Jonathan's Space Report

No 809 2022 Aug 24 Somerville, MA

Constellations

I have updated my pages on satellite constellations; see https://planet4589 org/space/stats/conlist html and https://planet4589 org/space/stats/largecon html

International Space Station

Expedition 67 continues with Oleg Artem'ev, Denis Matveev, Sergey Korsakov, Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Samantha Cristoforetti, and Jessica Watkins aboard the ISS

On Aug 12 the JEM RMS arm extracted deployer J-SSOD-22, delivered on CRS-25, from the Kibo airlock J-SSOD-22 ejected three 1U satellites at 0945 UTC: TUMNANOSAT, for the Tech U of Moldova FUTABA, for Kyushu Tech HSU-SAT1, for Happy Science University, Chosei, Chiba

On Aug 17 Artem'ev and Matveev made a spacewalk using suits Orlan MKS-5 and MKS-4 to continue outfitting the ERA robot arm A camera was attached to the arm The spacewalk was cut short due to a power supply problem in Artem'ev's suit The Poisk airlock was depressurized from 1334 to 1758 UTC; the hatch was open from 1353:43 to 1755:18 UTC

On Aug 19 at 1505 UTC Dragon CRS-25 undocked from IDA-2 CRS-25 made its deorbit burn at 1804 UTC Aug 20 and splashed down off the coast of FLorida near 80 2W 28 9N at 1853 UTC

SAST launches

A CZ-2D was launched from Xichang on Jul 29 with three more Yaogan 35 military satellites (YG-35 Group 3) A further YG-35 launch (Group 4) followed on Aug 19

A CZ-4B was launched from Taiyuan on Aug 4 with the Guomang satellite for carbon inventory monitoring Two small secondary payloads, HEAD-2G and Minhang Shaonian Xing, were also deployed

SAST launched a CZ-6 with 16 Jilin-1 imaging satellites on Aug 10, including 10 in the Jilin-1 GaoFen high resolution optical imaging series, and the first six in the Jilin-1 Hongwai A (infrared imaging) series

A CZ-2D was launched from Taiyuan on Aug 24 with the second Beijing-3 commercial imaging satellite for the 21st Century Aerospace Tech company

ALE-1

The Japanese ALE-1 satellite was launched to a 500 km orbit in Jan 2019; it used a drag sail, deployed in Dec 2019, to descend to 410 km (below the ISS) The drag sail was jettisoned at 2332 UTC Jul 26, setting up the satellite to begin its mission of creating artificial meteor showers for entertainment The sail reentered on Aug 3

Electron 29

A Rocket Lab Electron was launched on Aug 4 on the NROL-199 mission to place the USA 335 secret satellite in a 70 degree inclination orbit

SBIRS GEO-6

The SBIRS GEO-6 early warning satellite was launched on Aug 4 to geotransfer orbit by Atlas V flight AV-097

CSSHQ 2

The second Chinese small spaceplane, Chongfu Shiyong Shiyan Hangtian Qi, 'Reusable Test Space Vehicle', was launched on Aug 4 to a 346 x 593 km x 50 0 deg orbit

KPLO

The Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, Danuri, was launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug 4 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 It was placed on a trajectory towards Sun-Earth l1 and is expected to eventually reach lunar orbit The Falcon 9 second stage is also on a trajectory towards L1, but its final orbital state has not been made public

SSLV-D1

ISRO's new small launch vehicle, SSLV, carried out its first flight (SSLV-D1) on Aug 7 The three solid-propellant main stages fired successfully but the small liquid-propellant orbit insertion stage appears not to have made the insertion burn due to a combination of hardware and software issues ISRO announced that the vehicle reached a 76 x 356 km orbit Given this marginal orbit, I assign the launch the designation 2022-U02 The payloads, EOS-02 and AzaadiSat, separated from the VTM fourth stage I expect that all three objects reentered at first perigee at about 0443 UTC in the eastern Pacific, possibly near 98W 0N but with several degrees uncertainty

