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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 757 draft 2018 Nov 6 Somerville, MA
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JSR 756 is now permalinked at http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.756.txt
International Space Station
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Expedition 57 continues aboard the ISS with astronauts Gerst,
Prokop'ev, and Aunon-Chancellor.
The next Soyuz crew is scheduled for launch on Dec 3.
The Kounotori 7 cargo ship was unberthed from Harmony by the Canadarm-2
at about 1215 UTC Nov 7 and released into orbit at 1651 UTC.
For the first time, an HTV departed the station without its EP (Exposed
Pallet). The HTV 7 EP remains on the MBS on the ISS truss, waiting
for a spacewalk to install the new batteries it is carrying.
Konoutori-7 made its deorbit burn at 2114 UTC on Nov 10 to an
orbit of about -55 x 380 km, reentering over the Pacific at 2141 UTC.
At 2124 UTC the HSRC reentry capsule was ejected; it also reentered
at 2138 UTC and came down on a parachute to a splashdown at 155E 21N
at 2206 UTC. This was the first HTV mission to carry an HSRC (HTV
Small Return Capsule) to return intact experiment samples to Earth.
MetOp-C
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Arianespace launched a Soyuz/Fregat on Nov 7 from the Centre Spatial
Guyanais, carrying the MetOp-C weather satellite for the European
Meteorological Satellite Organization, EUMETSAT. The Fregat stage, No. 133-14, was
deorbited after releasing the payload and reentered over the Indian Ocean
at about 0318 UTC.
Electron
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RocketLab made its second successful orbital launch on Nov 11, placing
several payloads in orbit.
CICERO-10 (TYVAK-0086) is a 10 kg GPS-radio-occultation weather satellite built by
Tyvak for GeoOptics (Pasadena).
Two Lemur-2 satellites from Spire Global carry GPS-RO, AIS and ADS-B payloads.
The first two satellites from Fleet Space Technologies (Adelaide), which is developing
a constellation to relay data from IoT devices.
IRVINE01 is a 1U cubesat with a camera and an electric thruster, built by
schoolchildren in Irvine and Tustin, California and owned by the Irvine Public Schools Foundation.
According to Dr Brent Freeze of the Irvine cubesat project, IRVINE01 and
the soon-to-be-launched IRVINE02 are operated by `Team Comms' via Woodbridge High School. `Team
Prime' at University High School runs the science campaign.
'Pride of Bavaria', from High Performance Space Structure Systems GmbH (Munich), is a
NABEO (ADEO-N) drag sail experiment
deployed from (and remaining attached to) the Curie kick stage.
NABEO stands for NAnosat Bremssegel Entfaltversuch im Orbit
(Nanosat De-Orbit-sail Deployment-demonstration in Orbit).
GSLV3
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India's ISRO carried out the second successful orbital launch of its
flagship GSLV Mk III rocket. The GSLV Mk III consists of a
4.0-metre-diameter L110 core stage using two N2O4/UDMH High Thrust Vikas
Engines (HTVE), two S200 solid boosters and a C25 LOX/LH2 upper stage.
The C25 stage made a single long burn to a standard geotransfer orbit
and deployed its 3423-kg payload, GSAT-29.
GSAT-29 is a multibeam I3K-bus comms satellite to be located at 55E.
It will test new technologies and provide service to
Jammu/Kashmir and NE India.
Falcon 9
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center on Nov 15.
The second stage and the payload, Es'hailsat-2, were placed in geotransfer
orbit. Es'hailsat-2 is a Mitsubishi Electric model DS-2000, providing
Ku and Ka band comms for Es'hailsat of Qatar. It also carries the
AMSAT P4A amateur radio payload. The Falcon 9 first stage, B1047,
was on its second flight and landed successfully on the droneship
Of Course I Still Love You.
Note
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The IAU has asked me to point out that the informal name "Ultima Thule"
for 2014 MU69 is not an IAU-approved name for the object.
There is still no eighth payload cataloged from the Oct 29 CZ-2C launch. (Press
reports said there were eight, but only identified seven by name).
