From: mailto: Jonathan's Space Report

No 842 2025 Feb 19 Somerville, MA

Annual Report

The 2024 annual report is available at https://planet4589 org/space/papers/space24 pdf Latest corrected version is v1 4, if you downloaded an earlier version please replace it

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International Space Station

Expedition 72 continues with Suni Williams (ISS commander), Barry Wilmore, Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Don Pettit, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov

US spacewalk EVA-92 on Jan 30, by Williams and Whitmore, saw the successful retrieval of the failed S-band radio frequency group (RFG) package

Proba-3

The Proba-3 occulter spacecraft separated from Proba-3 coronagraph at 2300 UTC on Jan 14

CALT launches

CALT launched a CZ-3B on Jan 23 with the military TJS 14 sat, mission unknown It was placed in GEO at 18 3E

CALT launched the first CZ-8A on Feb 11 with the second group of Hulianwang Weixing Digui low orbit internet satellites

SAST launches

SAST launched a CZ-6A on Jan 23 with 18 more Qianfan internet satellites

Starlink

Starlink Group 11-6 (23 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Jan 24 to a 53 deg orbit Starlink Group 12-7 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Jan 27 to a 43 deg orbit Starlink Group 11-4 (22 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Feb 3 to a 53 deg orbit Starlink Group 12-3 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 4 to a 43 deg orbit Starlink Group 12-9 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 8 to a 43 deg orbit Starlink Group 11-10 (23 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Feb 11 to a 53 deg orbit Starlink Group 12-18 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 11 to a 43 deg orbit Starlink Group 12-8 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 15 to a 43 deg orbit Starlink Group 10-12 (23 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 18

The Falcon 9 second stage from the Group 11-4 launch failed to deorbit and remained in low orbit until its uncontrolled reentry on Feb 19 on a path from the Irish Sea to Poland and Ukraine A COPV tank from the stage survived reentry and crashed in Poznan

Other Falcon 9 missions

On Jan 30 SpaceX launched the Spainsat NG-1 military comms satellite for Spain's Hisdesat to supersynch transfer orbit By Feb 18 it was in a 25626 x 71267 km x 19 4 deg orbit as the PPS-5000 electric propulsion system of the 6100 kg Airbus Eurostar-NEO satellite slowly appreached GEO

On Feb 4 SpaceX launched two further Maxar Legion imaging satellites to LEO

ISRO

ISRO launched GSLV Mk II flight F15 on Jan 29, placing the NVS-02 navigation satellite in geotransfer orbit However, the satellite's own propulsion system failed to work and NVS-02 wsa stranded in that initial orbit It will eventually make an uncontrolled reentry

H3

Japan's JAXA launched the QZS 6 (Michibiki 6) navigation sat on an H3 to geotransfer orbit on Feb 2 By Feb 13 it was on station in GEO at 90 5E

RocketLab

Five more Kineis IoT satellites were launched on an Electron from Mahia on Feb 8 to 0906 LTDN SSO

BlackSky Global's first Gen3 satellite was launched on an Electron from Mahia on Feb 18

Soyuz

Russia launched three Defense Ministry satellites on a Soyuz-2-1v/Volga from Plesetsk on Feb 5 to 82 deg orbit

New Glenn

Tracking data from the Russian Vimpel network indicates the New Glenn second stage may have fragmented upon passivation, with over 60 debris objects tracked in its 2400 x 19000 km orbit No objects have yet been cataloged by US Space Force

Blue Ghost

Firefly's Blue Ghost entered a 150 x 5673 km lunar orbit on Feb 14 at 0150 UTC On Feb 18 the orbit was lowered to around 100 x 150 km

Resilience

iSpace's Resilience lander made an 8400 km lunar flyby at 2243 UTC Feb 14

Transporter 12

Orbital data for the Transporter 12 objects is now available, but most of the objects are not yet matched up with specific satellites

