Jonathan's Space Report

No 810 2022 Sep 26 Somerville, MA

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 Sep 2 astronauts Artem'ev and Matveev carried out spacewalk VKD-54a, continuing the outfitting of the European robot arm on the Nauka module The hatch was open at 1325 UTC and closed at 2113 UTC

On Sep 6 the JRMS robot arm extracted the Nanoracks NRCSD-23 cubesat deployer from the Kibo airlock NRCSD-23 ejected five cubesats

On Sep 15 at 1810 UTC the Progress MS-20 cargo ship fired its engines to raise the ISS orbit slightly; delta-V was 0 2 m/s

Soyuz MS-22 'Tsiolkovskiy' was launched on Sep 21 from Baykonur with crew Sergey Prokop'ev, Dmitriy Petelin and Frank Rubio It docked with the Rassvet module at 1706 UTC

Chinese Space Station

On Sep 1 astronauts Chen and Liu made a spacewalk from the airlock on the new Wentian module They installed a new cooling pump on Wentian and carried out other outfitting tasks; the hatch was open from 1026 to 1633 UTC

On Sep 17 Chen and Cai spacewalked from Wentian to carry out more outfitting of the new module The hatch was open from 0535 to 0947 UTC

Starlink

Starlink Group 4-23 (54 satellites) was launched on Aug 28 from Cape Canaveral Starlink Group 3-4 (46 satellites) was launched on Aug 31 from Vandenberg Starlink Group 4-20 (51 satellites) was launched on Sep 5 from Canaveral The Spaceflight Sherpa-LTC-2 satellite with the Boeing Varuna V-band demo payload was also deployed as a rideshare

Starlink Group 4-2 (34 satellites) flew on Sep 11 from Kennedy Space Center with AST Space Mobile's 1500 kg BlueWalker 3 test satellite as a rideshare

Starlink Group 4-34 (54 satellites) was launched on Sep 19 from Canaveral Starlink Group 4-35 (52 satellites) was launched on Sep 24 from Canaveral

SAST launches

SAST launched a CZ-4C from Jiuquan on Sep 2, placing the second YG-33 radar satellite in orbit

A CZ-2D launched from Xichang on Sep 6 placed the fifth YG-35 triplet in orbit

A CZ-2D launched from Jiuquan on Sep 20 orbited the third Yunhai-1 GNSS-RO meteorology satellite

CALT launches

A CZ-7A launched from Wenchang on Sep 13 placed ZX-1E in geotransfer orbit ZX-1E is probably a cover name for a Fenghuo-2 military communications satellite

EXPACE

A KZ-1A rocket launched on Sep 6 from Jiuquan put the Centispace Weili Kongjian' satellites 3 and 4 in orbit TheseGNSS augmentation' satellites provide positioning services

Ariane VA258

On Sep 7 Arianespace launched Ariane 5 vehicle L5117, flight VA258 The rocket placed the Eutelsat Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) in geotransfer orbit VHTS is a 6500 kg Thales Alenia Spacebus NEO-200 satellite with a Ka-band commmunications payload and an electric propulsion system

Delta 4H

ULA launched a Delta 4 Heavy from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sep 24, placing a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite in low Earth orbit

Electron

A Rocket Lab Electron was launched from Mahia on Sep 15 and placed the StriX-1 radar satellite in orbit for the Japanese company Synspective The launch follows two earlier prototypes, StriX-Alpha and StriX-Beta

Shiyan 14/15

Two Chinese government satellites were launched on Sep 24 on a KZ-1A from Taiyuan Shiyan 14 has a technology payload and Shiyan 15 has an imaging payload

DART

Italy's LICIACube cubesat separated from NASA's DART probe at 2314 UTC on Sep 11 Both LICIACube and DART are in a 0 94 x 1 07 AU x 3 8 deg heliocentric orbit, on course for the Didymos system DART is scheduled to impact the Didymos moon, Dimorphos, on Sep 26 LICIACube will perform a flyby and image the impact aftermath LICIACube has not yet received a US Space Force catalog number

