Jonathan's Space Report
No. 840 draft 2024 Nov 18 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 72 continues with Suni Williams (ISS commander), Barry Wilmore, Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner,
Don Pettit, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Progress MS-27 undocked from the Poisk module at 1253 UTC Nov 19 and reentered over the S Pacific at about
1651 UTC the same day.
Progress MS-29 was launched on Nov 21 and docked with the Poisk module at 1431 UTC Nov 23.
Starlink launches
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Starlink Group 6-66 (24 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Nov 21 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 9-13 (20 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Nov 24 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-1 (23 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Nov 25 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 6-76 (24 sats) was launched from Kenedy on Nov 27 to a 43 deg orbit.
Falcon 9 GTO launches
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New Space India Ltd.'s Ka-band GSAT-20 comms satellite was launched by Falcon 9 from Canaveral on Nov 18.
CALT launches
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CALT launched a CZ-2C from Taiyuan on Nov 24 with two Siwei Gaojing commercial radar satellites for Superview.
Kineis
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Rocket Lab launched an Electron from Mahia on Nov 24 with five more IoT satellites for Kineis.
Starship
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Starship flight 6 was launched on Nov 19. The booster was waved off from
a recovery attempt (due to a tower issue) and made a divert burn to a
water splashdown. The ship reached an estimated 8 x 190 km x 26.2 deg
orbit, the first time Starship has had positive perigee. A Raptor
in-flight restart during descent raised the orbit to about 50 x 228 km,
followed by entry over the Indian Ocean and splashdown on the ocean
surface.
Zhuque-2E
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On Nov 27 Landspace launched the first Zhuque-2E, an uprated version of the methalox Zhuque-2.
The rocket carried two Guangchuan test satellites.
Table of Recent Orbital (and near-Orbital) Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Oct 4 1125 Cert-2 Vulcan VC2S Canaveral SLC41 Test 179A 735 x -237885 x 26.7
Oct 7 1452 Hera Falcon 9 Canaveral SLC40 Probe 180A 190 x -36368 x 34.2
Oct 8 1025 CySat-1 ISS, LEO Tech 98067WZ 408 x 421 x 51.6
Oct 8 1035 DORA ISS, LEO Tech 98067XA 410 x 420 x 51.6
Oct 10 1350 HGW 03 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Comms 181A 198 x 35774 x 28.4
Oct 13 1225 Starship 30 Starship Starbase OLP1 Test U04 -15 x 213 x 26.2
Oct 14 1606 Europa Clipper Falcon Heavy Kennedy LC39A Probe 182A 180 x -32078 x 32.9
Oct 15 0610 Starlink Group 10-10 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 183 280 x 291 x 53.2
Oct 15 0821 Starlink Group 9-7 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 184 277 x 287 x 53.2
Oct 15 1106 Qianfan Jigui 02 (01 to 18) Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Comms 185
Oct 15 2345 Gao Fen 12-05 Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Radar 186A 594 x 600 x 97.9
Oct 18 2331 Starlink Group 8-19 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 187 280 x 291 x 53.2
Oct 20 0513 OneWeb L20 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 188 591 x 595 x 86.5
Oct 22 0010 Tianping-3A(01) Chang Zheng 6 Taiyuan Calib 189A 555 x 566 x 97.6
Tianping-3B(01) Calib 189B
Tianping-3B(02) Calib 189C
Oct 23 0109 Yaogan 43-03-01 Chang Zheng 2C Xichang Comms? 190A 490 x 502 x 35.0
Yaogan 43-03-02 Comms? 190B
Yaogan 43-03-03 Comms? 190C
Oct 23 2147 Starlink Group 6-61 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 191 284 x 291 x 43.0
Oct 24 1713 Starshield Group 1-4 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Imaging? 192 300 x 310 x 70.0
Oct 26 2147 Starlink Group 10-8 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 193 290 x 301 x 53.2
Oct 29 2027 Shenzhou 19 Chang Zheng 2F Jiuquan Spaceship 194A 382 x 392 x 41.5
Oct 30 1207 Starlink Group 9-9 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 195 285 x 295 x 53.2
Oct 30 2110 Starlink Group 10-13 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 196 269 x 278 x 53.2
Oct 30 2211 Hwasong-19 RV Hwasong-19 Chongdong Test U05 -6243 x 7687 x 42
Oct 31 0751 Kosmos-2579 Soyuz-2-1a Plesetsk LC43/4 Imaging 197A 338 x 498 x 97.6
Nov 4 0648 Kirameki 3 H3-22S Tanegashima Comms 198A 396 x 35415 x 24.8
