Jonathan's Space Report
No. 844 draft 2025 Mar 18 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 72 continues with Aleksey Ovchinin (commander), Ivan Vagner,
Don Pettit, Anne McClain, Nicole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov.
Crew-9 (Freedom) undocked from IDA3 at 0505 Mar 18 with Hague, Gorbunov, Williams and Wilmore.
Dragon Crew-9 splashed down at about 2157:07 UTC Mar 18 in the Tallahasee recovery area,
in the Gulf of Mexico near 84.0W 29.3W. Hague and Gorbunov had launched
aboard Crew-9 and spent 171d 4h 39m 47s in flight. Williams and Wilmore were launched
on 2024 Jun 5 aboard Starliner CFT and spent 286d 7h 4m 52 in space.
Starlink
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Starlink Group 12-25 (13 DTC sats, 10 Ku V2MO sats) was launched on Mar 18 from Canaveral.
Other Falcon 9 flights
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On Mar 21 SpaceX launched a cluster of Starshield 'proliferated architecture' satellites
for the National Reconnaissance Office. (NRO refers to it as the eight launch, but this includes
NROL-126 which had only two NRO payloads, and I suspect those payloads belong to a different program
than the clusters of many payloads).
Based on the number of gaps in the catalog it appears that this launch only deployed 11 payloads, likely
indicating a larger Starshield version.
Galactic Energy
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On Mar 21, Xinhe Dongli launched another Gushenxing-1 from Jiuquan with six more Yunyao GNSS-RO meteorology 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
Mar 16 1050 Kosmos-2585 Angara-1.2 Plesetsk LC35/1 Comms 54A 1492 x 1517 x 82.5
Kosmos-2586 Comms 54B
Kosmos-2587 Comms 54C
Mar 17 0807 Yunyao-1 55 to 60 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Meteo 55 528 x 546 x 97.6
Zhongke-1 06 to 07 Imaging 55
Mar 18 0131 Kineis 4A to 4E Electron Mahia Pad 1A Comms 56A 642 x 645 x 98.0
Mar 18 1957 Starlink Group 12-25 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 57 283 x 292 x 43.0
Mar 21 0649 Starshield Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Imaging? 58 300?x 310?x 70.0?
Mar 21 1107 Yunyao-1 43 to 48 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Meteo 59 530 x 546 x 97.6
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload Rocket Site Mission Apogee Target
Mar 11 0915 REXUS 33 Imp.Orion? Kiruna Micrograv 80? ESRANGE
Mar 13 0523 REXUS 34 Imp.Orion? Kiruna Micrograv 80? ESRANGE
Mar 19 PrSM PrSM Vandenberg Test 100? Pacific
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