[JSR] Jonathan's Space Report, No. 815
Jonathan McDowell
jcm at planet4589.com
Mon Jan 16 14:45:45 EST 2023
Jonathan's Space Report
No. 815 2023 Jan 16 Somerville, MA
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Happy new year! This issue marks the 34th anniversary of the first JSR.
International Space Station
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Expedition 68 continues.
On Jan 6 three cubesats were deployed from the J-SSOD-24 deployer: SuryaSat-1
for Surya U in Indonesia, OPTIMAL-1 for ArkEdge Space of Tokyo, and HSKSAT
for Harada Seikei Co. of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka province.
On Jan 9 at 2205 UTC Dragon CRS-26 undocked from IDA-3; at about 0925 UTC
on Jan 11 it jettisoned its trunk section and then fired its deorbit engines
for splashdown near 83.9W 28.1N off Tampa, Florida at 1019 UTC.
The trunk remains in a 200 x 320 km x 51.6 deg orbit.
The IROSA FSE used in the recent IROSA installation spacewalks remains
attached to the MBS POA attachment point on ISS and will be jettisoned
at a later date. Its estimated mass is around 500 kg.
Soyuz MS-22, damaged by a coolant leak, remains docked to the Rassvet
module. Roskosmos has decided to launch Soyuz MS-23 crewless to dock
with the station automatically, and bring Soyuz MS-22 back to Earth,
also crewless. This has been done before - Soyuz-34 was launched without
a crew in Jun 1979 to replace Soyuz-32, which had exceeded its design life
while docked to the Salyut-6 station.
Transporter-6
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SpaceX launched the Transporter-6 mission on Jan 3 placing over 100 satellites in 0930 LTDN SSO.
The larger ( 30 to 300 kg ) satellites were:
Space tugs
ION SCV007 (D-Orbit, Como, Italy)
ION SCV008 (D-Orbit, Como, Italy)
Orbiter SN1 (Launcher, Los Angeles)
Vigoride VR-5 (Momentus, San Jose)
Chimera LEO-1 (EPIC Aerospace, San Francisco)
Skykraft carrier (Skykraft, Canberra)
Satellite phone service
Lynk Tower 3 and 4 (Lynk, Virginia)
Imaging
Newsat-32 (Albania-1) (Satellogic, Uruguay/Argentina)
Newsat-33 (Albania-2)
Newsat-34
Newsat-35
EOS SAT-1 (EOS Data Analytics, San Francisco)
Radar
ICEYE X21, X22, X27 (Iceye, Helsinki)
ADS-B aviation tracking
Skykraft 1,2,3 (Skykraft, Canberra) (deploy from Skykraft carrier)
Space and missile tracking?
Blackjack 1 to 4? (Space Development Agency, US DoD) (unconfirmed)
Smaller satellites (cubesats) were
Planet satellites (3U imaging)
Flock 4y-1 to 4y-36
(Dove 2415, 24a1, 242e, 24b0, 24b4, 24af, 2417, 24ab, 24a8, 24c3,
24a7, 24cf, 24c7, 24b5, 24b3, 24c9, 24c2, 24ce, 24a9, 24ca,
24ba, 24c1, 24bc, 24b9, 24b2, 24c4, 24c8, 24b1, 24bb, 24c0,
24be, 24b6, 24bf, 24cc, 24c5, 24d0).
Spire satellites: (AIS, meteo, ADS-B; 3U?)
