Subject: Mirnews from Chris
From: "Hans G. Janssen" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:28:27 +0100

To Jonathan form Chris by Hans G. <

MIRNEWS.333                          13 NOVEMBER 1996

  Progress-M33: The delayed launch of this freighter is now
  on schedule for 19.11.1996 at 2320UTC   (for Moscow then
  already 20.11.1996).
  Pr-M33 will bring  food, water, fuel, post, spareparts,
  etc to the station. The crew is anxiously waiting for
  containers for the collection of 'human waste' .  The
  available containers are as good as full and the crew has
  to 'improvise' measures to keep this situation under
  control.  They did not complain about this problem, but
  have no  appreciation for  the fact that  TV-stations in
  Russia  made it public as this caused anxiety among their
  relatives.  There also has been  a publication about the
  fact that their  vacuumcleaner was out of order.  Korzun
  denied this. Jokingly he supposed that someone produced
  this desinformation to get more money  from the taxpayers
  for spaceflight.  
  
  Communications:  MIR is passes take place during the
  dayhours and a lot of radiotraffic can be monitored. 
  During the 5th pass within our range MIR is no longer in
  range of Russian trackingstations. Now and then the
  tracking station of ESA, Oberpfaffenhofen, relays MIR-
  TsUP communications during that pass.   The packetradio
  installation is regularly in use for radio-amateur
  traffic on 145.800 mc.  This P/R installation now and
  then is used for service traffic on  143.625 mc.    This
  is not always successful and then TsUP used the old RTTY
  installation as an alternative. 
  
  Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202