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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 821 draft                                                2023 Jun 1       Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 69 continues.

The Dragon CRS-28 cargo ship was launched from Kennedy Space Center at 1547 UTC Jun 5
docked with port IDA-3 on the ISS at 0954 UTC Jun 6. Two more IROSA solar arrays are in the trunk,
and at least 6 cubesats were carried up in the cabin for future deployment.

On Jun 7 the SPDM/SSRMS arms moved the IROSA package from the CRS-28 trunk to the MBS POA 
stowage location on the truss.


Chinese Space Station
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Fei, Deng and Zhang returned to Earth in Shenzhou 15 on Jun 3. They
undocked at 1329 UTC and landed at 2233 UTC. The Shenzhou 16
crew of Jing, Zhu and Gui remain aboard the station.

Starlink
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Starlink Group 6-3 (22 satellites) was launched on May 19 from Canaveral (I omitted this one last issue).
Starlink Group 2-10 (52 satellites) was launched on May 31 from Vandenberg.
Starlink Group 6-4 (22 satellites) was launched on Jun  4 from Canaveral.

Lijian-1
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The Lijian-1 rocket made a successful secondflight on Jun  7 from Jiuquan, reportedly placing
26 satellites in sun-sync orbit.
 Only six of the satellites have been tentatively identified to date.

Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT       Name			     Launch Vehicle	 Site		 Mission  INTL.  Catalog  Perigee Apogee  Incl	 Notes
May 21 0800   Aomen Kexue 1A                   Chang Zheng 2C             Jiuquan           Science  69A?  453 x 497 x 41.0
              Aomen Kexue 1B                                                                Science  69B?  453 x 496 x 41.0
              Luojia-2 01                                                                   Radar    69C?  453 x 494 x 41.0
May 21 2137   Axiom Ax-2                       Falcon 9                   Kennedy LC39A   Spaceship  70A   210 x 302 x 51.7
May 24 1256   Progress MS-23                   Soyuz-2-1a                 Baykonur LC31     Cargo    71A   187 x 224 x 51.6
May 25 0924   NEXTSAT-2                        Nuri                       Naro              Tech     72A   540 x 550 x 97.5
              Doyosaet 1                                                                   Sci/Ast   72
              Doyosaet 2                                                                   Sci/Ast   72
              Doyosaet 3                                                                   Sci/Ast   72
              Doyosaet 4                                                                   Sci/Ast   72
              LUMIR-T1                                                                      Tech     72
              JAC                                                                           Tech     72
              KSAT3U                                                                        Tech     72
May 25 1900?  VIREO                                                       VR-6, LEO         Tech    54AX
May 26 0346   TROPICS 03                       Electron                    Mahia LC1B       Science  73A   538 x 556 x 32.7
              TROPICS 07                                                                    Science  73B   539 x 555 x 32.7
May 26 2114   Kondor-FKA No. 1                 Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat          Vostochniy PU1S   Radar    74A   509 x 512 x 97.4
May 27 0430   Badr 8                           Falcon 9                   Canaveral LC40    Comms    75A   403 x 61203 x 27.8
May 29 0512   NVS-01                           GSLV Mk II                 Satish Dhawan SLP Nav      76A   208 x 40040 x 19.3
May 30 0131   Shenzhou 16                      Chang Zheng 2F             Jiuquan         Spaceship  77A   189 x 534 x 41.6
May 30 2127   Manligyeong-1                    Cheonlima-1                Sohae LC2         Imaging  F06   -5700? x 150? x 93?
May 31 0602   Starlink Group 2-10              Falcon 9                   Vandenberg SLC4E  Comms   78A    222 x 333 x 70.0
Jun  4 1220   Starlink Group 6-4               Falcon 9                   Canaveral LC40    Comms   79A    314 x 321 x 43.0
Jun  5 1547   Dragon CRS-28                    Falcon 9                   Kennedy LC39A     Cargo   80A    403 x 407 x 51.7
Jun  7 0410   Fucheng-1                        Lijian-1                   Jiuquan           Radar   81
              Shiyan-24A                                                                    Tech    81
              Shiyan-24B                                                                    Tech    81
              Xi'an Hangtou 8                                                              Imaging? 81
              Tianyi-26?                                                                    Tech?   81
              Xingshidai-16?                                                               Imaging  81

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches 

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Date UT       Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle      Site                  Mission    Apogee/km    Target

May 22 0500   MAPHEUS 13        IM/IM               Kiruna               Micrograv     225       ESRANGE
May 25?       RV                Kheibar             Unknown, Iran        Test          300?      Iran?
May 25 1623   Unity 25          Spaceship Two       Elephant Butte P3    Spaceship      87       Spaceport America


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