Jonathan's Space Report
No. 842 draft 2025 Jan 23 Somerville, MA
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Annual Report
-------------
The 2024 annual report is available at https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space24.pdf
Latest corrected version is v1.4, if you downloaded an earlier version please replace it.
JSR Fundraiser
---------------
A major change - I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home.
And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding or
subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I
need to raise additional funds. This is the first and I hope last time I will
ask you for money. And no pressure - we'll still be friends if you don't donate.
For 35 years I've been sharing information about space exploration with
the world completely for free. Jonathan's Space Report is known for its
reliability and objectivity. My websites on the General Catalog of Space
Objects, the Starlink launch statistics, and other aspects of
spaceflight are relied on by journalists, public officials and
enthusiasts like you across the world, and all the data on the sites is
provided under a free CC-BY licence. I've been able to do this because I
have a day job and I do the Space Report in my spare time. But I am
planning to formally retire at the end of this year, move the extensive physical
library of space documents on which I rely to a new longer-term home in
a yet to be determined location in the UK, and do Space Report related
work full-time (and likely, as before, unpaid).
Buying the new home for the 100 square m (1000 sq ft) Jonathan's Space
Research Library is, it turns out, currently a little bit beyond my
financial means. Now that NASA, Harvard astronomy and MIT Aero Astro
have disposed of their libraries, my collection is arguably the most
extensive (at least top 5 worldwide) technical astronautics history
collection remaining and I think it should be preserved. I am asking for
donations rather than trying to monetize the Report because I want to
retain its editorial independence. So if you have relied on my free
information and are willing to donate a little, I would be very
grateful. Every extra dollar will help ensure the future of more and
more of the library and preserve a treasure trove of documents on the
history of spaceflight. Donors will be welcome to (on an occasional
basis!) visit, browse, and do research in the library once the
relocation is complete.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
International Space Station
---------------------------
Expedition 72 continues with Suni Williams (ISS commander), Barry Wilmore, Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner,
Don Pettit, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Proba-3
-------
The Proba-3 occulter spacecraft separated from Proba-3 coronagraph at 2300 UTC on Jan 14.
CALT launches
--------------
CALT launched a CZ-3B on Jan 23 with the military TJS 14 sat, mission unknown. It was placed in GEO at 18.3E.
CALT launched the first CZ-8A on Feb 11 with the second group of Hulianwang Weixing Digui low orbit
internet satellites.
SAST launches
-------------
SAST launched a CZ-6A on Jan 23 with 18 more Qianfan internet satellites.
Starlink
---------
Starlink Group 11-6 (23 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Jan 24 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-7 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Jan 27 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 11-4 (22 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Feb 3 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-3 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 4 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-9 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 8 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 11-10 (23 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Feb 11 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-18 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 11 to a 43 deg orbit.
The Falcon 9 second stage from the Group 11-4 launch failed to deorbit and remains in low orbit.
Other Falcon 9 missions
------------------------
On Jan 30 SpaceX launched the Spainsat NG-1 military comms satellite for Spain's Hisdesat to supersynch transfer orbit.
On Feb 4 SpaceX launched two Maxar Legion imaging satellites to LEO.
ISRO
----
ISRO launched GSLV Mk II flight F15 on Jan 29, placing the NVS-02 navigation satellite in geotransfer orbit.
H3
--
Japan's JAXA launched the QZS 6 (Michibiki 6) navigation sat on an H3
to geotransfer orbit on Feb 2.
RocketLab
----------
Five more Kineis IoT satellites were launched on an Electron from Mahia on Feb 8 to 0906 LTDN SSO.
Soyuz
-----
Russia launched three Defense Ministry satellites on a Soyuz-2-1v/Volga from Plesetsk on Feb 5.
New Glenn
----------
Russian tracking data indicates the New Glenn second stage may have fragmented upon passivation, with
over 60 debris objects tracked in its 2400 x 19000 km orbit. No objects have yet been cataloged by US Space Force.
