[JSR] Jonathan's Space Report, No. 807
Jonathan McDowell
jcm at planet4589.com
Tue Jun 28 00:02:33 EDT 2022
Jonathan's Space Report
No. 807 2022 Jun 27 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 67 continues with Oleg Artem'ev, Denis Matveev, Kjell
Lindgren, Robert Hines, Samantha Cristoforetti, and Jessica Watkins
aboard the ISS.
On Jun 1, the Progress MS-18 cargo ship undocked from Zvezda at 0802 UTC and was
deorbited over the Pacific at 1151 UTC.
On Jun 3, the Progress MS-20 cargo ship (spacecraft 450, ISS mission
81P) was launched from Baykonur at 0932 UTC and docked with Zvezda at
1302 UTC.
On Jun 16 at 1903 UTC Progress MS-20 made a 275s burn to adjust the ISS orbit
by 0.5m/s, avoiding a potential encounter with Russian ASAT debris object 1982-092BYX.
On Jun 20 at 1520 UTC Cygnus NG-17 attempted an ISS reboost, but the
engine shut down after 5s. The reboost was completed successfully on Jun
25 at 1742 UTC with a 301s, 0.3m/s burn.
Chinese Space Station
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Shenzhou 14 was launched on Jun 5 at 0244 UTC. Crew were Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe;
they will carry out the TGZR-3 (Tiangong Zairen 3, Tiangong Crewed Mission 3) expedition.
The ship arrived at the Chinese Space Station at 0942 UTC the same day, docking at the Tianhe
module nadir port.
CALT launches
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China's CALT launched a CZ-2C from Xichang at 0400 UTC Jun 2, placing 9
commercial comm/navigation satellites in 600 x 617 km x 50.0 deg orbit
for the Geely group. The satellites are intended to support autonomously driving cars.
The satellites are called Geely Xinguo 01 zu 01 to 09 xing (Geely Constellation
Group 01 Sats 01 to 09), but also GeeSAT-5(01) to GeeSAT-5(09). Probably the first nomenclature
is used by CALT or the manufacturer, and the second by the GeeSpace operators.
SAST launches
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Three Yaogan 35 satellites were launched on a CZ-2D from Xichang on Jun 23.
The third Gaofen-12 radar satellite was launched from Jiuquan on Jun 27 to a 2200 LTDN SSO.
Tianxing
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China's EXPACE launched a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan and placed the
Tianxing-1 space environment satellite in orbit on Jun 22.
Nilesat 301
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Egypt's Nilesat 301 communications satellite was launched to geotransfer orbit on a Falcon 9
on Jun 8. The satellite is a 4000 kg Thales Alenia Spacebus 4000B2 with Ku and Ka band
television broadcasting payloads.
Astra Rocket 3.3
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Astra launched another Rocket 3.3, LV0010, from Canaveral on Jun 12. The
mission carried two MIT-Lincoln Labs TROPICS 3U cubesats to study storm
precipitation and humidty. The second stage shut down early, 7m 21s
after launch, and the vehicle failed to reach orbit, reentering a few
hundred km west of the Senegalese coast.
Starlink
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Starlink Group 4-19 (53 satellites) was launched from Kennedy Space Center on Jun 17.
SARah
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Germany's X-band radar spy satellite, SARah-1, was launched on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg
on Jun 18. The satellite, with a mass around 4000 kg, is a successor to the SAR-Lupe
series and is operated by the Bundeswehr (German armed forces).
Globalstar rideshare
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On Jun 19 SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with a single initially
acknowledged payload, Globalstar-2 FM15. However, suspicions of
additional secret payloads being delpoyed were confirmed when
Space-Track cataloged four such payloads, USA 328 to USA 331.
Onboard views of the vehicle prior to Globalstar deployment showed an empty grid adapter on the front
end of the vehicle similar to that used on Transporter-2 for Starlink
deployments. Another similar adapter was used on Transporter-3 and may
have been used to deploy the NRO payloads USA 320 to USA 323.
The Falcon 9 reached a 535 km circular orbit at the first cutoff of the second stage (SECO-1).
At this stage, around 0440 UTC, the four secret payloads were likely deployed. At 0532 UTC
the stage fired to enter an orbit of around 535 x 1120 km, and at 0614 UTC the third stage
two burn circularized the orbit at 1126 km. Globalstar was deployed at 0620:57 UTC.
The third stage made a fourth burn to deorbit itself soon after.
