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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 818 draft                                                  2023 Mar 18       Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 68 continues.

On Mar 17 the Japanese RMS arm was used to move NASA's
temporarily-retired GEDI Earth observing experiment from slot EFU6 to
EFU7 on the Kibo Exposed Facility, freeing up a slot for STP-H9.

Tianmu
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EXPACE launched a Kuiazhou-1A from Jiuquan on Mar 22 and placed four Tianmu-1 satellites in
polar orbit. The Tianmu-1 system is used for GNSS radio occultation meteorology.

Terran 1
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Relativity Space launched the first Terran 1 from Cape Canaveral on Mar 23. The rocket had a successful
first stage flight but the second stage failed to ignite and the vehicle fell in the Atlantic.
This was the second methalox rocket to reach space.

Bars-M
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On Mar 23 Russia launched the fourth Bars-M military cartography satellite, cover name Kosmos-2567.

Electron 35
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Rocket Lab's 35th Electron mission placed two BlackSky Global imaging satellites in orbit.

Starlink
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Group 5-5, with 56 satellites, was launched from Canaveral on Mar 24 to a 43 degree orbit.

OneWeb
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Launch 18 (India-2), on Mar 26, placed 36 OneWeb satellites in orbit, giving the company enough satellites
to start global service. The LVM3 rocket's second stage remains in orbit.

Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT       Name			     Launch Vehicle	 Site		 Mission  INTL.  Catalog  Perigee Apogee  Incl	 Notes
Mar  1 1200?  Kelpie-1                                                     ION SCV007, LEO           01DC 637 x 655 x 98.1
Mar  2 0534   Dragon Crew-6                    Falcon 9                    Kennedy LC39A   Spaceship 27A 192 x 210 x 51.6
Mar  3 1838   Starlink Group 2-7               Falcon 9                    Vandenberg SLC4E Comms    28A  222 x 327 x 70.0
Mar  7 0137   Daichi-3                         H3-22S                      Tanegashima      Imaging  F03 -5940 x 635 x 86.6
Mar  9 1913   OneWeb L17                       Falcon 9                    Canaveral LC40   Comms    29A  581 x 599 x 86.5
Mar  9 2241   Tianhui-6 01                     Chang Zheng 4C              Taiyuan          Imaging  30A  888 x 888 x 99.0
              Tianhui-6 02                                                                           30B  888 x 888 x 99.0
Mar 12 2313   Luch-5Kh                         Proton-M/Briz-M             Baykonur LC81/24 Sigint   31A  381 x 35715 x 48.7
Mar 13 0402   Horus-2                          Chang Zheng 2C              Jiuquan          Imaging  32A 489 x 502 x 97.4
Mar 15 0030   Dragon CRS-27                    Falcon 9                    Kennedy LC39A    Cargo    33A 194 x 208 x 51.6
Mar 15 1141   Shiyan 19                        Chang Zheng 11              Jiuquan          Tech     34A 495 x 515 x 97.5
Mar 15 2210   Hwasong-17 RV                    Hwasong-17                  Sunan LP5        Missile  U02 -6260 x 6045 x 41.6
Mar 16 2339   Capella 9                        Electron                    MARS LA0C        Radar    35A  590 x 603 x 44
              Capella 10                                                                    Radar    35B  590 x 603 x 44
Mar 17 0833   Gao Fen 13-02                    Chang Zheng 3B              Xichang          Imaging  36A  190 x 35799 x 28.5
Mar 17 1926   Starlink Group 2-8               Falcon 9                    Vandenberg SLC4E Comms    37   221 x 331 x 70.0
Mar 17 2338   SES 18                           Falcon 9                    Canaveral LC40   Comms    38A  308 x 19720 x 26.9
              SES 19                                                                        Comms    38B  308 x 19720 x 26.9
Mar 22 0909   Tianmu-1 03                      KZ-1A                       Jiuquan          Met      39A  503 x 518 x 97.4
              Tianmu-1 04                                                                   Met      39B  502 x 517 x 97.4
              Tianmu-1 05                                                                   Met      39C  502 x 516 x 97.4
              Tianmu-1 06                                                                   Met      39D  501 x 515 x 97.4
Mar 23 0325   GLHF                             Terran 1                    Canaveral LC16   Test     F04  -6200 x 130 x 28.5
Mar 23 0640   Kosmos-2567                      Soyuz-2-1a                  Plesetsk LC43/3  Imaging  40A  338 x 499 x 97.6
Mar 23 0915   Global-19                        Electron                    Mahia LC1B       Imaging  41A  448 x 456 x 42.0
              Global-5                                                                      Imaging  41B  448 x 456 x 42.0
Mar 24 1543   Starlink Group 5-5               Falcon 9                    Canaveral LC40   Comms    42A  297 x 339 x 43.0
Mar 26 0330   OneWeb L18                       LVM3                        Satish Dhawan    Comms    43   441 x 454 x 87.4

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches 

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

Mar 13 2241   RV                KN-23              Jangyon               Test          100?      Sea of Japan
Mar 13 2251   RV                KN-23              Jangyon               Test          100?      Sea of Japan
Mar 23 2100   NASA 41.127UE     Terrier IO         Andoya                Atmos.        149       Nor. Sea
Mar 23 2102   NASA 36.361UE     Black Brant 9      Andoya                Atmos.        363       Nor. Sea

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