MIRNEWS.223    16 AUGUST 1994

MIR-operations:

These days MIR's passes for our position take place during the
night-hours. During the Perseid meteorite streams no nightly
radio-traffic on VHF, so obviously nothing happened. This in
contradiction to the same period in 1993 when several particles
collided with the MIR-station. In a few days we can expect
radiotraffic during the evening hours again.

PROGRESS-M24:

This freighter will be launched from Baykonur on
25.08.94 at 1425UTC. If all goes according to the plan liste
ners in Western-Europe can receive radiosignals on the known
frequencies (166.140, 166.130, 165.874 and 922.755 + or - for
Doppler) 3 hours later.

Spacewalks (EVA-s):

Instead of 4 only 2 EVA's will be made by
Malenchenko and Musabayev. These EVA-s are scheduled for 8 and
12.09.94. Purpose: transfer of solarpanels from Kristall to
Kvant-1.

SPEKTR:

The launch of this Module-O has been put back again.
Now there is word that the launch will take place in may 1995.
Undoubtedly this will also mean that the launch of Priroda
(Module-E) will be put back either.

American flights to MIR:

The schedule for these flights might
be changed due to the delay of the launch of Spektr. No
further details yet.

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.