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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 861 draft 2026 Oct 1 Bromley, UK
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Update:
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Construction on my new Space Library near London is now well under way.
The books are scheduled to arrive on Tuesday!
Updates at https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
(further donations welcome)
ISS
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Expedition 75 is underway.
Dragon Grace C213.2 was launched on Oct 1 on the Crew-13 mission, carrying Jessica Watkins,
Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, and Sergey Teteryantnikov. It docked with IDA-2 at 2305 UTC Oct 1.
Transporter 18
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The Transporter 18 rideshare mission was launched on Oct 1.
NROL-97
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On Oct 2 SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy from KSC on the NROL-97 mission with the USA 708 payload, likely to medium
Earth orbit like USA 310 in 2020.
Table of Recent Orbital (and near-Orbital) Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Sep 26 0039 StriX-12 Electron Mahia LC1B Radar 223A 544 x 566 x 37.9
Sep 26 1400 USSF-385 (SBST R-3) Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms? 224
Sep 28 1249 Starlink Group 31-1 Starship V3 Starbase OLP2 Comms 225 262 x 275 x 30.5
Ship 41 Test 225AC
Oct 1 1510 Dragon Crew-13 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Spaceship 226 193 x 230 x 51.6
Oct 1 1832 Transporter 18 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Rideshare 227 513 x 517 x 97.4
Oct 2 0354 USA 708 Falcon Heavy Kennedy LC39A Sigint? 228A 11000 x 11000 x 58?
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
Oct 1 0651 MAPHEUS 17 RK/IM Kiruna Micrograv 290 ESRANGE
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