS-40 (and even then I could be wrong). Poor STS-37 has been bumped so many times that NASA may decide to fly it in the May slot. However, STS-43 carries a high priority TDRS satellite so GRO will probably have to wait. Columbia is scheduled for about a years worth of maintenance after its April flight. I have assumed that NASA will delay STS-42 (IML-1) and STS-45 (ATLAS-1) until 1992 for flights on either Columbia (when it returns) or Endeavour (when it starts flying). Only Columbia and Endeavour are (will) be able to fly the 10 day missions originally scheduled for IML-1 and ATLAS-1. Alternatively, NASA may shorten these Spacelab missions to 7 or 8 days and fly them at the end of 1991. The launch dates I have given are from the earlier official manifest. Since there are only 7 launches in 1991 now (according to AW&ST) instead of 8, the launch dates in 1991 are likely to spread out. STS Date Orbiter Payload ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 12 Dec. 90 Columbia ASTRO-1, BBXRT-1 (Broad Band X-Ray Telescope) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 1 Feb. 91 Discovery CIRRIS (AFP-675), IBSS, STP-1 44 4 Mar. 91 Atlantis DSP (DoD early warning satellite) 40 4 Apr. 91 Columbia SLS-1 (Spacelab Life Sciences) 43 16 May 91 Discovery TDRS-E (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) 37 17 Jun. 91 Atlantis GRO (Gamma Ray Observatory) 46 22 Aug. 91 Discovery TSS-1, EURECA-1 (European Retrievable Carrier) 47 30 Sep. 91 Atlantis SL-J (Spacelab Japan) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASTRO Ultraviolet Astronomy ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science CIRRIS Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle DSP Defence Support Program IBSS Infrared Background Signature Survey IML International Microgravity Laboratory STP ?? TSS Tethered Satellite System -- Steven Pietrobon, steven@ndsun.ee.nd.edu Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA