MIRNEWS.183    6 AUGUST 1993

Exchange of freighters:

Progress-M19:

The launch date of this freighter for the MIR
station has been put back for the 2d time. Now this launch
from Baykonur is planned for 10.08.93 at 2216UTC (for the
Russians already on 11.08.93 at 0116 TsUP time). If all goes
according to the plan Pr-M19 will dock to MIR at abt. 0000UTC
on 13.08.93. So a few minutes after the first pass of the MIR
complex on (for us still) 12.08.93 2350-2356UTC, pass in
orbit 42799. Pr-M19 will dock to the forward port (transition
section - P.Kh.O.). This port is still occupied by the Pr-M18.

Progress-M18:

This ship will separate from MIR and decay in
the atmosphere if the launch of Pr-M19 is successful.

Radio-amateur traffic new crew:

The new crew has not been
heard with amateur traffic (packet radio or phone) on the
known amateur frequencies during passes within our range.
The crew asked TsUP for a computerprogram to clean the over-
loaded memory of their computer, which contains a lot of cor-
respondence and documents of the previous crew.
So possibly they will resume packet-radio after the deletion
of all superfluous files. During a packet QSO with TsUP on
143.625 mc MIR used the call R0MIR.

Spacewalks (EVA-s):

The 3 EVA-s planned for September 1993
have been cancelled. The present crew (14th Main expedition)
will not carry out any EVA-s.

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