Nuri
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South Korea's second launch of the Nuri (KSLV-2) rocket was successful
on Jun 21. A 1300 kg ballast payload (Wiseong-monache, mockup satellite)
and the 180 kg PVSAT (Seogneung geomheung wiseong, performance
verification satellite) were placed in a 700 km sun-sync orbit with
15;36 local time orbital plane. PVSAT will later deploy 4 cubesats.
Ariane 5
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Ariane 5 mission VA257, vehicle L5116, was launched on Jun 22 and placed
two satellites in geotransfer orbit. Measat 3D is a 5648 kg Airbus
Eurostar 3000 satellite with C, Ku and Ka-band comms payloads for the
Malaysian operator MEASAT; it also carries a Q/V propagation study
payload. GSAT-24 is a 4181 kg ISRO I3K satellite with a Ku-band
television broadcasting payload, to be operated by India's NSIL.
Errata
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In the last JSR I mentioned "Kosmos-2255 had a similar orbit to the Kosmos-2251 satellite (which
failed)...". I meant Kosmos-2551, not 2251.
There were seven Jilin-1 GF03D sats, not 6, on the May 5 (not May 6) launch.
Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
May 2 2249 E-Space Demo 1 Electron Mahia LC1A Comms 47 522 x 532 x 97.5
E-Space Demo 2 Comms 47
E-Space Demo 3 Comms 47
SpaceBEE-140 to 155 Comms 47
SpaceBEE NZ-15 to NZ-22 Comms 47
BRO-6 Sigint 47
AuroraSat-1 Tech 47
Unicorn-2 Imaging 47
TRSI-2 Tech 47
TRSI-3 Tech 47
MyRadar-1 Weather 47
Copia Tech 47
May 5 0238 Jilin-1 KF-01C Chang Zheng 2D Taiyuan Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-27 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-28 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-29 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-30 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-31 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-32 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
Jilin-1 GF-03D-33 Imaging 48 528 x 545 x 97.7
May 6 0942 Starlink (Group 4-17) Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 49 528 x 545 x 97.7
May 9 1549 KSF2-A ION SVC005, LEO Sigint 33AN 492 x 511 x 97.4
May 9 1756 Tianzhou-4 Chang Zheng 7 Wenchang LC201 Cargo 50A 376 x 392 x 41.5
May 9 1858 KSF2-B ION SVC005, LEO Sigint 33AP 492 x 512 x 97.4
May 13 0709 Jilin-1 MF-01A/R Shuang Quxian 1 Jiuquan Imaging F02 -6300 x 60? x 97.0
May 13 2207 Starlink (Group 4-13) Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 51
May 14 2040 Starlink (Group 4-15) Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 52
May 18 1059 Starlink (Group 4-18) Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 53
May 19 0803 Kosmos-2556 (Bars-M) Soyuz-2-1a Plesetsk LC43/4 Imaging 54A 337 x 556 x 97.7
May 19 2254 Starliner OFT-2 Atlas V N22 Canaveral LC41 Spaceship 55A 187 x 367 x 51.6
May 20 1030 CGSTL LEO Test Sat 1 Chang Zheng 2C/YZ-1S Jiuquan Comms 56
CGSTL LEO Test Sat 2 Comms 56
DTSW Comms 56
May 25 1835 Transporter-5 Deployer 57
Vigoride VR-3 Deployer 57
Sherpa-AC1 Deployer 57AH 519 x 536 x 97.5
ION SCV006 Deployer 57AF 520 x 536 x 97.5
CICERO-2 V1 GNSS-RO 57
CICERO-2 V2 GNSS-RO 57
SharedSat 2141 Tech 57
PTD-3 Tech 57
Lemur-2 Karen B Com/GNSS-RO 57E 525 x 536 x 97.5
Lemur-2 TennysonLily Com/GNSS-RO 57A 525 x 538 x 97.5
Lemur-2 VanDenDries Com/GNSS-RO 57B 526 x 537 x 97.5
Lemur-2 Mimi1307 Com/GNSS-RO 57AP 516 x 536 x 97.5
Sejong-1 Imaging 57J 523 x 538 x 97.5
GHGSat-C3 Imaging 57F 525 x 537 x 97.5
GHGSat-C4 Imaging 57Q 523 x 536 x 97.5
GHGSat-C5 Imaging 57N 523 x 537 x 97.5
Spark-2 Com 57AR 516 x 536 x 97.5
Urdaneta-Armsat1 Imaging 57
Planetum-1 Tech 57
