Jonathan's Space Report
No. 838 draft 2024 Sep 25 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 72 began on Sep 23, with Suni Williams (ISS commander), Barry Wilmore, Matthew
Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Aleksandr Grebyonkin, Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, and Don Pettit.
Dragon Freedom (capsule C212) was launched on the Crew-9 mission on Sep 28 at 1717 UTC, carrying
Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov. It docked with IDA-2 on ISS at 2130 UTC Sep 29.
Progress M-28, docked with ISS, made a 1.7 m/s orbit raising burn on Oct 4.
IGS Radar-8
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched H-IIA flight F49 on Sep 26
with the Japanese Cabinet Office's IGS Radar-8 spy satellite.
SAST launches
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SAST launched a CZ-2D on Sep 27 with the Shijian 19 recoverable microgravity satellite.
SJ-19 carries a set of plant seeds for free fall germination experiments. It consists
of a recoverable capsule and a service module of apparently new design.
The last similar mission was SJ-10 in 2016.
Vulcan Cert-2
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On Oct 4 ULA launched the second Vulcan VC2S from Canaveral. Althogh
part of an SRB nozzle appears to have failed on ascent, ULA reported
that the spacecraft made orbit and that the Centaur made three burns to
enter a hyperbolic escape orbit. The circa-1500-kg dummy payload remained attached
to the Centaur.
ULA released no quantitative information on its orbital parameters.
Space Force tracked the parking orbit as 492 x 498 km x 30.0 deg.
The Catalina and ATLAS asteroid surveys discovered it as object C43KHJ1,
in a 735 x -237885 km x 26.7 deg escape orbit with C3 = 3.55 km**2/s**2.
It will enter a 0.94 x 1.03 AU x 0.2 deg solar orbit on around Oct 12.
The Centaur will make a very close return approach to Earth on 2029 Feb
27; estimated 2953 km perigee based on preliminary observations.
Erratum
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The Vega launch was Sep 5, not Sep 4.
Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Sep 3 0115 Yaogan 43-02 01 to 06 Chang Zheng 4B Xichang Comms? 156 489 x 501 x 35.0
Sep 5 0150 Sentinel 2C Vega CSG ELV Imaging 157A 776 x 780 x 98.6
Sep 5 1533 Starlink Group 8-11 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 158 288 x 302 x 53.2
Sep 5 1830 Geely Group 03 01 to 10 Chang Zheng 6 Taiyuan Comms 159 553 x 564 x 50.0
Sep 6 0320 Starshield Group 1-3 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 160 300?x300? x 70
Sep 10 0923 Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Spaceship 161A 196 x1400 x51.6
Sep 11 1623 Soyuz MS-26 Soyuz-2-1a Baykonur LC31 Spaceship 162A
Sep 12 0852 BlueBird 1 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 163C 505 x 522 x 53.0
BlueBird 2 Comms 163D
BlueBird 3 Comms 163A
BlueBird 4 Comms 163E
BlueBird 5 Comms 163B
Sep 13 0145 Starlink Group 9-6 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 164 288 x 298 x 53.2
Sep 14 0558? Chamran-1 Qaem-100 Shahroud Tech 165B 546 x 557 x 64.1
Sep 17 0701 Kosmos-2577 Angara-1.2 Plesetsk Imaging? 166A 328 x 344 x 96.8
Kosmos-2578 Imaging? 166B 328 x 344 x 96.8
Sep 17 2250 Galileo FOC FM26 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Nav 167A 22941 x 23009 x 55.4
Galileo FOC FM32 Nav 167B 22948 x 23005 x 55.4
Sep 19 0114 Beidou DW 59 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Nav 168A 21182 x 22334 x 55.0
Beidou DW 60 168B 21538 x 22199 x 55.0
Sep 20 0411 Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B-01 Chang Zheng 2D Taiyuan Imaging 169A 531 x 547 x 97.6
Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B-02 Imaging 169B
Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B-03 Imaging 169C
Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B-04 Imaging 169D
Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B-05 Imaging 169E
Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B-06 Imaging 169F
Sep 20 0943 Tianqi 29 Kuaizhou 1A Xichang Comms 170A
Tianqi 30 Comms 170B
Tianqi 31 Comms 170C 841 x 854 x 44.9
Tianqi 32 Comms 170D
Sep 20 1350 Starlink Group 9-17 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 171 286 x 295 x 53.2
Sep 20 2301 Kineis 2A Electron Mahia LC1A Comms 172A 638 x 640 x 98.0
Kineis 2B Comms
Kineis 2C Comms
Kineis 2D Comms
Kineis 2E Comms
Sep 24 0231 Jitianxing A-01 Jielong-3 DFHT, Yellow Sea Imaging 173 484 x 501 x 97.4
Fudan-1 Imaging 173
Luojia-4 01 Imaging 173
Shenqi Radar 173
Xingshidai-15 Imaging 173
Xingshidai-21 Tech 173
Xingshidai-22 Tech 173
Tianyan-15 Tech 173
Sep 24 2333 AIRSAT-01 Lijian-1 Jiuquan Radar 174 507 x 528 x 97.5
AIRSAT-02 Radar 174
Jilin-1 SAR-01A Radar 174
Yunyao-1 21 Meteo 174
Yunyao-1 22 Meteo 174
Sep 25 0401 Starlink Group 9-8 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 175 289 x 299 x 53.2
Sep 26 0524 IGS Radar 8 H-IIA Tanegashima Radar 176A 480 x 480 x 97?
Sep 27 1030 Shijian 19 Chang Zheng 2D Jiuquan LifeSci 177A 320 x 347 x 41.4
Sep 28 1717 Dragon Crew-9 Falcon 9 Canaveral SLC40 Spaceship 178A 189 x 206 x 51.6
Oct 4 1125 Cert-2 Vulcan VC2S Canaveral SLC41 Test 179A 735 x -237885 x 26.7
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Blue Origin flew New Shepard flight NS-26 on Aug 29, with passengers Ephraim Rabin, Nicolina Elrick,
Eugene Grin, Robert Ferl, Karsen Kitchen and Eiman Jahangir becoming space travellers 699 to 704.
Date UT Payload Rocket Site Mission Apogee Target
Sep 2 0941 BOLT-1B Black Brant VC Andoya Hypersonic 254 Norwegian Sea
Sep 3 1921 FURST Black Brant IX White Sands Solar UV 300? White Sands
Sep 6 Agni RV Agni 4 Chandipur Op. Test 600 Indian Ocean
Sep 15 0330 Warhead Toufan Yemen Weapon 300? Israel
Sep 25 0044 RV DF-31? Wenchang? Test 1000? Pacific Ocean
Sep 28 1800 JAKE Terrier Oriole?? Wallops I Target? 100? Atlantic Ocean
Oct 1 1630? Warhead Shahab-3? (x180) S Shiraz Weapon 200? Israel
Emad?
Ghadr-110?
Kheibar Shekan?
Fattah-1?
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