Subject: Mirnews and more to come
From: "Hans G. Janssen" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 10:14:21 +0100

Many bulletins to come soon because of the docking (Hans G. <)

MIRNEWS.318       30 JULY 1996
  
  Progress-M32: The launch of this freighter is now on
  schedule for 31.07.1996 at 20.00.04 UTC  (For Moscow
  summertime 4 seconds after midnight on 1.08.96). 
      The decision to give the green light for this launch
  has been taken on 29.07.1996 during a meeting of the
  statecommittee. The first attempt to launch the Pr-M32
  failed due to a  tank pressurization problem. During the
  inspection afterwards a problem was revealed in one of
  the engines of a booster. The possibility to change that
  engine has been considered but finally the decision was
  taken to replace the whole booster.   
       
      If all goes according to plan we might be able to
  hear the signals of the beacon- and telemetrytransmitters
  of Pr-M32 at abt. 3 hrs after launch in the 922, 166 and
  165 mc bands.  
  
      The estimated docking time of Pr-M32  at MIR:
  2.08.1996 at abt. 2159UTC.
  
  Soyuz-TM24: The launch of this ship with the releaf crew
  and the French spacionaute is now on schedule for
  20.08.1996. We hope to get an eventual confirmation or
  additional information by CNES during this week.     
  
  Chris v.d. Berg,  NL-9165/A-UK3202