MIRNEWS.360                                            12 JUNE 1997
Progress-M35: This freighter is on schedule for late this month.  If  launch 
and flight will go as planned Progress-M34
 will have to leave the aft docking port (+X-axis) the day before the arrival 
of Pr-M35. Apart from the normal cargo a badly needed component for the 
Antares-transmitter on board MIR has to be delivered by Pr -M35.  Until the 
restoration of MIR's satellite relay system  audio and video downlinks will 
be limited to groundstatio n  passes. 
Progress-M34:  It might be possible that before the departure for decay in 
the Earth's atmosphere the Russians will exe cute an autonomous flight with 
the old freighter to test the TORU system.    Thusfar no confirmation about 
this operati on.  
Radio-amateurisme:  The fact that the MIR-crew is active again on the 
radio-amateur-frequencies confirms that the situa tion on board though not 
fully back to normal ,  improved to such a degree that they got more time to 
relax.  During al most every pass within our range the amateur station in the 
145 mc band is active, mostly in Packet Radio, but also in Phone. Mike Foale 
(call KB5UAC) or the Russians (R0MIR) can be heard on MIR's downlink 145.800 
mc.  (uplink 145.200 mc) .  The crew transmitted a P/R message in which they 
said that they planned to increase P/R traffic.   In another P/R me ssage 
they reported that the Safex-2 transponder in the Priroda Module is 
operational again.  Downlink is 437.950 mc, u plink 435.750 mc. To open the 
transponder a CTCSS tone of 141.3 herz is needed.  During docking operations 
with Soyuz-T M- and Progress-M ships and Shuttles Safex-2 will be OFF to 
avoid interferences on crucial  systems. 
 
Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202
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