Saturday, February 16, 2002

Kosmos 183

  1967-099A


Another OGCh flight took place on 1967 Oct 18, launched by R-36O No. 16L.


Kosmos-183 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1967 Oct 18  1330  Launch by 8K69  KB LC162 
 1332 Stage 2 burn 
 1335  Stage 2 sep  88.90 130 x 315 x 49.63 
 1335  Adapter sep 
 1459?  Deorbit 
 1500?  Retro sep 
 1502? Impact near GTsP4? 

SVH animated series: future excerpts

 Jessica (clears throat): Helen, the integrity of the squad is in trouble thanks to Annie Whitman.

Helen (curiously): How? What did she do?

Jessica: You know what kind of girl she is, don’t you? One night I see her with Bruce Patman,the next with Paul Manning,a third with Rick Andover. I get that she's boy-crazy - so am I - but I feel that one boy-crazy girl is enough for the squad! (takes a deep breath) I personally would like to nominate Cara - we've known her for a long time and she'd be great for our image. Can I count on your vote for her?

Helen: Why,sure thing,Jess. It'd be nice for her to be on the team.

Jessica: We still need a second girl for the team - who's your choice,Hel?

Helen: I think Tamara Chase would be my pick - she's pretty and popular. What about you,Jessica?

Jessica: I'm more into Sandra Bacon - she and Jeannie are besties and she's sporty enough that she'd be good for our image.

 

———-

Jessica: Listen,Maria,if I don't ace the next chem quiz I get put on academic probation. You know what that means,don't you?

Maria: I don't want you off the squad,Jess,nor do any of us. You're gonna have to hit the books,girlfriend!

Patty: You said it,Mare.

Jeannie: C'mon,guys,let's finish this up so Jess can go study.

Jessica: Ready.....okay!

[Practice continues]

Scene 2 - Mr Russo's office

[Winston and Peggy, chemistry TAs for the day, are in the office, rearranging files]

Winston: I never knew this could be hard work,and I make straight As in chemistry! What about you,Peg?

Peggy: Bs mostly. English is my best subject. Wait,what are those?

[She points to a box]

Winston: Student files,it looks like. [He starts digging through the files] Christina Abbot,1983. You related?

Peggy: That's my sister!

Winston (ignoring her): Kenny O'Reilly,1978........Jena Hoeman,1982.........Sara Mitchell,1981........Mark Luther,1980.......Brenda Kelso,1976.........Josie Carson,1980........Heather Birkett,1984........Mike Trost,1979........Nikki Warren,1983......Tom Levy,1981......Emma Chenier,1982........

Peggy: You’ve made your point,Win!

Winston (digging through the files): Hey,look,the old chem practice test from ‘80! This’ll be real useful on Friday’s test!

————

[Caroline leans in close to Mandy]

Caroline: Did you hear Jess and Cara got jobs at the Valley Mall?

Mandy: Why am I not surprised? I know Mr Wakefield's a "penny-pincher" - Jessica's words. She says he's the cheapest guy in town.

Caroline: Thanks for the info,Mandy - pass this on to Anne-Marie Conklin,okay? She'll pass it to Heather Sanford since they're neighbors. Bye!

Scene 12 - an ice cream counter at the Valley Mall

[We hear the busy hum of customers in the background. Annie Whitman,wearing a gold uniform,stands at the counter.]

Annie: Man,I wish I'd get a real job somewhere else - not flipping ice cream for $5 an hour, that gets old real quick.

[Maria Santelli strolls up to the counter]

Maria (delighted): Hey,Annie,fancy seeing you here!

Annie: What can I get you,Ria? Free discount for any SVH student,y'know.

Maria: Strawberry?

Annie: We're out of strawberry,sorry.

Maria: Blueberry - I like blueberry.

Annie: I believe we have that - (checks scoreboard) - yep,we do. One blueberry ice cream coming right up,Ria - cone or dish?

Maria: Dish - I'm expecting Winston.

————

[Elizabeth goes into the event hall,Jessica following]

Dana: And thanks to our work,you're gonna have a totally marvy evening,with your REAL pals! Happy birthday,Carrie!

[Dana places her free arm about Caroline's shoulders. Inside the hall,Caroline sees a nice-looking cake on a table. Quite a few SVH students are milling about the room. 
Her parents stand at either end of the table and Anita is next to their mother.]

Caroline:Thank you,thank you all!