Spin-1 Tech 57
CPOD 1 Tech 57
CPOD 2 Tech 57
CNCE V4 Tech 57
CNCE V5 Tech 57
Foresail-1 Tech 57
Connecta T1.1 Com 57
Centauri 5 Com 57
Nusat 28 Imaging 57
Nusat 29 Imaging 57
Nusat 30 Imaging 57
Nusat 31 Imaging 57
Varisat-1C Com 57
AMS Tech 57P
BRONCOSAT-1 Tech 57
Hawk 5A Sigint 57AB
Hawk 5B Sigint 57AA
Hawk 5C Sigint 57Y
ICEYE X17 Radar 57AG
ICEYE X18 Radar 57T
ICEYE X19 Radar 57AC
ICEYE X20 Radar 57AD
ICEYE X24 Radar 57Z
Jun 2 0400 Geely Xingguo 01 zu 01 xing ) Chang Zheng 2C Xichang Comm/Nav 58A 600 x 617 x 50.0
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 02 xing ) Comm/Nav 58B
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 03 xing ) Comm/Nav 58C
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 04 xing ) Comm/Nav 58D
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 05 xing ) Comm/Nav 58E
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 06 xing ) Comm/Nav 58F
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 07 xing ) Comm/Nav 58G
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 08 xing ) Comm/Nav 58H
Geely Xingguo 01 zu 09 xing ) Comm/Nav 58J
Jun 3 0932 Progress MS-20 Soyuz-2-1a Baykonur Cargo 59A 189 x 220 x 51.7
Jun 5 0244 Shenzhou 14 Chang Zheng 2F Jiuquan Spaceship 60A 194 x 321 x 41.5
Jun 8 2104 Nilesat 301 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 61A 313 x 44926 x 18.7
Jun 12 1743 TROPICS 1 Rocket 3.3 Canaveral LC46 Sci F03 -1250 x 532 x 29.5?
TROPICS 2 Sci F03 -1250 x 532 x 29.5?
Jun 17 1608 Starlink (Group 4-19) Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 62 253 x 327 x 53.2
Jun 18 1419 SARah-1 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Radar 63A 743 x 751 x 98.4
Jun 19 0427 Globalstar-2 FM19 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 64 1111 x 1125 x 52.0
USA 328 Sigint? 64 520 x 531 x 53.0
USA 329 Sigint? 64 520 x 531 x 53.0
USA 330 Sigint? 64 520 x 531 x 53.0
USA 331 Sigint? 64 520 x 531 x 53.0
Jun 21 0700 Wiseong-mosache Nuri Naro Dummy 65 694 x 708 x 98.0
PVSAT Tech 65 695 x 704 x 98.0
Jun 22 0208 Tianxing-1 Kuaizhou-1A Jiuquan Sci 66A 275 x 290 x 96.8
Jun 22 2150 Measat-3D Ariane 5ECA+ Kourou ELA3 Comms 67 274 x 35814 x 6.0
GSAT-24 Comms 67 260 x 35739 x 6.0
Jun 23 0222 Yaogan 35 02 zu 01 xing Chang Zheng 2D Xichang Sigint? 68 488 x 500 x 35.0
Yaogan 35 02 zu 02 xing Sigint? 68 488 x 500 x 35.0
Yaogan 35 02 zu 03 xing Sigint? 68 488 x 500 x 35.0
Jun 27 1546 Gao Fen 12-03 Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Radar? 69A 595 x 599 x 98.0
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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On Jun 4, New Shepard flight NS-21 carried Evan L. Dick, Victor Correa Hespanha, Hamish Harding, Victor
Vescovo, Katya Ecahzarreta, and Jaison Robinson on a brief suborbital spaceflight.
Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
May 4 0304 RV? Hwasong-8 LV? Sunan? Test 780 Sea of Japan
May 11 0131 Endurance Oriole III Svalbard Atm. Sci 764 Arctic
May 12 0729 RV NK SRBM Sunan Training 90 Sea of Japan
Jun 4 1325 New Shepard NS PM4-4 W Texas Tourism 107 W Texas
Jun 6 1400 Agni RV Agni 4 Kalam I. Test 500? Indian Ocean
Jun 14? USN RV x 4? Trident II D-5 Sub, Pacific Test 1000? Guam
Jun 14? USN RV x 4? Trident II D-5 Sub, Pacific Test 1000? Guam
Jun 16? USN RV x 4? Trident II D-5 Sub, Pacific Test 1000? Guam
Jun 16? USN RV x 4? Trident II D-5 Sub, Pacific Test 1000? Guam
Jun 24 0935 RockOn Terrier Imp. Orion Wallops I Education 117 Atlantic
Jun 24? Dummy stage Zoljanah Semnan Test 500? Arabian Sea
Jun 26 0219 STORT VS-30/IO? Andoya Hypersonic 100? Norw. Sea
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