Lemur-2-Disclaimer
Lemur-2-Emmaculate (L3C-1)
Lemur-2-SteveAlbers (AIS-1)
Lemur-2-Fuentetaja-01 (AIS-2)
Lemur-2-MMolo (GNSS-3)
Lemur-2-PhilAri (INCUBED PRO, ESA/Luxembourg)
Radio spectrum monitoring satellites:
6U KSF3-A,B,C,D from Kleos (Luxembourg)
6U BRO-8 from Unseen Labs (Rennes)
6U Huygens and Birkeland from NLR (Amsterdam)/TNO (Den Haag)/FFI (Oslo)
AIS maritime monitoring:
6U Sternula-1 with VDEs payload from Sternula (Aalborg)
3U Kelpie-1 with AIS from AAC ClydeSpace (Glasgow) for Orbcomm, to eject from ION
IoT data relay
3U Connecta T1.2 from Plan-S (Ankara)
0.25U SpaceBee 156 to 167 from SpaceX Swarm (San Francisco)
3U Astrocast-0401, 0402, 0403, 0404 from Astrocast (Lausanne), to eject from ION
2P MDQSAT-1A 1 and 1A 2, from Innova Space (Buenos Aires), aboard Orbiter SN1
Meteorology
12U RROCI (Orion Space, Boulder, for Space Force)
Space science
3U Tausat3 (Tel Aviv U.) with particle detector, aboard ION
Technology satellites:
6U GAMA Alpha with 8.5m solar sail (GAMA, Paris)
6U Menut from OpenCosmos (Barcelona) with imager and onboard processing
6U STAR VIBE from Scanway (Wroclaw)
3U Guardian-alpha from Orbital Astronautics (Harwell) with electric propulsion test
6U NSLSat-2 from NSLComm (Tel Aviv) with experimental comms antenna
3U Pushan Alpha from Digantara (Bengaluru) with space weather test payload
Hosted experiment platform:
6U SharedSat-2211 (Platform-2) from Endurosat (Sofia)
Test and student satellites:
6U STAR SPHERE 1 from Sony and Tokyo U. (Tokyo) with cameras for use by public
6U FUTURA-SM2 from SpaceMind (Imola, Italy), aboard ION
3U FUTURA-SM1 from SpaceMind (Imola, Italy), aboard ION
3U Zeus-1 from Qosmosys (Singapore) (eject from VR-5)
2U PolyITAN-HP-30 from KPI (Kyiv) with heat pipe experiment
2U KuwaitSat-1 from Kuwait University (Kuwait)
1U BDSAT-2 from CEITEC (Brno)
1U PROVES-Yearling from Cal Poly Pomona (Pomona, California), aboard Orbiter SN1
1U Skyline Celestial from Skyline Celetial (San Francisco), aboard Orbiter SN1
1U SSSI cubesat from Stanford Student Space Initiative (Palo Alto), aboard Orbiter SN1
The Falcon 9 second stage was deorbited over the Indian Ocean at about 1721 UTC.
As of Jan 16, TLEs were available for 30 tracked objects from the launch but none had yet
been associated with a specific satellite.
OneWeb
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The second OneWeb Falcon 9 launched placed 40 more OneWeb satellites in a 600 km inital orbit on Jan 10.
The Falcon second stage was deorbited over the Indian Ocean at 0723 UTC.
CALT launches
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On Jan 8 CALT launched a CZ-7A with the SJ-23 (Shi Jian 23) communications technology satellite to geotransfer orbit.
The CZ-7A third stage remains in a low-perigee geotransfer orbit. SJ-23 may have raised its orbit
around Jan 13.
On Jan 12 CALT launched a CZ-2C. The second stage reached LEO and deployed the Apstar 6E (Yatai 6E) satellite
with a new attached orbit transfer stage which will raise its orbit.
SAST launches
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On Jan 13 SAST launched a CZ-2D carrying a satellite codenamed Yaogan 37 to a 43 deg LEO.
Yaogan 37 is probably the first of a new series of imaging reconnaissance satellites.
Two subsatellites, Shiyan 22A and 22B, were also deployed. A fourth cataloged object
may be the CZ-2D second stage.
On Jan 15 SAST launched a CZ-2D carrying a cluster of satellites to 500 km SSO with a 10:21 local
time orbital plane:
Qilu-2 and Qilu-3, 189 and 186 kg imaging sats for Shandong Inst. of Industrial Tech.
Luojia-3 01, remote sensing satellite for Wuhan U., mass 245 kg with 0.7m resolution.