I am beginning to conclude someone in the Chinese space program just cannot count.
It's also still unclear whether the SPP payload on the Oct 24 launch is one of the
three cataloged debris objects from the launch, or another attached payload
on the rocket stage.
Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Oct 20 0145 BepiColombo ) Ariane 5ECA Kourou ELA3 Probe 80A S43653 170 x-78605 x 5.5
Mio ) Probe 80A A09204 170 x-78605 x 5.5
Oct 24 2257 Hai Yang 2 02) Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan Rem.Sensing 81A S43655 950 x 965 x 99.4 0600LT SSO
Tangguo Guan ) Comms 81B S43656 641 x 940 x 99.5
SPP ) Tech 81?
Oct 25 0015 Kosmos-2528 Soyuz-2-1B Plesetsk LC43/4 Sigint 82A S43657 900 x 910 x 67.1
Oct 27 0800 Weilai Zhuque-1 Jiuquan Tech F02 F01530 -3090?x 334 x 97.6
Oct 29 0043 Zhongfa Haiyang W.) Rem.Sensing 83A S43662 510 x 523 x 97.5 0700LT SSO
Xiaoxiang-1 02 TY1-02 ) Tech 83 510?x 520?x 97.5
Xinghe TY1-03 ) Imaging 83 510?x 520?x 97.5
Changsha gaoxin TY4-01 ) Chang Zheng 2C Jiuquan Tech/Com 83H S43669 510 x 523 x 97.5
Zhaojin-1 TY4-02 ) Astronomy 83 510?x 520?x 97.5
Tianqi-1 ) Comms 83 510?x 520?x 97.5
UNKNOWN ) Tech 83 510?x 520?x 97.5
CubeBel-1 ) Comms 83E S43666 505 x 524 x 97.5
Oct 29 0408 Ibuki 2 ) Climate 84B S43672 597 x 617 x 97.9 1300LT SSO
KhalifaSat ) H2A 202 Tanegashima Imaging 84F S43676 592 x 612 x 97.8
Diwata 2 ) Imaging 84H S43678 587 x 599 x 97.8
Ten-Koh ) Tech 84A S43671 600 x 619 x 97.8
Aoi ) Astronomy 84K? S43681? 587 x 599 x 97.8
AUTCube-2 ) Tech 84J? S43679? 585 x 598 x 97.8
Oct 28 0615 DebrisSat-2 RemDeb, LEO Tech 9867PR S43680 399 x 404 x 51.6
Nov 1 1557 Beidou DW 41 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Navigation 85A S43683 197 x 35815 x 28.5
Nov 3 2017 Kosmos-2529 Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat Plesetsk LC43/4 Navigation 86A S43687 19123 x 19163 x 64.8
Nov 7 0047 MetOp-C Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat CSG ELS Weather 87A S43689 806 x 807 x 98.7 0930LT SSO
Nov 11 0350 IRVINE01 ) Tech 88D S43693 493 x 516 x 85.0
CICERO-10 ) Electron Mahia LC1 Weather 88A S43690 499 x 517 x 85.0
Lemur-2-Zupanski ) Weather/Com 88 495?x 515?x 85.0
Lemur-2-Chanusiak ) Weather/Com 88 495?x 515?x 85.0
Proxima I ) Com 88 495?x 515?x 85.0
Proxima II ) Com 88 495?x 515?x 85.0
Pride of Bavaria ) Tech 88 495?x 515?x 85.0
Nov 14 1138 GSAT-29 GSLV Mk III Satish Dhawan SLP Comms 89A S43698 181 x 35737 x 21.5
Nov 15 2046 Es'hailsat-2 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 90A S43700 201 x 37688 x 25.0
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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The suborbital launches table includes known flights above 80 km.
Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
Oct 26 FTM-45 Target UNKNOWN Kauai Target 150? Pacific
Oct 26 FTM-45 KV Aegis SM-3-IIA DDG-113, Kauai Interceptor 150? FTM-45 intercept
Nov 7 0701 GT228GM Minuteman 3 Vandenberg Op. Test 1300? Kwajalein?
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