Jonathan's Space Report

May 1 1990 (no.37)
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The Hubble Space Telescope is in its Orbital
Verification phase. The High Gain Antenna #2 has
been disentangled from its power cable.

Discovery landed at Edwards on Apr 29.
Columbia rolled out to Complex 39A on Apr 22. Its cargo
is the Astro-1 Spacelab payload and the BBXRT x-ray
telescope. Launch is due for May 16.

Anatoli Solov'yov (Komandir) and Aleksandr Balandin (Bortinzhener)
continue in orbit aboard the Mir complex. The Soyuz TM-9 transport
and the Progress M-3 freighter are currently at the station. 
Solov'yov and Balandin have been in space for 78 days. Progress M-4
is being prepared for launch.

Kosmos-2074, a Soviet Navy navigation satellite, was launched
on Apr 20.

A Soviet Molniya-1 comsat was launched on Apr 26.

(c) 1990 Jonathan McDowell
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