Beiyou-1, spaceborne computing experiment for Beijing University of Posts and Telecoms built by Tianyi.
Probably around 50 kg?
Jin Zijing 6, imaging satellite for Hong Kong Aerospace Tech's Shenzhen subsidiary GHK, mass probably 50 to 100 kg,
in collaboration with Shandong IIT, for agricultural monitoring.
Tianzhi-2D, spaceborne computing experiment for the CAS Institute of Software, mass 19 kg.
Jin Zijing 3 and 4, imaging satellites for GHK in collaboration with Jiutian Weixing (Shanghai).
Possibly small 10 kg cubesats, but it's unclear.
Six satellites in the Jilin-1 imaging constellation by Chuangguang Sat Tech -
Jilin-1 GF03D34, high res imager with 42 kg mass.
Jilin-1 MF02A03, MF02A04, MF02A07, small imagers with 18 kg mass.
Jilin-1 HWA08, HWA07 infrared imaging satellites, possibly 40 kg?
The latter two are in collaboration with Yunyao Aerospace and have the alternate names Wofuman and Haihe-1.
On this flight it appears that the second stage may have been deorbited.
Gushenxing-1
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On Jan 9 the Xinghe Dongli (Galactic Energy) company launched its fifth
Gushenxing-1 (Ceres-1) rocket. All five flights have been successful. Y5
placed in orbit the Xiamen Science/tech satellite for Xiamen Tianwei and
Xi'an Zhongke Xiguang; the Tianmu-1 01 and 02 GNSS radio occultation
meteorology satellites for Xiyong Microelectronics Park, the Tianqi-13
IoT comms satellite for Guodian Gaokeji, and the Nantong Zhongxue Hao
imaging satellite (named after Nantong Middle School) for Shanghai
Satellite Technology. The satellites reached a 500 km SSO with 1123
local time orbital plane. The upper stage appears to have been deorbited.
LauncherOne
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Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl carrier plane took off from Newquay Airport,
Cornwall, at 2202:24 UTC Jan 9 and flew out over the Celtic Sea. At
about 2308:49 UTC the plane dropped LauncherOne vehicle R7 over
approximately 11.12W 50.74N. The rocket ignited to head southwards
towards SSO, but at 2315:24 or so a problem occurred during second stage burn at an
altitude of 183 km, and the vehicle fell in the ocean. Reentry was at
around 2319 UTC north of the Canaries at about 17W 32N and was observed
from the Canary Is. I estimate an orbit of -4580 x 183 km x 97.5 deg.
Cosmic Girl landed back at Newquay at 2353 UTC.
R7 carried the Amber maritime radio monitoring satellite for Catapult, two Prometheus and two
CIRCE cubesats for the UK defense research agency DSTL, the DOVER satellite built by OpenCosmos
for the RHEA Group to test signals for a new GNSS augmentation system, the ForgeStar-0 test
satellite for Space Forge (Cardiff), the STORK 6 imaging satellite for Poland's SatRev,
and the AMAN cubesat built by SatRev for the Omani government and Omani company ETCO.
RS1
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ABL Space Systems launched the first RS1 orbital launch vehicle from
Kodiak on Jan 10. The rocket's engines almost immediately shut down and
the vehicle crashed back onto the launch pad.
No information is available about how many seconds into the flight the
problem occurred and what the maximum altitude reached was. However, the
fact that it hit the pad suggests of order less than 20 seconds flight
and 100 metres altitude.
USSF-67
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SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy 005 on the US Space Force USSF-67 mission on Jan 15. The upper stage
is thought to have delivered the CBAS 2 communications satellite (USA 342) and the LDPE-3A experiment platform
to a drift orbit just above geostationary. The side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral and
the core stage was discarded in the ocean. USSF has cataloged the CBAS, the LDPE, the second stage,
and two pieces of debris, all presumably in near-GEO.