Gushenxing-1

Xinghe Dongli (Beijing) kongjian keji YG ("Galactic Energy Co ") had its third orbital launch success in a row with the launch of Gushenxing-1 (`Ceres-1') Y3 The rocket placed two Taijing-1 imaging satellites in orbit for Minospace and the Donghai 1 satellite for Shanghai ASES

Kuaizhou-1A

An EXPACE Kuaizhou-1A was launched on Aug 23 with the Chuangxing-16A technology satellite developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute for Microsatellite Innovation

Starlink

Starlink Group 4-26 was launched from Kennedy Space Center on Aug 10 with 52 satellites Starlink Group 3-3 was launched from Vandenberg on Aug 12 with 46 satellites Starlink Group 4-27 was launched from Canaveral on Aug 19 with 53 satellites

Soyuz rideshare

Roskosmos launched a Soyuz-1B/Fregat from Baykonur on Aug 9 The main payload was the Khayyam satellite, a 1-metre-class imaging satellite built by the Russian company VNII EM for Iran

As secondary payloads attached to the Fregat there were four 12U cubesat deployers from the Moscow company Aerospace Capital, which ejected sixteen 3U cubesats for Russian universities and companies:

CubeSX-HSE-2 - VSHE (School of Higher Economics, Moscow), imaging and AIS for Arctic studies Monitor-1 - MGU (Moscow), radiation detector UTMN - Tyumen State U , for Arctic environmental studies CYCLOPS - Baltic State Technical U, technology experiments Siren - Belgorod State U , study of lilac seeds KAI-1 - Kazan State Tech U, with amateur radio payload RS26S Kuzbass-300 - Kuzbass State Tech U, with a fire detection camera and RS34S amateur radio payload Skoltech-B1 and B2, - Skolkovo Inst of Sci and Tech , intersatellite communications experiment Polytech Universe 1 and 2 - Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic Univ , radio spectrum monitoring VIZARD-SS1, - Moscow companies Vizard and NIS, AIS and KINEIS payloads for Arctic studies Geoskan-Edel'veys - Test satellite from GK Geoskan with Fakel cold gas thruster and RS20S amateur radio payload MIET-AIS - Moscow Inst of Electronic Tech, with AIS payload ISOI - Inst Sistem Obrabotki Izobrazhenie (Image Processing Systems Inst ), with hyperspectral camera ReshUCube - Reshetnev Univ student satellite with imager and radiation monitor

The Soyuz third stage fell in the Greenland Sea at about 0609 UTC; the Fregat stage was deorbited over the equatorial Pacific at about 0803 UTC

USA 326

A debris object (53315) has been cataloged associated with the NRO's USA 326 spy satellite, launched on Feb 2 to a 12:06 local time sun-sync orbit The object is in a 375 x 388 km orbit; it was likely a sensor cover jettisoned at the time of launch and only now cataloged It reentered on Aug 20

USA 326 remains in a 489 x 518 km x 97 4 deg orbit, according to hobbyist observers

Kosmos-2558

The Kosmos-2258 satellite was launched from Plesetsk on Aug 1 It is believed to be a 14F150 Nivelir satellite, and was launched into the same orbital plane as the US NRO's USA 326 satellite It passed about 70 km from the satellite a few days after launch and every few days after

CZ-5B Y3

The CZ-5B Y3 core stage from then Wentian launch reentered at 1651 UTC Jul 30 over the island of Borneo Debris was found on the ground in both the Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia sections of the island

