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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 842 draft                                                     2025 Jan 23  Somerville, MA
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Annual Report
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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
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
has now raised over $100K. I am profoundly moved and grateful for all your
support.

I am looking at several properties in the south of England as possible homes,
but nothing solid (or affordable) yet. I'll keep you all posted.

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.

US spacewalk EVA-92 on Jan 30, by Williams and Whitmore, saw the
successful retrieval of the failed S-band radio frequency group (RFG)
package.

Proba-3
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The Proba-3 occulter spacecraft separated from Proba-3 coronagraph at 2300 UTC on Jan 14.

CALT launches
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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
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SAST launched a CZ-6A on Jan 23 with 18 more Qianfan internet satellites.


Starlink
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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.
Starlink Group 12-8 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 15 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 10-12 (23 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 18.

The Falcon 9 second stage from the Group 11-4 launch failed to deorbit and remains in low orbit.

Other Falcon 9 missions
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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
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ISRO launched GSLV Mk II flight F15 on Jan 29, placing the NVS-02 navigation satellite in geotransfer orbit.

H3
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Japan's JAXA launched the QZS 6 (Michibiki 6) navigation sat on an H3
to geotransfer orbit on Feb 2.

RocketLab
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Five more Kineis IoT satellites were launched on an Electron from Mahia on Feb 8 to 0906 LTDN SSO.

BlackSky Global's first Gen3 satellite was launched on an Electron from Mahia on Feb 18.

Soyuz
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Russia launched three Defense Ministry satellites on a Soyuz-2-1v/Volga from Plesetsk on Feb 5.


New Glenn
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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.

Blue Ghost
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Firefly's Blue Ghost entered lunar orbit on Feb 14 at 0150 UTC.

Resilience
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iSpace's Resilience lander made an 8400 km lunar flyby at 2243 UTC Feb 14.


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

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
Feb 15 0614   Starlink Group 12-8                  Falcon 9               Canaveral LC40   Comms    32  285 x 291 x 43.0
Feb 18 2317   BlackSky Gen3                        Electron               Mahia LC1B       Imaging  33A
Feb 18 2321   Starlink Group 10-12                 Falcon 9               Canaveral LC40   Comms    34

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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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

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