It isn't clear who built the CBAS (Continuous Broadcast Augmenting Satcom)
satellites, or what frequency band they use. They are operated by the USSF Space Systems Command.
Meanwhile, four satellites have been ejected from the LDPE-2 platform launched to above-GEO last November.
LINUS-A 1/2 are 12U cubesats which will test proximity operations in near-GEO. USA 340 and 341 are
secret payloads, possibly using the 100 kg-class ESPASat bus. At least for now, no orbital
data has been released for any of the four.
Erratum
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On VA259, it was MTG-I1 inside the adapter and the Galaxy satellites on top,
and not the other way around as I wrote in JSR 814.
Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Dec 16 0617 Shiyan 21 Chang Zheng 11 Xichang LC4 Tech? 172A 474 x 493 x 36.0
Dec 16 1146 SWOT Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Sci 173A 856 x 862 x 77.6
Dec 16 2248 O3b mPOWER 1 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 174A 2778 x 6992 x 9.6
O3b mPOWER 2 Comms 174B 2779 x 6990 x 9.6
Dec 17 2132 Starlink Group 4-37 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 175 231 x 335 x 53.2
Dec 18 0130? Xi Wang 4 CSS, LEO Comms 21035C 386 x 391 x 41.5
Dec 21 0147 Pleiades Neo 5 Vega-C CSG ZLV Imaging F06 -5800 x 110 x 97,8
Pleiades Neo 6 Imaging F06 -5800 x 110 x 97,8
Dec 27 0737 Gao Fen 11-04 Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan Imaging 176A 245 x 697 x 97.3
Dec 28 0534 Starlink Group 5-1 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 177A 212 x 335 x 43.0
Dec 29 0443 Shiyan 10-02 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang LC2 Sci? 178A 188 x 40096 x 51.0
Dec 29 1205 TJREVERB NRCSD-24/ISS, LEO Edu 98067UV 411 x 418 x 51.6
DANTESAT Tech 98067UU 403 x 405 x 51.6
Dec 29 1215 MARIO NRCSD-24/ISS, LEO Tech 98067UQ 411 x 415 x 51.6
NUTSAT Tech 98067UR 411 x 415 x 51.6
Dec 29 1345 LORIS NRCSD-24/ISS, LEO Imaging 98067US 411 x 416 x 51.6
ORCASAT Tech 98067UT 411 x 416 x 51.6
Dec 29 1355 SPORT NRCSD-24/ISS, LEO Tech 98067UW 413 x 417 x 51.6
PetitSat Sci 98067UX 413 x 417 x 51.6
Dec 30 0738 EROS C3 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Imaging 179A 484 x 502 x 139.4
Jan 3 1456 Transporter-6 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Tug 01A 517 x 537 x 9 7.5
ION SCV007 Tug 01
ION SCV008 Tug 01
Orbiter SN1 Tug 01
Vigoride VR-5 Tug 01
CHIMERA LEO 1 Tug 01
Skykraft 1 Carrier Tug 01
EOS SAT-1 Imaging 01
ICEYE X21 Radar 01
ICEYE X22 Radar 01
ICEYE X27 Radar 01
Umbra-04 Radar 01
Umbra-05 Radar 01
Albania-1 Imaging 01
Albania-2 Imaging 01
Newsat-34 Imaging 01
Newsat-35 Imaging 01
Lynk Tower 3 Comms 01
Lynk Tower 4 Comms 01
YAM-5 Tech 01
Flock 4y-1 Imaging 01
