Jonathan's Space Report
No. 813 draft 2022 Nov 18 Somerville, MA
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Artemis I
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Artemis I entered the lunar gravitational sphere of influence a 1910 UTC
Nov 21. It made the powered flyby burn at 1244 UTC Nov 21, and passed
through a 130.6 km altitude perilune over the farside crater Ibn Firnas
at 1257 UTC. It is now heading outward from the Moon and reached a 92712
km apolune height on Nov 25. A burn at 2152 UTC Nov 25 put Orion in a
distant retrograde orbit (DRO). Orion orbited between 69200 and 86300 km
from the Moon, making a departure burn at 2153 UTC Dec 1 to set it on a
close lunar flyby trajectory fo 130 x 108450 km.
The cubesats deployed from the SLS ICPS OSA have had mixed success. All of them flew
past the Moon on Nov 21 at heights of 1000 to 3000 km.
LunaHMap failed to fire its thrusters and was not able to enter lunar orbit, although
it did make science measurements from its 1351 km flyby at 1552 UTC on Nov 21. It
is hoped to fire the propulsion system in about a month from now in a second attempt
to achieve lunar orbit.
OMOTENASHI failed to establish stable comms with Earth and also made a lunar flyby
instead of diverting to the planned lunar landing.
Communications were also not established with the NEAScout solar sail craft.
The Team Miles cubesat also appears not to have communicated with the ground.
LunIR is communicating but with low signal strength.
Biosentinel, EQUULEUS, ArgoMoon, CuSP and Lunar IceCube are thought to be working
but few details are available.
International Space Station
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Expedition 68 continues.
Dragon cargo mission CRS-26 was launched on Nov 26 using capsule C211 and docked
with IDA-3/PMA-3 at 1239 UTC Nov 27. On Nov 30 the Canadarm-2 transferred
the IROSA array payload from the CRS-26 trunk to the MBS POA on the truss.
Four cubesats were deployed from the Kibo airlock on Dec 2 using the J-SSOD No. 23
deployer.
On Dec 3 astronauts Cassada and Rubio made spacewalk US EVA-82, in suits
3013 and 3004, to move the 3A IROSA solar array from the IROSA package
on the POA to the 3A solar array mast on the S4 truss. The hatch was
open from 1213 to 1917 UTC, and the airlock was depressurized from 1208
to 1921 UTC.
Chinese Space Station
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Shenzhou-15 was launched at 1508 UTC Nov 29 and docked with the Tianhe
forward docking port at 2142 UTC the same day. Crew of Shenzhou-15 are
Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, forming expedition 4 (Tiangong
Zairen 4, TGZR4) and beginning planned permanent occupation of the
station. At the time of docking the TGZR3 crew were still aboard,
temporarily increasing the station complement to 6 people.
Shenzhou-14 undocked from Tianhe nadir at 0301 UTC Dec 4 with the TGZR3
crew of Chen Dong, Liu Uang and Cai Xuzhe. The spaceship jettisoned its
orbital module at about 1120 UTC, made a deorbit burn at 1122 UTC,
jettisoned the propulsion module at about 1145 UTC, and landed at 100 03
08E 41 39 12N in the Dongfeng Landing Area at 1209 UTC after a 182 day 9
hr 24min flight.
X-37B
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X-37B mission OTV-6 was concluded on Nov 12. At about 0930 UTC the OTV
ejected an annular service module (the first time this had been
carried); this was cataloged as 54246 in a 234 x 239 km x 45.0 deg
orbit. Then, the OTV performed a deorbit burn over the South Pacific and
glided to a runway landing at the Kennedy Space Center's SLF (Shuttle
Landing Facility), touching down at 1022 UTC. OTV-6 was launched on 2020
May 17.
Eutelsat 10B
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SpaceX launched Eutelsat's Eutelsat 10B C/Ku-band communications satellite
to supersync geotransfer orbit on Nov 23. The satellite is a Thales Alenia Spacebus-NEO
with an electric propulsion system.
PSLV-C54
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India's NSIL launched a PSLV-XL from Sriharikota on Nov 26 with the
Oceansat-3 research satellite. Oceansat-3 (also called EOS-06) carries
an ocean color monitor, a sea surface temperature monitor, a Ku-band
scatterometer, and an ARGOS meteorological data relay payload.
The PSLV-XL PS4 fourth stage placed Oceansat-3 in a 740 km SSO and then
made two additional burns to a 510 km orbit where a set of small
satellites were deployed: Four Astrocast (Switzerland) 3U IoT
satellites, the Anand imaging satellite for India's Pixxel, two 0.5U
Thybolt communications satellites for Indian startup Dhruva Space, and
the INS-2B India-Bhutan imaging satellite developed by ISRO in
collaboration with Bhutan.
Glonass-M
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Russia launched a Glonass-M navigation satellite, codenamed Kosmos-2564, to
a circular 12-hour orbit on Nov 28.
Kosmos-2565
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A Russian Defense Ministry satellite launched on Nov 30 from Plesetsk is probably
a Lotos-S electronic intelligence satellite. On Dec 2 at 0722 UTC it circularized its orbit at 900 km
as expected. However, on Dec 2 around 2300 UTC it unexpectedly released another object.
Since the launch announcement talked about 'satellites', plural, it is assumed this object
is a secondary payload of some kind.
