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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 708 draft 2015 Jan 12 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 42 continues with commander Barry Wilmore, FE-1 Aleksandr Samokutyaev, FE-2 Elena Serova,
FE-3 Anton Shkaplerov, FE-4 Samantha Cristoforetti, and FE-5 Terry Virts.
Soyuz TMA-14M is docked at Poisk; Soyuz TMA-15M is docked at Rassvet; Progress M-25M is docked at Pirs;
ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre is docked at Zvezda.
Dragon CRS-5 (SC7) was launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan 10 into a 206 x 353 km x 51.6 deg orbit.
The 9700 kg spacecraft carries 1823 kg of internal cargo and the 494 kg CATS lidar experiment
from NASA-GSFC in the trunk; CATS will be installed on the Kibo External Facility.
Inside Dragon are two PlanetLabs Flock-1d' cubesats and the AESP-14 1U cubesat from Brazil's
space agency AEB and the ITA technical institute. On Jan 12 Dragon was grappled by the SSRMS arm at 1054 UTC
and berthed on the Harmony module at 1354 UTC.
The Falcon 9 first stage performed a flyback attempt to land around 360 km downrange at circa
78W 31N. The stage made a 'hard' landing on the ASDS (Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship); it was
apparently destroyed, but did not cause serious damage to the ship.
RRTV-SM
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China's Reentry Return Test Vehicle Service Module departed the Earth-Moon L2 region on Jan 4 at 1500 UTC,
arriving in a 200 x 5300 km lunar orbit at 0700 UTC on Jan 11. Following two further lunar orbit
burns on Jan 12 and 13 it is now in a 200 x 200 km orbit around the Moon- orbit inclination has not been
announced.
Beagle 2
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The UK Mars probe Beagle 2 was never heard from after it entered the
Martian atmosphere on 2003 Dec 25. It has now been discovered on the
surface in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images at 90.4295E, 11.5265N
(position measured by Doug Ellison from the released image), apparently
intact and with at least one solar panel deployed.
MUOS 3
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The US Navy MUOS 3 communications satellite was launched into geotransfer orbit by an Atlas V 551
rocket on Jan 21. MUOS 3 has a mass of around 6800 kg.
Erratum
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The FY satellites are operated by China's National Satellite Meteorological Centre
(Guojia weixing qixiang zhongxin), established in 1971.
Table of Recent (orbital) Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
km km deg
Dec 3 0422 Hayabusa-2 ) H-IIA 202 Tanegashima Y1 Space probe 76A S40319 245 x -50912 x 29.9
Shin'en-2 ) Comms tech 76B S40320 245 x -50912 x 29.9
DESPATCH ) Art satellite 76C S40321 245 x -50912 x 29.9
PROCYON ) Space probe 76D S40322 245 x -50912 x 29.9
MASCOT ) 76 A08308 Attached to S40319
Minerva II-1a ) 76 A08305 Attached to S40319
Minerva II-1b ) 76 A08306 Attached to S40319
Minerva II-2 ) 76 A08307 Attached to S40319
SCI ) 76 A08309 Attached to S40319
DCAM-3 ) 76 A08310 Attached to S40319
Target Marker 1) 76 A08311 Attached to S40319
Target Marker 2) 76 A08312 Attached to S40319
Target Marker 3) 76 A08313 Attached to S40319
Target Marker 4) 76 A08314 Attached to S40319
Target Marker 5) 76 A08315 Attached to S40319
Dec 5 1205 Orion EFT-1 Delta 4H Canaveral SLC37B Spaceship test 77A S40329 -37 x 5809 x 28.8
Dec 6 2040 DirecTV-14 ) Ariane 5ECA Kourou ELA3 Comms 78B S40333 35778 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 76W
GSAT-16 ) Comms 78A S40332 35777 x 35793 x 0.1 GEO 55E
Dec 7 0326 CBERS 4 Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan LC9 Imaging 79A S40336 742 x 751 x 98.5 1030LT SSO
Dec 10 1933 Yaogan 25 ) Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Sigint 80A S40338 1089 x 1097 x 63.4
Yaogan 25 fu xing 1) Sigint 80B S40339 1091 x 1097 x 63.4
Yaogan 25 fu xing 2) Sigint 80C S40340 1090 x 1098 x 63.4
Dec 13 0319 USA 259 Atlas V 541 Vandenberg SLC3E Sigint 81A S40344 2157 x 38204 x 62.8
Dec 15 0016 Yamal 401 Proton-M/Briz-M Baykonur LC81/24 Comms 82 S40345 35786 x 35787 x 0.0 GEO 90E
Dec 18 1837 O3b FM9 ) Soyuz ST-B CSG ELS Comms 83D S40351 8062 x 8068 x 0.0
O3b FM10 ) Comms 83A S40349 8063 x 8068 x 0.0
O3b FM11 ) Comms 83B S40349 8062 x 8068 x 0.0
O3b FM12 ) Comms 83C S40350 8062 x 8068 x 0.0
Dec 19 0443 Kondor-E No. 2 Strela Baykonur LC175 Radar Imager 84A S40353 498 x 501 x 74.7
Dec 23 0557 IPM Angara A5 Plesetsk LC35/1 Vehicle test 85 S40355 36155 x 39089 x 0.3
Dec 25 0301 Lotos-S No. 802 Soyuz-2-1B Plesetsk LC43/4 Sigint 86A S40358 900 x 910 x 67.1
Dec 26 1855 Resurs-P No. 2 Soyuz-2-1B Baykonur LC31/6 Imaging 87A S40360 330 x 471 x 97.3 1150LT
Dec 27 0322 Yaogan 26 Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan LC9 Imaging 88A S40362 485 x 491 x 97.4 1030LT
Dec 27 2137 Astra 2G Proton Baykonur LC200/39 Comms 89A S40364 35783 x 35789 x 0.1 GEO 21E
Dec 31 0102 Fengyun 2-08 Chang Zheng 3A Xichang LC2 Weather 90A S40367 35770 x 35800 x 2.3 GEO 100E
Jan 10 0947 Dragon CRS-5 Falcon 9 v1.1 Canaveral SLC40 Cargo 01A S40370 403 x 411 x 51.6
Jan 21 0104 MUOS 3 Atlas V 551 Canaveral SLC41 Comms 02A S40374? 3800?x 35786?x 19.1
Table of Recent (suborbital) Launches
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Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km
Dec 2 0449 Agni RV Agni 4 Wheeler I. Test 300?
Dec 11 1911 NASA 36.295US Black Brant IX White Sands Solar X-ray 338
Dec 13 RVs ? DF-41? Taiyuan Test 1000?
Dec 16 Target Blue Sparrow?? F-15, Med. Sea ABM Target 100?
Dec 18 0400 CARE/LVM3-X GSLV-3 Srikarikota SLP Test flight 126
Dec 26 0802 RV x 4? Yars Plesetsk Test 1000?
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