Table of Recent Orbital Launches

Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes Jul 1 2315 WFOV Atlas V 541 Canaveral LC41 Early Warn 73A 36106 x 36168 x 0 0 USSF 12 Ring Tech 73B 36167 x 36323 x 0 0 Jul 2 0653 CTIM-FD LauncherOne Cosmic Girl, Pacific Solar 74 492 x 498 x 45 0 GPX-2 Tech 74 Recurve Tech 74 Slingshot-1 Tech 74 NACHOS-2 Sci 74 Gunsmoke-L1 Comms 74 MISR-B Imaging? 74 Jul 3 0750? SNUGLITE-2 PVSAT, LEO Tech 65F 693 x 704 x 98 0 Jul 5 0925? MIMAN PVSAT, LEO Tech 65G 693 x 704 x 98 0 Jul 7 0918 Glonass-K No 16L Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat Plesetsk Nav 75A 19140 x 19177 x 64 9 Jul 7 1311 Starlink Group 4-21 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 76 267 x 327 x 53 2 Jul 11 0139 Starlink Group 3-1 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 77 306 x 319 x 97 7 Jul 12 1630 Tianlian 2-03 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Comms 78A 188 x 35828 x 27 2 Jul 13 0630 USA 334 Electron Mahia LC1A Sigint? 79A 590 x 590 x 40? Jul 13 1313 LARES 2 Vega C CSG ELV Geod 80A 5882 x 5896 x 70 1 AstroBio Life Sci 80 5832 x 5864 x 70 1 GreenCube Life Sci 80 Trisat-R Tech 80 MTCube-2 Tech 80 Celesta Tech 80 Alpha Tech 80 Jul 15 0044 Dragon CRS-25 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Cargo 81A 207 x 267 x 51 6 Jul 15 2257 Siwei GJ2-01 Chang Zheng 2C Taiyuan Radar? 82A 484 x 500 x 97 4 Siwei GJ2-02 Radar? 82B Jul 17 1420 Starlink Group 4-22 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 83 320 x 332 x 53 2 Jul 18 0800? FossaSat 2E-13 Vigoride, LEO Imaging 57AW Veery FS-1 Imaging 57AX Jul 21 1602 YuZGU-55 No 5 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TQ Jul 21 1604 YuZGU-55 No 6 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TZ Jul 21 1608 YuZGU-55 No 7 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TU Jul 21 1613 YuZGU-55 No 8 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TS Jul 21 1618 YuZGU-55 No 9 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TT Jul 21 1623 YuZGU-55 No 10 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TR Jul 21 1626 YuZGU-55 No 11 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TW Jul 21 1634 YuZGU-55 No 12 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TV Jul 21 1636 Tsiolkovskiy-Ryazan No 1 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TX Jul 21 1640 Tsiolkovskiy-Ryazan No 2 ISS, LEO Tech 98067TY Jul 22 1349 Starlink Group 3-2 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 84 306 x 319 x 97 7 Jul 24 0622 Wentian Chang Zheng 5B Wenchang LC101 Module 85A 166 x 318 x 51 3 Jul 24 1338 Starlink Group 4-25 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 86 231 x 335 x 53 2 Jul 27 0412 XJS Lijian-1 Jiuquan LC130 Tech 87A 492 x 510 x 97 4 Guidao Daqi MTSW Sci 87 Jinan 1 Tech 87 DZS 1 Tech 87 DZS 2 Tech 87 Nanyue Kexue Xing Sci 87 Jul 29 1328 Yaogan 35-03-01 Chang Zheng 2D Xichang Sigint 88A 483 x 500 x 35 0 Yaogan 35-03-02 Sigint 88B Yaogan 35-03-03 Sigint 88C Jul 30 1200? FossaSat 2E7? Vigoride, LEO Imaging 57AY FossaSat 2E8? Imaging 57AZ Aug 1 2025 Kosmos-2558 Soyuz-2-1v/Volga Plesetsk Inspector 89A 439 x 462 x 97 2 Aug 4 0308 Goumang Chang Zheng 4B Taiyuan Climate 90A 489 x 502 x 97 5 HEAD-2G Comms 90 Minhang Shaonian Xing Edu 90 Aug 4 0500 USA 335 Electron Mahia LC1B Com/Sigint? 