Unofficial Shuttle Launch Schedule - Full List Until About 2010
as of March 1, 2006
Essential Note:
Following the Columbia accident and after the first Return-to-flight Mission,
the following Shuttle launch schedule is still very preliminary.
Next launch scheduled:
STS-121
Discovery (ISS-18), Pad B, Jul 1, 2006 (ISS-18-ULF1.1: Return-To-Flight Test, MPLM, Logistics)
Upcoming Shuttle Missions:
STS-121 Discovery (ISS-18) Pad B Jul 1, 2006 (ISS-18-ULF1.1: Return-To-Flight Test, MPLM, Logistics)
STS-115 Atlantis (ISS-19) Pad B Aug 28, 2006 (ISS-19-12A: ITS P3, PV Module P4)
STS-116 Endeavour (ISS-20) Pad A Nov 16, 2006 (ISS-20-12A.1: ITS P5, Spacehab)
STS-117 Atlantis (ISS-21) Pad B Jan 18, 2007 (ISS-21-13A: ITS S3, PV Module S4)
STS-118 Endeavour (ISS-22) Pad A Mar , 2007 (ISS-22-13A.1: ITS S5, Spacehab)
STS-119 tbd (ISS-23) Pad B , 2007 (ISS-23-15A: PM S6, Solar Array)
STS-120 tbd (ISS-24) Pad A , 2007 (ISS-24-10A: Node 2, Nitrogen Tank)
*** ISS U.S. Core Complete after 10A ***
STS-122 tbd (ISS-25) Pad B , 2007 (ISS-25-ULF2: MPLM, crew rotation)
STS-123 tbd (ISS-26) Pad A , 2007 (ISS-26-1E: Columbus-COF)
The following missions stay under review with scheduled launch dates to be
determined; the dates given are from the pre-Columbia accident time and outdated:
STS-124 tbd (ISS-27) Jan , 2005 (ISS-27-UF-3: MPLM, crew rotation)
STS-125 tbd (ISS-28) Apr , 2005 (ISS-28-UF-4: Canada Hand-SPDM, EDOP)
STS-126 tbd (ISS-29) Jul , 2005 (ISS-29-UF-5: MPLM, crew rotation)
STS-127 tbd (ISS-30) Oct , 2005 (ISS-30-UF4.1: Express Pallet, S3 Attached P/L)
STS-128 tbd (ISS-31) Jan , 2006 (ISS-31-UF-6: MPLM, Batteries, crew rotation)
STS-129 tbd (ISS-32) Mar , 2006 (ISS-32-1J/A: JEM ELM PS, Express Pallet)
STS-130 tbd (ISS-33) Jul , 2006 (ISS-33-1J: JEM PM, JEM RMS)
STS-131 tbd (ISS-34) Oct , 2006 (ISS-34-ULF3: MPLM, crew rotation)
STS-132 tbd (ISS-35) Jan , 2007 (ISS-35-9A.1: SPP Solar Arrays, MTsM)
STS-133 tbd (ISS-36) Apr , 2007 (ISS-36-UF-7: CAM, crew rotation)
STS-134 tbd (ISS-37) Jun , 2007 (ISS-37-2J/A: JEM EF, ELM ES, SPP Solar Arrays
STS-135 tbd (ISS-38) Nov , 2007 (ISS-38-ULF5: MPLM, crew rotation)
STS-136 tbd (ISS-39) Jan , 2008 (ISS-39-14A: Cupola, Express Pallet, EDOP)
STS-137 tbd (ISS-40) , 2008 (ISS-40-20A: Node 3)
STS-138 tbd (ISS-41) , 2008 (ISS-41-16A: US Habitation Module)
STS-139 tbd (ISS-42) , 2008 (ISS-42-17A: MPLM, Lab racks)
STS-140 tbd (ISS-43) , 2009 (ISS-43-18A: US CRV)
STS-141 tbd (ISS-44) , 2009 (ISS-44-19A: MPLM)
The following mission has been suspended:
STS-122 tbd (HST SM-4) Pad A Apr , 2004 (HST SM-4)
NOTE:
This schedule was prepared from various and partly discordant
Nasa and other sources, so it should be taken with appropriate care.
Actual launch dates are set at the Flight Readiness Review
held about two weeks prior to launch.
International Space Station (ISS) flies in an orbit inclined 51.60 degrees
to Earth's equator, while the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is in a 28.47 degrees
inclined orbit.
Orbiter assignments as well as approximate dates are increasingly uncertain with
later times, the later STS numbers are not yet assigned and inofficial guesses.
Remember: Everything in shuttle schedules is subject to continuous revision.
Hartmut Frommert
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