Table of Recent Orbital (and near-Orbital) Launches

Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes

Jan 15 0611 Blue Ghost 1 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Lunar 10 189 x 322453 x 35 0 Resilience Lunar 10 176 x 362529 x 35 2 Jan 16 0703 DS-1/Blue Ring Pathfinder New Glenn Canaveral LC36 Tech 11A 2409 x 19224 x 30 0 Jan 16 2237 Ship 33 Starship Starbase Tech F01 -3170 x 146 x 26 Starlink Simulators 1-10 Jan 17 0407 PAK EO-1 Chang Zheng 2D Jiuquan Imaging 12 516 x 528x 97 5 Tianlu-1 Rem Sens 12 Lantan-1 Rem Sens 12 Jan 20 1011 Yunyao-1 37 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Met 13 528 x 547 x 97 6 Yunyao-1 38 Met 13 Yunyao-1 39 Met 13 Yunyao-1 40 Met 13 Jitianxing A-05 xing Imaging 13 Jan 21 0524 Starlink Group 13-1 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 14 305 x 312 x 43 0 USA 485 Unknown 14X USA 486 Unknown 14Y Jan 21 1545 Starlink Group 11-8 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 15 269 x 277 x 53 2 Jan 23 0515 Qianfan Jigui 06 (1 to 18) Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Comms 16 Jan 23 1532 TJS 14 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Sigint? 17A 189 x 35807 x 28 5 Jan 24 1407 Starlink Group 11-6 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 18 267 x 280 x 53 2 Jan 27 2205 Starlink Group 12-7 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 19 285 x 292 x 43 0 Jan 29 0053 NVS-02 GSLV Mk II Satish Dhawan SLP Nav 20A 164 x 37593 x 20 8 Jan 30 0134 Spainsat NG-1 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 21A 472 x 68525 x 26 8 Feb 1 2302 Starlink Group 11-4 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 22A 278 x 293 x 51 6 Feb 2 0830 Michibiki 6 H3 Tanegashima Nav 23A 250 x 35225 x 21 5 Feb 4 1015 Starlink Group 12-3 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 24A 287 x 289 x 43 0 Feb 4 2313 Maxar Legion WV5 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Imaging 25A 699 x 706 x 45 1 Maxar Legion WV6 Imaging 25B 446 x 452 x 45 0 Feb 5 0359 Kosmos-2581 Soyuz-2-1V/Volga Plesetsk LC43/4 Imaging? 26 576 x 594 x 82 0 Kosmos-2582 Imaging? 26 Kosmos-2583 Imaging? 26 Feb 8 1918 Starlink Group 12-9 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 27 284 x 291 x 43 0 Feb 8 2043 Kineis-2A Electron Mahia Comms 28E 636 x 652 x 98 0 Kineis-2B Comms 28G Kineis-2C Comms 28B Kineis-2D Comms 28C Kineis-2E Comms 28D Feb 11 0209 Starlink Group 11-10 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 29 275 x 288 x 53 2 Feb 11 0930 HWD 2-01 to 2-09 Chang Zheng 8A Wenchang LC201 Comms 30 860 x 871 x 50 0 Feb 11 1853 Starlink Group 12-18 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 31 285 x 292 x 43 0 Feb 15 0614 Starlink Group 12-8 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 32 285 x 291 x 43 0 Feb 18 2317 BlackSky Gen3 Electron Mahia LC1B Imaging 33A 466 x 476 x 59 0 Feb 18 2321 Starlink Group 10-12 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 34 273 x 284 x 53 2

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches

Date UT Payload Rocket Site Mission Apogee Target

Jan 14 0015 HTB-2 T-T-Oriole Wallops I Target 200? Atlantic Jan 24 1735 ORIGIN 1 Imp Malemute Kiruna Atmosphere 100? ESRANGE Feb 2 0707 GIRAFF 1 Black Brant 9 Poker Flat Auroral 200? Alaska Feb 4 1600 NS-29 New Shepard West Texas Lunar grav sim 105 West Texas Feb 9 0835 GIRAFF 2 Black Brant 9 Poker Flat Auroral 200? Alaska Feb 19 0900 GT252 Minuteman 3 Vandenberg LF09 Op Test 1300? Kwajalein

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