Nov 4 2318 Ionosfera-M No. 1 Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat Vostochniy PU1S Sci 199A
Ionosfera-M No. 2 Sci 199B
Rideshare sats
Nov 5 0229 Dragon CRS-31 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Cargo 200A 193 x 210 x 51.6
Nov 5 1054 E-Space 4? Electron Mahia LC1B Comms 201B 640 x 652 x 97.9
Nov 7 2019 Starlink Group 6-77 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 202 282 x 290 x 43.0
Nov 9 0339 PIESAT 2-1 Chang Zheng 2C Jiuquan Radar? 203A 516 x 537 x 97.5
PIESAT 2-2 Radar? 203B
PIESAT 2-3 Radar? 203C
PIESAT 2-4 Radar? 203D
Nov 9 0644 Starlink Group 9-10 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 204 284 x 295 x 53.2
Nov 11 0403 Shiyan 26A Lijian-1 Jiuquan Imaging? 205A 513 x 532 x 97.5
Shiyan 26B Imaging? 205B
Shiyan 26C Imaging? 205B
Jilin-1 GF05B Imaging 205
Jilin-1 PT02A03 Imaging 205
Yunyao-1 31 to 36 GNSS-RO 205
Xiguang-1-04 Imaging 205
Xiguang-1-05 Imaging 205
Tianyan-24 Imaging? 205
Oman Zhineng Yaogan 1 Imaging 205
Nov 11 1722 Koreasat-6A Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 206A 388 x 35333 x 26.2
Nov 11 2128 Starlink Group 6-69 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 207 281 x 289 x 43.0
Nov 13 2242 Hai Yang 4-01 Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan EO Sci 208A 632 x 645 x 98.0
Nov 14 0523 Starlink Group 9-11 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 209 282 x 292 x 53.2
Nov 14 1321 Starlink Group 6-68 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 210 277 x 284 x 43.0
Nov 15 1513 Tianzhou 8 Chang Zheng 7 Wenchang Cargo 211A 201 x 334 x 41.5
Nov 17 2228 Optus X (TD7) Falcon 9 Kennedy SLC39A Comms 212A 425 x 49656 x 17.8
Nov 18 0553 Starlink Group 9-12 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 213 280 x 289 x 53.2
Nov 18 1831 GSAT-20 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 214A 214 x 59510 x 27.7
Nov 19 2200 Starship 31 Starship 1.0 Starbase OLP1 Test U06 50 x 228 x 26.3
Nov 21 1222 Progress MS-29 Soyuz-2-1a Baykonur LC31 Cargo 215A 171 x 195 x 51.6
Nov 21 1607 Starlink Group 6-66 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 216 286 x 293 x 43.0
Nov 23 0525 Starlink Group 9-13 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 217 280 x 290 x 53.2
Nov 24 2339 Siwei Gaojing 2-03 Chang Zheng 2C Taiyuan Radar 218A 494 x 519 x 97.4
Siwei Gaojing 2-04 Radar 218B
Nov 25 0335 Kineis 3A-3E Electron Mahia 1B Comms 219 637 x 638 x 98.0
Nov 25 1002 Starlink Group 12-1 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 220 320 x 331 x 43.0
Nov 27 0200 Guangchuan-01 Zhuque-2E Jiuquan Comms 221A
Guangchuan-02 Comms 221B
Nov 27 0441 Starlink Group 6-76 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 222 284 x 291 x 43.0
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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At about 0300 UTC Nov 21, Russia launched an Orezhnik intermediate
range ballistic missile (IRBM) from Kapustin Yar against the Ukrainian city of Dnipro,
with MIRV reentry vehicles carrying either conventional or possibly dummy warheads.
The US DoD reports that the missile is a derivative of the 15Zh67 Rubezh,
but is not an ICBM as was claimed by Ukraine.
New Shepard flight NS-28, on Nov 22, carried Austin Litteral (space
traveler 711), Marc Hagle (614), Sharon Hagle (613), Hank Wolfond (712),
J.D. Russell (713), and Emily Calandrelli (714) to a 107.0 km apogee.
Calandrelli became the 100th woman to reach space.
Date UT Payload Rocket Site Mission Apogee Target
Oct 1 1309 SL-15 SpaceLoft XL Spaceport America Micrograv 100? White Sands?
Oct 1 1630? Warhead Shahab-3? (x180) S Shiraz Weapon 200? Israel
Emad?
Ghadr-110?
Kheibar Shekan?
Fattah-1?
Oct 20 1824 Aftershock II Aftershock Black Rock Test 143 Black Rock
Oct 23 1525? NS-27 New Shepard West Texas Test 101? West Texas
Oct 24 2310 Target? Terrier Oriole? Wallops Target? 100? Atlantic
Nov 6 0701 GT251 RV Minuteman 3 Vandenberg LF10 Op.Test 1300? Kwajalein
Nov 8 SL-20 SpaceLoft XL Spaceport America Tech 100? White Sands?
Nov 8 Warhead Palestine-2 Sanaa? Weapon 200? Israel
Nov 10 2136 VORTEX 2A Black Brant 9 Andoya Atmosphere 358 Norw. Sea
Nov 10 2138 VORTEX 2B Terrier Imp.Orion Andoya Atmosphere 144 Norw. Sea
Nov 11 Warhead Palestine-2 Sanaa? Weapon 200? Israel
Nov 11 0838 MAPHEUS 15 Red Kite/IM ESRANGE Microgravity 309 ESRANGE
Nov 14 0230 S-520-34 S-520 Uchinoura Tech 217 Pacific Ocean
Nov 21 0300? Warheads (6?) Oreshnik Kapustin Yar Weapon 500? Dnipro
Nov 22 1530 NS-28 New Shepard West Texas Tourist 107 West Texas
Nov 24 0600 HIPPO HASTE Wallops I. Hypersonic 300? Atlantic
Nov 26 0500 MASER 16 VSB-30 ESRANGE Microgravity 256 ESRANGE
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