91A Aug 4 1029 SBIRS GEO-6 Atlas V 421 Canaveral SLC41 EarlyWarn 92A 4415 x 34879 x 18 4 Aug 4 1600? CSSHQ 2 Chang Zheng 2F Jiuquan Spaceplane 93A 346 x 593 x 50 0 Aug 4 2308 Danuri Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Lunar probe 94A 245 x 1239000 x 29 6 Aug 7 0348 EOS-02 SSLV Satish Dhawan LP1 Imaging U02 76 x 356 x 41 6? AzaadiSAT Comms U02 76 x 356 x 41 6? Aug 9 0411 Taijing 1-01 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Imaging 95A 437 x 546 x 97 4 Taijing 1-02 Imaging 95B Donghai-1 Tech 95C Aug 9 0552 Khayyam Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat Baykonur LC31 Imaging 96A 490 x 494 x 97 4 CubeSX-HSE-2 Imaging 96 Monitor-1 Sci 96 UTMN Imaging 96 CYCLOPS Tech 96 Siren Bio 96 KAI-1 Tech 96 Kuzbass-30 Imaging 96 Skoltech-B1 Com 96 Skoltech-B2 Com 96 Polytech Universe-1 Tech 96 Polytech Universe-2 Tech 96 VIZARD-SS1 Com 96 Geoskan-Edel'veys Com 96 MIET-AIS Com 96 ISOI Imaging 96 ReshUCube Tech 96 Aug 10 0214 Starlink Group 4-26 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 97 231 x 333 x 53 2 Aug 10 0450 Jilin-1 GF03D-35 Chang Zheng 6 Taiyuan Imaging 98 532 x 542 x 97 5 Jilin-1 GF03D-36 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-37 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-38 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-39 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-40 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-41 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-42 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-43 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 GF03D-09 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 HW A01 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 HW A02 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 HW A03 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 HW A04 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 HW A05 Imaging 98 Jilin-1 HW A06 Imaging 98 Aug 12 0945 TUMNANOSAT ISS, LEO Tech 98067UB? 408 x 418 x 51 6 FUTABA Tech 98067UC? HSU-SAT-1 Tech 98067UD? Aug 12 2140 Starlink Group 3-3 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 99A 306 x 319 x 97 7 Aug 19 1736 Yaogan 35 04 zu 01 xing Chang Zheng 2D Xichang LC3 Sigint? 100A 489 x 502 x 35 0 Yaogan 35 04 zu 02 xing Sigint? 100B Yaogan 35 04 zu 03 xing Sigint? 100C
Aug 19 1921 Starlink Group 4-27 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 101 231 x 336 x 53 2 Aug 23 0236 Chuangxin-16A Kuaizhou-1A Xichang Tech 102A 589 x 596 x 29 0 Chuangxin-16B Tech Aug 24 0301 Beijing-3B Chang Zheng 2D Taiyuan Imaging 103A 596 x 615 x 97 9

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches

Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target

Jul 6 1347 SISTINE Black Brant 9 Arnhem UV Astron 243 N Terr Jul 11 1101 DEUCE Black Brant 9 Arnhem UV Astron 262 N Terr Jul 23 2000 S-520-RD1 S-520 Uchinoura Hypersonic 168 Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? S China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? S China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? S China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? E China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? E China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? E China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? E China Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 0600? RV DF-15? E China Training 200? Phillipine Sea Aug 4 1357 NS-22 New Shepard W Texas Tourist 107 W Texas Aug 11 1420 S-520-32 S-520 Uchinoura Ionosphere 279 Phillipine Sea Aug 11 2208 Rocksat-X Terrier Imp Mal Wallops I Education 120? Atlantic Aug 16 0749 GT243GM Minuteman 3 Vandenberg LF09 Op Test 1300? Kwajalein Aug 22 0530 Micro-X Black Brant 9 White Sands XR Astron 254 White Sands

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