to
Flock 4y-36 Imaging 01
KuwaitSat-1 Tech 01
BDSAT-2 Tech 01
SharedSat-2211 Tech 01
LEMUR 2 Emmaculate Comms 01
LEMUR 2 Fuentetaja-01 Comms 01
LEMUR 2 Disclaimer Comms 01
LEMUR 2 SteveAlbers Comms 01
LEMUR 2 MMolo Comms 01
LEMUR 2 PhilAri Sci 01
KSF3A Sigint 01
KSF3B Sigint 01
KSF3C Sigint 01
KSF3D Sigint 01
BRO-8 Sigint 01
GAMA Alpha Tech 01
Menut Tech 01
Birkeland Sigint 01
Huygens Sigint 01
RROCI Meteo 01
PolyITAN-HP-30 Tech 01
Guardian-alpha Tech 01
Sony Sphere-1 Imaging 01
Sternula-1 Comms 01
NSLSat-2 Comms 01
SpaceBEE 156 to 167 Comms 01
Jan 6 0802 SuryaSat-1 JSSOD-24/ISS, LEO Tech 98067 411 x 418 x 51.6
Jan 6 0900 OPTIMAL-1 JSSOD-24/ISS, LEO Tech 98067
Jan 6 0932 HSKSAT JSSOD-24/ISS, LEO Tech 98067
Jan 8 2200 Shi Jian 23 Chang Zheng 7A Wenchang Comms 02A 209 x 35793 x 16.4
Jan 9 0504 Keji-1 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Sci 03 494 x 510 x 97.3
Tianmu-1 01 Met-RO 03
Tianmu-1 02 Met-RO 03
Tianqi-17 Comms 03
Nantong Zhongxue Imaging 03
Jan 9 2308 Amber LauncherOne B747, Celtic Sea F01 -4580 x 183 x 97.5
Prometheus 2-1
Prometheus 2-2
CIRCE 1
CIRCE 2
DOVER
ForgeStar-0
AMAN
STORK 6
Jan ? USA 340 LDPE-2, GEO Drift Tech? 22-144E
USA 341 LDPE-2, GEO Drift Tech? 22-144F
Jan 10 0450 OneWeb L16 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 04 584 x 601 x 86.5
Jan 10 2327 Varisat 1A RS-1 Kodiak LP3C Comms F02 -6378 x 0 x 97
Varisat 1B
Jan 12 1810 Apstar 6E Chang Zheng 2C Xichang Comms 05 228 x 641 x 28.5
Jan 13 0700 Yaogan 37 Chang Zheng 2D Jiuquan ? 06 508 x 522 x 43.2
Shiyan 22A Tech 06
Shiyan 22B Tech 06
Jan ? LINUS-A 1 LDPE-2, GEO Drift Tech 22-144G
LINUS-A 2 LDPE-2, GEO Drift Tech 22-144H
Jan 15 0314? Qilu-2 Chang Zheng 2D Taiyuan Imaging 07 488 x 504 x 97.4
Qilu-3 Imaging 07
Luojia-3-01 Tech 07
Jilin-1 GF03D-34 Imaging 07
Jilin-1 MF02A03 Imaging 07
Jilin-1 MF02A04 Imaging 07
Jilin-1 MF02A07 Imaging 07
Haihe-1 Imaging 07
Wofuman Imaging 07
Beiyou-1 Tech 07
Jin Zijing 6 Imaging 07
Jin Zijing 3 Imaging 07
Jin Zijing 4 Imaging 07
Tianzhi-2D Imaging 07
Jan 15 2256 CBAS 2 Falcon Heavy Kennedy LC39A Comms 08A 35199 x 35251 x 0.1
LPDE-3A Tech 08B
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
Dec 15 1215? Agni RV Agni 5 Kalam I. Test 800? Indian Ocean
Dec 18 0217 Imaging payload Hwasong-7? Sohae Test 550 Sea of Japan
Dec 18 0255 Imaging payload? Hwasong-7? Sohae Test 550 Sea of Japan
Dec 19 1000? RV Unknown missile Jiuquan Test 200? Korla range?
Dec 30 0900? Test payload Hyunmoo TLV Anhueng Test 200? Yellow Sea?
Dec 30 2305? RV KN missile Chunghwa Test 100? Sea of Japan
Dec 30 2310? RV KN missile Chunghwa Test 100? Sea of Japan
Dec 30 2315? RV KN missile Chunghwa Test 100? Sea of Japan
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