Subject: mirnews.385
From: "C.M. van den Berg" <[email-masked]>
To: "dirk rensink" <[email-masked]>, "Dave Larsen" <[email-masked]>, "Jonathan McDowell" <[email-masked]>, "Friends Partners Space" <[email-masked]>, "Mats Rieschel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:16:25 +0200

MIRNEWS.385                   22 SEPTEMBER 1997

MAINCOMPUTER FAILURE:

On 22.09 at 0123UTC the crew  was waked up by the alarmsignal: Check the
SUD (attitude control).  When they did they saw that the Ts.V.M.-1, the
maincomputer  had switched itself off.  Solovyov reported this to TsUP
during the pass over here in orbit 66214, 0130-0140UTC.  The first system
to be switched was again the oxygen generator Elektron. 

During the pass in orb. 66215, 0305-0316UTC,  S. reported that initially
the attitude of the complex was not so good. The comples is flying the so
called free drift. The supply from the solar panels decreased to a level of
200 Amperes.

Chris Vandenberg, NL-9165/A-UK3202