Jonathan's Space Report
No. 857 draft 2026 Jun 4 Bromley, UK
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Update:
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ISS
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Expedition 74 continues.
Progress MS-34, docked to the Zvezda module, fired its engines at 0500 UTC Jun 10 to reboost the ISS orbit.
Starlink launches
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Starlink Group 10-43 (29 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 4 from Canaveral.
Starlink Group 17-43 (21 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 7 from Vandenberg along with two Starshield satellites
Starlink Group 10-35 (29 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 8 from Canaveral.
Starlink Group 17-44 (24 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 11 from Vandenberg.
Starlink Group 10-54 (29 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 12 from Canaveral.
SAST launches
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On Jun 4, SAST and CGWIC launched a CZ-6A from Taiyuan with eighteen Qianfan internet satellites (Group 11).
CALT launches
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On Jun 5, CALT and China Commercial Rocket launched a CZ-8 from Hainan with eighteen Qianfan internet satellites
(Group 12)
On Jun 11 CALT launched a CZ-5 from Wenchang with the Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing 25 (Comms Technology Sat 25).
Commercial Chinese launches
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On Jun 9, Landspace launched a Zhuque-2E with the first direct-to-cell Qianfan satellite and
a satellite for China Mobile.
H3-30
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JAXA launched the first H3-30 on Jun 12. In contrast to the previous H3-22S and H3-24W models, H3-30
has no solid boosters, but has 3 instead of 2 main engines in the core stage. The main payload
was a 1500 kg Vehicle Evaluation Payload, VEP-5, which remained attached to the upper stage
and was deorbited with it after the deployment of six small satellites in orbit.
The satellites are - Umitsubame (PETREL), an imaging sat from Science Tokyo;
BRO-22, a radio monitoring satellite from the French company Unseen Labs; HORN-L and HORN-R,
from Japan's BULL Co., demonstrators for a deployable drag sail; STARS-X, a satellite from
Shizuoka university which will deploy a 1 km tether; and VERTECS from Kyushu Tech, with an
astronomy experiment to measure the diffuse visible background light radiation.
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
Jun 1 0840 Qianfan Jigui 08-01, 08-02 Chang Zheng 12B Jiuquan Comms 121 1020 x 1047 x 89.0
Jun 3 1540 Starlink Group 17-47 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 122 257 x 271 x 97.3
Jun 4 1026 Starlink Group 10-43 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 123 245 x 246 x 53.1
Jun 4 1139 Qianfan Jigui 11-01 to 11-18 Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Comms 124
Jun 5 0634 Qianfan Jigui 12-01 to 12-18 Chang Zheng 8 Hainan Comms 125
Jun 7 0424 Starlink Group 17-43 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 126 311 x 326 x 97.3
USA 608, USA 609 Unk 126
Jun 8 1013 Starlink Group 10-35 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 127 254 x 257 x 53.2
Jun 9 0823 Qianfan DTC 01 Zhuque 2E Jiuquan Comms 128 395 x 406 x 55.0
Zhongguo Yidong 02 Comms 128
Jun 11 0730 TJS 25 Chang Zheng 5 Wenchang Sigint? 129A
Jun 11 1505 Starlink Group 17-44 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 130
Jun 12 0054 VEP-5 H3-30 Tanegashima Y Tech 131
Umitsubame Imaging 131
STARS-X Tech 131
BRO-22 Sigint 131
VERTECS Astron 131
HORN-L Tech 131
HORN-R Tech 131
Jun 12 1237 Starlink Group 10-54 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 132
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
May 31 0633 SubOrb Exp. 5 Red Kite/Red Kite Kiruna Micrograv 260 ESRANGE
Jun 11 0800? CURVEBALL Electron Wallops MARS Hypersonic 200? Atlantic
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