Table of Recent Orbital (and near-Orbital) Launches
---------------------------------------------------
Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Jan 15 0611 Blue Ghost 1 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Lunar 10 189 x 322453 x 35.0
Resilience Lunar 10 176 x 362529 x 35.2
Jan 16 0703 DS-1/Blue Ring Pathfinder New Glenn Canaveral LC36 Tech 11A 2409 x 19224 x 30.0
Jan 16 2237 Ship 33 Starship Starbase Tech F01 -3170 x 146 x 26
Starlink Simulators 1-10
Jan 17 0407 PAK EO-1 Chang Zheng 2D Jiuquan Imaging 12 516 x 528x 97.5
Tianlu-1 Rem.Sens.12
Lantan-1 Rem.Sens.12
Jan 20 1011 Yunyao-1 37 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Met 13 528 x 547 x 97.6
Yunyao-1 38 Met 13
Yunyao-1 39 Met 13
Yunyao-1 40 Met 13
Jitianxing A-05 xing Imaging 13
Jan 21 0524 Starlink Group 13-1 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 14 305 x 312 x 43.0
USA 485 Unknown 14X
USA 486 Unknown 14Y
Jan 21 1545 Starlink Group 11-8 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 15 269 x 277 x 53.2
Jan 23 0515 Qianfan Jigui 06 (1 to 18) Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Comms 16
Jan 23 1532 TJS 14 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Sigint? 17A 189 x 35807 x 28.5
Jan 24 1407 Starlink Group 11-6 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 18 267 x 280 x 53.2
Jan 27 2205 Starlink Group 12-7 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 19 285 x 292 x 43.0
Jan 29 0053 NVS-02 GSLV Mk II Satish Dhawan SLP Nav 20A 164 x 37593 x 20.8
Jan 30 0134 Spainsat NG-1 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 21A 472 x 68525 x 26.8
Feb 1 2302 Starlink Group 11-4 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 22A 278 x 293 x 51.6
Feb 2 0830 Michibiki 6 H3 Tanegashima Nav 23A 250 x 35225 x 21.5
Feb 4 1015 Starlink Group 12-3 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 24A 287 x 289 x 43.0
Feb 4 2313 Maxar Legion WV5 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Imaging 25A 699 x 706 x 45.1
Maxar Legion WV6 Imaging 25B 446 x 452 x 45.0
Feb 5 0359 Kosmos-2581 Soyuz-2-1V/Volga Plesetsk LC43/4 Imaging? 26 576 x 594 x 82.0
Kosmos-2582 Imaging? 26
Kosmos-2583 Imaging? 26
Feb 8 1918 Starlink Group 12-9 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 27 284 x 291 x 43.0
Feb 8 2043 Kineis-2A Electron Mahia Comms 28E 636 x 652 x 98.0
Kineis-2B Comms 28G
Kineis-2C Comms 28B
Kineis-2D Comms 28C
Kineis-2E Comms 28D
Feb 11 0209 Starlink Group 11-10 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 29 275 x 288 x 53.2
Feb 11 0930 HWD 2-01 to 2-09 Chang Zheng 8A Wenchang LC201 Comms 30 860 x 871 x 50.0
Feb 11 1853 Starlink Group 12-18 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 31 285 x 292 x 43.0
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
-----------------------------------
Date UT Payload Rocket Site Mission Apogee Target
Jan 14 0015 HTB-2 T-T-Oriole Wallops I Target 200? Atlantic
Jan 24 1735 ORIGIN 1 Imp. Malemute Kiruna Atmosphere 100? ESRANGE
Feb 2 0707 GIRAFF 1 Black Brant 9 Poker Flat Auroral 200? Alaska
Feb 4 1600 NS-29 New Shepard West Texas Lunar grav sim 105 West Texas
Feb 9 0835 GIRAFF 2 Black Brant 9 Poker Flat Auroral 200? Alaska
.-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Jonathan McDowell | |
| Somerville MA 02143 | inter : planet4589 at gmail |
| USA | twitter: @planet4589 |
| |
| JSR: https://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html |
| Back issues: https://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back |
| Subscribe/unsub: https://www.planet4589.org/mailman/listinfo/jsr |
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
|
