Subject: Mirnews.291 From: Chris Vandenberg 23 February 1996
From: Charles Radley <[email-masked]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 17:34:24 EST

Apologies if this is a repeat, but I believe I never posted it to the list.

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MIRNEWS.291        23 February 1996

Soyuz-TM23 linked up with the MIR-complex:

The S-TM23 approached and docked automatically with the system Kurs. S-TM23
docked at the aft axial dockingport (+X, Kvant-1) on 23.02.1996 at 14 hrs 20
mins 36 secs UTC. During the last part of the approachoperation Altair
(Kosmos-2054) was in use for communications. After images of the MIR-station
seen by a camera on board of S-TM23 a datascreen and the dockingport
could be seen. Until a few minutes before the docking Onuf
rienko could be hear on 121.750 mc reporting distances, appro achspeeds,
deviations around the X-, Y- and Z-axes until LOS for our position at=
 1417UTC.=20
During the following pass for our position (orb. 57216, 1546-1554UTC) the
crews had checked the airseal and the newcomers prepared the opening of the
hatches to enter the complex via the Kvant-1. The old crew prepared a direct
TV-link to trans mit images of the entrance (at abt. 1600 UTC) of Onufrienko
and Usachov.
So 5 men are now on board of the spacestation. In the period until the=
 return
to earth of Gidzenko, Avdeyev and Reiter with the S-TM22 on 29.02.96 they=
 will
transfer their duty  to the new crew, they will have to do many exercises=
 with
the Chibis suit to be prepared for their return to gravity conditions and=
 they
will have to check the systems of their ship, which has to be reliable for
100% . The last days they already were
working on some temperature- and humidity problems in the BO=
 (lifecompartment)
of that ship. During checks of the S-TM22
systems we can expect radiotraffic on 121.750 mc.  =20

Communications: Radiotraffic from MIR with TsUP near Moscow nowadays begins
before MIR is in range of the groundstation Shcholkovo near Moscow. This has
been made possible by the use of a groundstation near Munchen (Germany) with
the callsign Scope. Often Reiter has been speaking directly with that
station.

Progress-M30: This freighter decayed over a designated area in the Pacific
East of New-Zealand on 22.02.1996 at 1458UTC. The Pr-M30 had not been=
 equipped
with a VBK (Ballistic Return
Capsule).

-!- Maximus 2.01
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