Jonathan's Space Report
No. 861 draft 2026 Oct 1 Bromley, UK
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Update:
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Construction on my new Space Library near London is now well under way.
The books have arrived!
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(further donations welcome)
ISS
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Expedition 75 is underway.
Dragon Grace C213.2 was launched on Oct 1 on the Crew-13 mission, carrying Jessica Watkins,
Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, and Sergey Teteryantnikov. It docked with IDA-2 at 2305 UTC Oct 1.
Crew-12 undocked from IDA-3 at 1205 UTC Oct 8 and landed at 1534 UTC the same day off the
coast of Los Angeles near 119.1W 33.7N.
SS Steven R Nagel (Cygnus NG-24) was unberthed from Unity nadir and released by the Canadarm-2 at 1644 UTC Oct 9,
It was deorbited over the South Pacific with reentry at about 1233 UTC Oct 12.
The Dragon CRS-35 cargo mission was launched on Oct 13. It carries two IROSA solar arrays and an EMU spacesuit.
Starlink Launches
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Starlink Group 15-25 (27 Ku sats) was launched on Oct 13 by Falcon 9 from Vandenberg.
Transporter 18
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The Transporter 18 rideshare mission was launched on Oct 1.
NROL-97
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On Oct 2 SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy from KSC on the NROL-97 mission with the USA 708 payload, likely to medium
Earth orbit like USA 310 in 2020.
SDA T1TL
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21 Northrop Grumman comms satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer
were launched on Oct 10 by Falcon 9.
SAST
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On Oct 9 SAST launched a Chang Zheng 12 from Hainan with another batch of Xingwang sats.
Commercial Chinese launches
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On Oct 14 Landspace launched a Zhuque-2E with eight Xingshidai orbital computing sats for Guoxing
and two Guangshuan lasercom test sats for Landspace subsidiary LandTower.
Errata
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JSR 853: Ariane 6 on Feb 12 was flight VA267, not VA269. Vulcan launched on Feb 12 was V-005, not V-004.
These were already correct in GCAT.
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
Sep 26 0039 StriX-12 Electron Mahia LC1B Radar 223A 544 x 566 x 37.9
Sep 26 1400 USSF-385 (SBST R-3) Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms? 224
Sep 28 1249 Starlink Group 31-1 Starship V3 Starbase OLP2 Comms 225 262 x 275 x 30.5
Ship 41 Test 225AC
Oct 1 1510 Dragon Crew-13 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Spaceship 226 193 x 230 x 51.6
Oct 1 1832 Transporter 18 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Rideshare 227 513 x 517 x 97.4
Oct 2 0354 USA 708 Falcon Heavy Kennedy LC39A Sigint? 228A 11000 x 11000 x 58?
Oct 7 0325 Neonsat-2 to 6 Nuri Naro Imaging 229 563 x 581 x 97.7
SLEDGE Tech 229
Command v1 Tech 229
UEL-U-Sys Tech 229
JACK-007 Tech 229
BEE-1012 Tech 229
Daejon-Sat 1 Tech 229
GBSat Tech 229
CPSat Tech 229
E3 Tester KARI-2 Tech 229
Oct 9 1927 Xingwang Digui 27 Chang Zheng 12 Hainan CLS Comms 230
Oct 10 0739 SDA T1TL-A Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 231
Oct 13 0028 Starlink Group 15-25 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 232
Oct 13 1033 Dragon CRS-35 Falcon 9 Canaveral Cargo 233
Oct 14 1140 Xingshidai 39, 44-50 Zhuque-2E Jiuquan Compute 234
Guangchuan 03, 04 Lasercom 234
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
Oct 1 0651 MAPHEUS 17 RK/IM Kiruna Micrograv 290 ESRANGE
Oct 2 2130 RV Hwasong-16Na? Wonsan Test 100 Sea of Japan
Oct 6 RV M51.3 S618, Baie d'Audierne Test 1000? W Atlantic
Oct 10 0743 Mk 21 RV Minotaur I Lite Vandenberg Test 1000? Kwajalein
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