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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 852 draft 2025 Nov 19 Somerville, MA, USA
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ISS
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Expedition 73 continues.
On Nov 25 the Canadarm-2 robot arm unberthed Cygnus NG-23, holding it away from ISS to provide
clearance for an upcoming Soyuz docking.
Chinese Space Station
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Shenzhou 22 was launched on 2025 Nov 25, to provide a new ferry ship
to the CSS after Shenzhou 20 was declared suspect. It docked at the Tianhe
forward port at 0750 UTC Nov 25.
Starlink launches
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Starlink Group 6-78 (29 Ku sats) was launched on Nov 21 from Kennedy.
Starlink Group 6-79 (29 Ku sats) was launched on Nov 22 from Canaveral.
Starlink Group 11-30 (28 Ku sats) was launched on Nov 23 from Vandenberg.
Rocket Lab launches
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On Nov 20 Rocket Lab launched an Electron from Mahia with a secret commercial payload,
later revealed to be the third BlackSky Gen3 imaging satellite. It was placed in a 42 deg
orbit.
CALT launches
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On Nov 21 CALT launched a CZ-3B from Xichang with the Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 21 satellite.
TJS is a cover name for several unrelated series of military geostationary and elliptica orbit satellites.
This one appears to be a successor to TJS 13, in Molniya orbit.
Angara
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On Nov 25 Russia launched an Angara-1.2 from Plesetsk. It placed three Rodnik military communications sats in orbit.
Nuri
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On Nov 26 South Korea launched the fourth Nuri rocket from the Naro Space Centre,
placing the CAS-500-3 satellite and twelve cubesats in orbit.
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
Nov 13 2055 ESCAPADE Blue New Glenn Canaveral LC36 Mars probe 260A 200 x 3970000 x 29.5
ESCAPADE Gold Mars probe 260B 200 x 3970000 x 29.5
Nov 14 0304 Viasat-3F2 Atlas V 551 Canaveral LC41 Comms 261A 12251 x 23673 x 6.0
Nov 15 0308 Starlink Group 6-89 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 262 257 x 267 x 43.0
Nov 15 0644 Starlink Group 6-85 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 263 258 x 267 x 43.0
Nov 17 0521 Sentinel-6B Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E EO Sci 264 1308 x 1327 x 66.0
Nov 19 0012 Starlink Group 6-94 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 265 261 x 270 x 43.0
Nov 19 0401 Shi Jian 30A/30B/30C Chang Zheng 2C Jiuquan Tech 266 511 x 528 x 51.8
Nov 20 1243 BlackSky Global-33? Electron Mahia LC1A Imaging 267 468 x 477 x 42.0
Nov 21 0339 Starlink Group 6-78 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 268 263 x 272 x 43.0
Nov 21 1055 TJS 21 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang LC2 Sigint? 269A 206 x 40083 x 51.1
Nov 22 0753 Starlink Group 6-79 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 270 263 x 272 x 43.0
Nov 23 0848 Starlink Group 11-30 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 271 256 x 268 x 53.2
Nov 25 0411 Shenzhou 22 Chang Zheng 2F Jiuquan Spaceship 272A 374 x 385 x 41.5
Nov 25 1342 Kosmos-2597/98/99? Angara-1.2 Plesets Comms 273 1491 x 1504 x 82.5
Nov 26 1613 CAS500-3 Nuri Naro Tech 274
E3-TESTER-1 Tech 274
Bicheon Micrograv 274
Sejong-4
ETRISat
COSMIC
JACK-003
JACK-004
PERSAT01
Hana/Duri
INHA-RoSAT
K-HERO
SPIRONE
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Nov 5 0935 Mk 12/21 RV? Minuteman 3 Vandenberg LF09/10? Op. Test 1300? Kwajalein
Nov 7 0335 RV Hwasong-7? Taegwan,N Korea Test 200? Sea of Japan
Nov 12 0405 MAPHEUS 16 Red Kite/Red Kite Kiruna Microgravity 267 ESRANGE
Nov 18 1300 VAN HASTE Wallops LA0C Hypersonic 200? Atlantic
Nov 18 1006 GHOST Terrier I.Malemute Andoya Atmos. 268 Norwegian Sea
Nov 19 1400 SL-18 SpaceLoft-XL Spaceport America Micrograv 116 White Sands?
Nov 23 0952 RENU 3 Oriole IV Andoya Atmos. 470 Norwegian Sea
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