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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 847 draft                                                     2025 Jun 23 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 73 continues.

SpaceX launched Dragon C213 'Grace' on Jun 25 for the Axiom Space Axiom-4 mission,
commanded by Peggy Whitson (Axiom Space), with ISRO's Group Capt. Shubanshu Shukla as
pilot. Mission specialists were ESA's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski
and Hungary's Tibor Kapu. Axiom-4 docked with ISS at the IDA3 port at 1031 UTC Jun 26.


Chinese Space Station
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Cheng Dong and Chen Zhongrui made a spacewalk on Jun 26 to install more debris
shields. Hatch open was at 0704 UTC and hatch close at 1329 UTC.


Starlink
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Starlink Group 10-16 (27 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 25 from Canaveral.
Starlink Group 10-34 (27 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 28 from Canaveral.
Starlink Group 15-7 (26 Ku sats) was launched on Jun 28 from Vandenberg.

Transporter 14
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SpaceX launched the Transporter 14 rideshare mission on Jun 23 to 1308 LTDN sun-sync
orbit. One group of satellites was released in a 512 x 520 km orbit; a
second group in a 592 x 593 km orbit; and the Mission Possible capsule was released
in a suborbital trajectory after the second stage's deorbit burn.


Electron
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Rocket Lab launched an Electron from Mahia on Jun 26 with a cluster of Hawkeye 360 commercial
sigint satellites, Hawk 12A, 12B and 12C, and a Hawkeye 360 next-gen test satellite, Kestrel-0A.

Rocket Lab launched an Electron from Mahia on Jun 28; payload is thought to have been the Echostar
Australia (Sirion) Lyra-2 communications satellite to a 1924 LTDN sun-sync orbit.

H2A
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JAXA/MHI's final H2A launch, H2A F50, put the 2900 kg Ibuki-GW (GOSAT-GW) greenhouse gas observing satellite
in a 0125 LTDN sun-sync orbit on Jun 28.


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

Jun 17 0336   Starlink Group 15-9                  Falcon 9              Vandenberg SLC4E   Comms  129  265 x 279 x 70.0
Jun 17?       USA 547                                                    LPDE-2, GEO        Tech? 22144M 35700 x 36100 x 4.7?
Jun 18 0555   Starlink Group 10-18                 Falcon 9              Canaveral LC40     Comms  130  264 x 273 x 53.2
Jun 19 0300   Kosmos-2589?                         Angara A5             Plesetsk LC35      Tech?  131A 20270 x 51108 x 1.1
Jun 20 1237   Zhongxing 9C                         Chang Zheng 3B        Xichang LC2        Comms  132A 241 x 35802 x 27.5
Jun 23 0558   Starlink Group 10-23                 Falcon 9              Canaveral LC40     Comms  133  264 x 273 x 53.2
Jun 23 1054   Kuiper KA02 01 to 27                 Atlas V 551           Canaveral LC41     Comms  134  455 x 459 x 51.9
Jun 23 2125   Transporter 14                       Falcon 9              Vandenberg SLC4E   Rideshare 135 592 x 593 x 97.8
Jun 25 0631   Axiom Ax-4                           Falcon 9              Kennedy LC39A      Spaceship 136 189 x 208 x 51.6
Jun 25 1954   Starlink Group 10-16                 Falcon 9              Canaveral LC40     Comms  137  266 x 274 x 53.2
Jun 26 1728   Hawk 12A/12B/12C                     Electron              Mahia LC1A         Sigint 138  512 x 532 x 97.4
              Kestrel-0A                                                                    Sigint 138  512 x 532 x 97.4
Jun 28 0426   Starlink Group 10-34                 Falcon 9              Canaveral LC40     Comms  139  266 x 274 x 53.2
Jun 28 0708   Lyra 2?                              Electron              Mahia LC1B         Comms  140A 649 x 662 x 96.0
Jun 28 1633   Ibuki-GW                             H-IIA                 Tanegashima        Climate 141A  666 x 668 x 98.1
Jun 28 1713   Starlink Group 15-7                  Falcon 9              Vandenberg SLC4E   Comms  142

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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New Shepard NS-33 launched at about 1440 UTC Jun 29 to around 105 km apogee;
flight duration 10m8s. James Sitkin, Leland Larson, Owolabi Salis,
Frederick Rescigno Jr, Allie Kuehner, and Carl R Kuehner III became space
travellers 745 to 750.


Date UT       Payload           Rocket              Site                 Mission       Apogee    Target 

May 31 1339   NS-32             New Shepard         W Texas              Tourist         105     W Texas
Jun 20        SEED 1            Terrier Imp.Mal.    Kwajalein            Ionos           250?    Pacific
Jun 24        FTX-26a Target    IRBM-T3?            C-19, N Pacific      Target         1000?    N Pacific
Jun 26 0930   RockOn            Terrier Imp.Orion   Wallops              Education       114?    Atlantic
Jun 29 1440   NS-33             New Shepard         W Texas              Tourist         105     W Texas

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