Subject: MIRNEWS.398
From: "C.M. vd Berg" <[email-masked]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:15:31 -0500

MIRNEWS.398                        16 DECEMBER 1997

Progress-M36:    

This freighter will undock from MIR on 17.12.1997 at 0602UTC.  After the
undocking the Russian-German experiment with the observation satellite
Inspektor will take place. 

Inspektor: 

On 17.12.97 the Inspektor will be launched from Progress-M36 for a number
of inspectionflights.   The separation from Pr-M36 : 0735UTC.

Immediately after the undocking the Inspektor will make a flight around
Pr-M36 and transmit images from the freighter to a computer on board MIR.  
Solovyov will steer the Pr-M36 and the Inspektor with the system TORU. 

On 18.12.1997 Inspektor will   fly around the MIR to make  images of the
outside of the complex. 

 Plans with the Progress-M36:  This freighter will not return to MIR for a
redocking but decay in the atmosphere soon after the deployment of
Inspektor.  
 
Progress-M37: The launch of this new freighter from Baykonur is on schedule
for 20.12.1997. 

Rendez vous and docking with the MIR will take place on 22.12.1997. 

Chris van den Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.