All:Happy birthday,Caroline! [they all join in singing her Happy Birthday to You]

—————-

[Soundtrack: "Believe", sung by Alex Warner]

[Montage:  Sweet Valley scenes, late on a moonless night:

The port,a few unlit fishing boats moored beside the quays

The Dairi Burger,the parking lot empty of cars,a few maintenance lights shining within

The shopping mall,awaiting a new day and new customers

(over the next shot we see the title logo -  Perfect Summer : A Sweet Valley High Summer Special)

The Wakefield residence on Calico Drive, two cars in the parking lot, a single light shining within

A residential street, a few cars passing through on their way to LA or Orange County

Olivia Davidson's Victorian-style house, a bike rack in front and a car waiting by a garage

Fowler Crest at the top of its hill, an automated lawnmower working its extensive gardens

The school, a tour bus idling by the main entrance]

—————

Dana: This is a marvy party,Lila! Great food,great friends,great fun,and great music,y'know?

Lila (smiling tearfully): That means the world to me,Dana. Say,maybe in the new year you and I ought to hang out sometime,okay?

Dana: Of course,Li! Just say when. The Droids and I, we're always down for a big ol' bash.


Friday, February 15, 2002

STS-108 (Endeavour)

 2001-054A


UF-1 brought up the Ex4 crew and returned the Ex3 crew. UF-1 will return three biotech lockers delivered in 1999 and deliver four new biotech lockers and four lockers with a fluid physics experiment and SAMS. These go in the lab module EXPRESS racks.

The P6 beta gimbals had shown spikes in power consumption, and so an EVA was planned to install thermal blankets to increase protection for them.

Prelaunch mass predictions are given below (initial docked mass with ISS 249 tonnes).

 

Stage  Mass  
Post- 
MECO  116550 kg 
OMS-2 114647 kg 
NC1  112989 kg 
RV  111437 kg 
DK  111437 + 137547 kg 
Pre-UDK 109473 + 138307 kg  
UDK  109473 kg 
PRE-DO 109085 kg 

Rendezvous went smoothly; it took longer than usual to damp out relative motion after soft docking.


STS-108 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Oct 24   Move to VAB/1 from OPF/1 
2001 Oct 31   Roll to LC39B 
2001 Nov 29   Scrub T-11h at Progress issue 
2001 Dec 4   Scrub T-5min WX 
2001 Dec 5  2219:28  Launch  
 2221:32  SRB sep 
 2221:42  OMS ASS  
 2222:33  OMS ASS CO 
 2227:54  MECO 
 2228:16  ET sep  58 x 230 x 51.6  
 2257  ET apogee  
 2257:14  OMS-2 1:49 51m/s  
 2259:02  OMS-2 CO  225 x 230 x 51.6 
 2331?  ET reentry 75 km at 35S 160W 
 2359:22  PLBD open begin  89.06 222 x 234 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 6  0003  PLBD open complete 

0133:27 OMS 3 NC1 (NH?) T+3:14 mass 114692 kg 1:41 
 0135:08  OMS 3 CO 
   91.05 273 x 377 x 51.6 
 1726:08  OMS-4 NC2  
 1726:27  OMS-4 CO 
2001 Dec 7 0033  NC3 (NPC) 1m/s RCS 91.08 274 x 380 x 51.6 
 1611:50 OMS-5 NC4 burn  91.97 360 x 381 x 51.6 
 1612:50  OMS 5 CO 
 1718  20 km to ISS, go for TI 
 1745  TI  92.07 368 x 383 x 51.6  
 1851  MC3 
 1858  1 km away 
 1900s MC4 
 1914 -Rbar 180m 
 1930  On Vbar at 100m 
 1942  40m  92.10 370 x 384 x 51.6 
 2003:26  Docking 
 2010  Prepare to hard dock 
 2051  Hard dock 
 2243  HO  92.08 370 x 383 x 51.64 
2001 Dec 8  1548  RMS uncradle 
 1614:10  RMS grapple Raffaello  92.09 370 x 383 x 51.6 
 1644  Raffaello unlatched 
 1701  Raffaello unberth 
 1755  Raffaello berth on Unity 
 1809:20  RMS ungrapple 
 1825  RMS recradle 
  13 kg of GN2 to Quest 
2001 Dec 9  0011  Seats installed; EX4 on ISS crew 
 1511:40 Reboost 
 1739   92.16 372 x 388 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 10  1736  Begin depress 
 1739  At 5 psi 
 1743  End leak check, resume depress 
 1747? Depress EVA-1 EV1 Godwin,EV2 Tani 
 1747:58  AL end depress 
 1749  HO 
 1753  Batt power 
 1801  TC open 
 1803  Egress EV1 
 1814  Egress EV2  92.15 372 x 387 x 51.6 
 1843  Ride RMS to P6 
  Climb to BMRRM work site 
 1910 Install port thermal blankets on BMRRMs 
 2010 Install stbd thermal blankets on BMRRMs 
 2030  Fail to engage P6 gimbal latch 
  Retrieve S-band trnasponder blanket 
  Pick up tools for 8A flight at Z1 
 2142  EV2 ingress 
 2150Ingress EV1 
 2157HC 

