Jonathan's Space Report

No 807 2022 Jun 27 Somerville, MA

International Space Station

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Starlink Group 4-19 (53 satellites) was launched from Kennedy Space Center on Jun 17

SARah

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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