Table of Recent Orbital Launches

Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes 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 Comms? 100A 489 x 502 x 35 0 Yaogan 35 04 zu 02 xing Comms? 100B Yaogan 35 04 zu 03 xing Comms? 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 Aug 24 0301 Beijing-3B Chang Zheng 2D Taiyuan Imaging 103A 596 x 615 x 97 9 Aug 28 0341 Starlink Group 4-23 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 104A 231 x 334 x 53 2 Aug 31 0540 Starlink Group 3-4 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 105A 306 x 319 x 97 7 Sep 2 2344 Yaogan 33-02 Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Radar 106A 680 x 688 x 98 2 Sep 5 0209 Starlink Group 4-20 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 107A 302 x 315 x 53 2 Sherpa-LTC2
Sep 6 0224 Weili Kongjian 1-S3 Kuaizhou-1A Jiuquan Nav 108A 693 x 705 x 53 5 Weili Kongjian 1-S4 Nav 108B Sep 6 0419 Yaogan 35 05 zu 01 xing Chang Zheng 2D Xichang Comms? 109A 491 x 502 x 35 0 Yaogan 35 05 zu 02 xing Comms? 109B Yaogan 35 05 zu 03 xing Comms? 109C Sep 6 0910 D3 ISS, LEO Tech 98067UE 411 x 416 x 51 6 Jagsat Tech 98067UF 413 x 416 x 51 6 Capsat-1 Tech 98067UG 413 x 415 x 51 6 Sep 6 0920 BeaverCube ISS, LEO Tech 98067UH 411 x 416 x 51 6 CLICK A Tech 98067UJ 411 x 416 x 51 6 Sep 7 2145 Eutelsat Konnect VHTS Ariane 5ECA+ Kourou ELA3 Comms 110A 308 x 60418 x 3 4 Sep 11 0120 BlueWalker 3 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Comms 111AL 502 x 518 x 53 2 Starlink Group 4-2 Comms 111 325 x 335 x 53 2 Sep 11 2314 LICIACube DART, solar orbit Probe 21-110
Sep 13 1318 Zhongxing-1E Chang Zheng 7A Wenchang LC201 Comms 112A 197 x 35785 x 13 9 Sep 15 2038 StriX-1 Electron Mahia LC1B Radar 113A 557 x 575 x 97 7 Sep 19 0018 Starlink Group 4-34 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 114A 232 x 336 x 53 2 Sep 20 2315 Yunhai-1 03 Chang Zheng 2D Jiuquan Meteo 115A 754 x 775 x 98 5
Sep 21 1354 Soyuz MS-22 Soyuz-2-1a Baykonur LC31 Spaceship 116A 184 x 212 x 51 6 Sep 24 2225 USA 338 Delta 4 Heavy Vandenberg SLC6 Imaging 117A 366 x 416 x 73 6 Sep 24 2255 Shiyan 14 Kuaizhou-1A Taiyuan Tech 118A 488 x 506 x 97 5 Shiyan 15 Tech 118B 488 x 502 x 97 5 Sep 24 2332 Starlink Group 4-35 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 119A 232 x 336 x 53 2

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches

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

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 Aug 24 0116 SpEED Demon Terrier Imp Mal Wallops I Ionos 160? Atlantic Aug 25 Spaceplane? YGCS Jiuquan Test 100? Alxa Right Banner Sep? RV Fateh-360 ?, Iran Test 100? Arabian Sea? Sep 3 0650 IAD RH-300 Mk II TERLS Reentry test 84? Arabian Sea Sep 7 0813 GT244GM (3 RV) Minuteman 3 Vandenberg LF10 Op Test 1300? Kwajalein Sep 25 2153 RV KN-? Kusong/Taechon Test 80? Sea of Japan

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