2205:16  Repress 
2001 Dec 11    92.13 373 x 384 x 51.6 
 1619:40  Reboost 
 1714   92.22 373 x 392 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 12  1522:32 Reboost 
 1748   92.36 377 x 402 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 14    
 1922:43 RMS grapple MPLM 
 2118? Unberth from Unity CBM  92.29 374 x 399 x 51.6 
 2244? Reberth MPLM in bay 
 2257:00 Ungrapple MPLM 
2001 Dec 15  1316  HC to ISS 
 1455:40  COLA burn 20min (4th reboost of mission) 
 1515  COLA complete, 1 km raise 
 1728:25  Undocking from PMA-2 
 1753  At 126m on vbar, begin flyaround 
 1807  On +rbar 
 1822  On -vbar, sep-1 burn 
 1829  On -rbar, at 380m and opening  92.28 383 x 390 x 51.6 
 1839  1.1km range, 2m/s? 
 1852  Sep-2 burn at 2.5km 10m/s? 
 2329:28  OMS-6 
 2329:43  OMS-6 CO 
2001 Dec 16  1356  RCS check in progress 
 1502:34  Deploy Starshine-2  92.03 357 x 390 x 51.6 
 1851:37  OMS-7 
 1851:47  OMS-7 CO 
2001 Dec 17  1416  Begin PLBD close 
 1418:55  PLBD closed 
 1648:13  OMS DO 93m/s  91.85 353 x 376 x 51.6  
 1651:21  OMS DO CO  88.64 37 x 376 x 51.6  
 1723:15  Entry 
 1755:12  Landed KSC RW15 11:19:35:42 
 1755:23  NGTD 
 1756:13  WS 

Monday, February 11, 2002

Molniya 336

 1989-094A


Molniya-3 F38 (N36) was launched on 1989 Nov 28.


Molniya-3 No. 46 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1989 Nov 28  1002 Launch by 8K78M  PL 
  BVGD sep 
  GO sep 
  T+4:46 Blok A sep 
  T+4:56 KhO sep 
  T+8:46 Blok-I MECO 
 1010  T+8:50 Blok-I sep  
  T+53:16 BOZ burn 
 1055  T+53:56 BOZ sep 
  ML burn 
  T+56:46 ML MECO 
 1058  T+56:54 ML sep   
1989 Nov 28    92.38 211 x 570 x 62.8 (C) 
1989 Nov 28  1200   735.61 628 x 40602 x 62.8 
1989 Dec 3    735.67 637 x 40595 x 62.9 
1989 Dec 3  1200   716.86 635 x 39673 x 62.8 
1993 Jul End of stationkeeping 
1993 Nov  End of ops 
2000 May 19   Reentered 

Sunday, February 10, 2002

Kosmos 154

  1967-032C


The second 7K-L1 spacecraft, 11F91 No. 3P (L-1 No. 3) was launched on 1967 Apr 8. Chertok reports that a circumlunar flight was planned.

The Proton third stage delivered the L-1 and its Blok-D upper stage to a suborbital trajectory and the first Blok-D burn made low parking orbit. The SOZ ullage motors were jettisoned prematurely and the Blok-D stage was not restarted for the second burn (which would have come after 1 day in orbit).

To ensure the third stage falls in the Pacific rather than on Japan, we can either assume a flat trajectory at D ignition with a -500 km perigee or a slightly rising trajectory with a -1000 km perigee.


Kosmos-154
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1967 Apr 8  0900:33 Launch by Proton-K  KB LC81 
 0905Stage 3 burn 
 0909  Stage 3 sep  -500? x 190 x 51.5 
   -1000? x 200? x 51.5 
 0910?  Blok-D burn 
 0912?  orbit insertion  88.55 185 x 221 x 51.50 
1967 Apr 8   SOZ jettison 
1967 Apr 9?  0900?  Blok-D failed to fire 
1967 Apr 10  1700   88.37 180 x 208 x 51.52 
1967 Apr 13   End of transmissions

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