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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 839 draft 2024 Oct 26 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 72 continues with Suni Williams (ISS commander), Barry Wilmore, Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner,
Don Pettit, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Chinese Space Station
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The Chinese station reboosted its orbit on Oct 23 at about 0530 UTC with a circa 4.5m/s burn.
Shenhou 19 was launched on Oct 29 with the TGZR8 expedition 8 crew of Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze.
It docked with the Tianhe forward port at 0300 UTC Oct 30.
Starlink
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Starlink Group 10-8 (22 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Oct 26 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 9-9 (20 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Oct 30 to a 53 deg orbit.
The Oct 24 Starshield launch may have carried only 17 payloads, fewer than previous Starshield launches.
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
Oct 4 1125 Cert-2 Vulcan VC2S Canaveral SLC41 Test 179A 735 x -237885 x 26.7
Oct 7 1452 Hera Falcon 9 Canaveral SLC40 Probe 180A 190 x -36368 x 34.2
Oct 8 1025 CySat-1 ISS, LEO Tech 98067WZ 408 x 421 x 51.6
Oct 8 1035 DORA ISS, LEO Tech 98067XA 410 x 420 x 51.6
Oct 10 1350 HGW 03 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Comms 181A 198 x 35774 x 28.4
Oct 13 1225 Starship 30 Starship Starbase OLP1 Test U04 -15 x 213 x 26.2
Oct 14 1606 Europa Clipper Falcon Heavy Kennedy LC39A Probe 182A 180 x -32078 x 32.9
Oct 15 0610 Starlink Group 10-10 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 183 280 x 291 x 53.2
Oct 15 0821 Starlink Group 9-7 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 184 277 x 287 x 53.2
Oct 15 1106 Qianfan Jigui 02 (01 to 18) Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Comms 185
Oct 15 2345 Gao Fen 12-05 Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Radar 186A 594 x 600 x 97.9
Oct 18 2331 Starlink Group 8-19 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 187 280 x 291 x 53.2
Oct 20 0513 OneWeb L20 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 188 591 x 595 x 86.5
Oct 22 0010 Tianping-3A(01) Chang Zheng 6 Taiyuan Calib 189A 555 x 566 x 97.6
Tianping-3B(01) Calib 189B
Tianping-3B(02) Calib 189C
Oct 23 0109 Yaogan 43-03-01 Chang Zheng 2C Xichang Comms? 190A 490 x 502 x 35.0
Yaogan 43-03-02 Comms? 190B
Yaogan 43-03-03 Comms? 190C
Oct 23 2147 Starlink Group 6-61 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 191 284 x 291 x 43.0
Oct 24 1713 Starshield Group 1-4 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Imaging? 192 300 x 310 x 70.0
Oct 26 2147 Starlink Group 10-8 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 193 290 x 301 x 53.2
Oct 29 2027 Shenzhou 19 Chang Zheng 2F Jiuquan Spaceship 194A
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload Rocket Site Mission Apogee Target
Oct 1 1309 SL-15 SpaceLoft XL Spaceport America Micrograv 100? White Sands?
Oct 1 1630? Warhead Shahab-3? (x180) S Shiraz Weapon 200? Israel
Emad?
Ghadr-110?
Kheibar Shekan?
Fattah-1?
Oct 20 1824 Aftershock II Aftershock Black Rock Test 100? Black Rock
Oct 23 1525? NS-27 New Shepard West Texas Test 101? West Texas
Oct 24 2310 Target? Terrier Oriole? Wallops Target? 100? Atlantic
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