Erratum:
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Spacewalk VKD-55 was on Nov 17, not Nov 18.
Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Nov 1 1341 LDPE 2 Falcon Heavy Kennedy LC39A Tech 144A 36000 x 36000 x 2?
USA 339 Unknown 144B 36000 x 36000 x 2?
Nov 2 0647 Kosmos-2563 Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat Plesetsk EarlyWarn 145A 1622 x 38538 x 63.8
Nov 3 0522 Hot Bird 13G Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 146A 410 x 57503 x 27.7
Nov 4 1727 MATS Electron Mahia 1B Sci 147A 581 x 597 x 97.7
Nov 5 1150 Zhongxing-19 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang LC2 Comms 148A 220 x 35787 x 28.4
Nov 7 1032 S.S. Sally Ride Antares 230+ Wallops LA0A Cargo 149A 227 x 332 x 51.7
Nov 10 0949 JPSS-2 (NOAA-21) Atlas V 401 Vandenberg SLC3E Weather 150A 801 x 819 x 98.7
LOFTID Tech 150 17 x 658 x 97.6
Nov 11 2252 Yunhai-3 Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Weather? 151A 840 x 856 x 98.8
Nov 12 0203 Tianzhou-5 Chang Zheng 7 Wenchang LC201 Cargo 152A 200 x 421 x 41.8
Nov 12 1606 Galaxy 31 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 153A 283 x 58433 x 24.2
Galaxy 32 Comms 153B 306 x 58459 x 22.3
Nov 13 2202 Zhixing-3A Tianzhou-4, LEO Tech? 50E 375 x 396 x 41.48
Nov 15 0138 Yaogan 34-03 Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Imaging? 154A 1092 x 1097 x 63.4
Nov 16 0620 Jilin-1 GF03D-08 Gushenxing-1 Jiuquan Imaging 155A
Jilin-1 GF03D-51 Imaging 155
Jilin-1 GF03D-52 Imaging 155
Jilin-1 GF03D-53 Imaging 155
Jilin-1 GF03D-54 Imaging 155
Nov 16 0647 Artemis I SLS Block 1 Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 156A 517 x 376794 x 30.5
Nov 16 1027? Lunar IceCube OSA/ICPS-1, deep orbit Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
OMOTENASHI Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
EQUULEUS Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
BioSentinel 1 Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
ArgoMoon Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
Nov 16 1157? NEA Scout OSA/ICPS-1, deep orbit Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
Nov 16 1220? Luna HMap OSA/ICPS-1, deep orbit Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
Nov 16 1250? LunIR OSA/ICPS-1, deep orbit Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
Nov 16 1350? Miles OSA/ICPS-1, deep orbit Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
Nov 16 1450? CuSP OSA/ICPS-1, deep orbit Science 156 532 x 377388 x 30.3
Nov 18 0114 Hwasong-17 RV Hwasong-17? Sunan ICBM test U03 -6260 x 6100 x 41.6
Nov 23 0257 EUTELSAT 10B Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 157A 261 x 59831 x 22.8
Nov 26 0626 Oceansat-3 PSLV-XL Satish Dhawan Rem.sens 158A 729 x 748 x 98.3
India Bhutan Sat Imaging 158 501 x 530 x 97.5
Anand Imaging 158
Astrocast-0301 Comms 158
Astrocast-0302 Comms 158
Astrocast-0303 Comms 158
Astrocast-0304 Comms 158
Thybolt 1 Comms 158
Thybolt 2 Comms 158
Nov 26 1920 Dragon CRS-26 Falcon 9 Kennedy LC39A Cargo 159A 208 x 240 x 51.7
Nov 27 1223 Yaogan 36 hao 03 zu 01 xing Chang Zheng 2D Xichang Sigint? 160A 487 x 502 x 35.0
Yaogan 36 hao 03 zu 02 xing Sigint? 160
Yaogan 36 hao 03 zu 03 xing Sigint? 160
Nov 28 1517 Kosmos-2564 Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat Plesetsk Nav 161A 19149 x 19508 x 64.8
Nov 29 1508 Shenzhou 15 Chang Zheng 2F Jiuquan Spaceship 162A 385 x 393 x 41.5
Nov 30 2110? Kosmos-2565 Soyuz-2-1B Plesetsk Sigint 163A 898 x 912 x 67.1
Kosmos-2566? Unk 163C 896 x 910 x 67.1
Dec 2 0750? SpaceTuna-1 ISS, LEO Sci
PearlAfricaSat-1 Tech
ZimSat-1 Tech
Taka Tech
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
Nov 2 AAD AD-1 AAD AD-1 Kalam I. Test 150? Bay of Bengal
Nov 2 2340 RV Hwasong-12? Sunan Test 1920 Sea of Japan
Nov 3 RV x 4? Bulava G. Suvorov, White Sea Test 1000? Kura
Nov 3 1235 RV Hwasong-6? Koksan Test 150 Sea of Japan
Nov 3 1239 RV Hwasong-6? Koksan Test 150 Sea of Japan
Nov 3 1242 RV Hwasong-6? Koksan Test 150 Sea of Japan
Nov 5 Dummy payload Qaem-100 Shahroud Test 200? Arabian Sea?
Nov 16 JFTM-07 Target Terr.Terr. Oriole Kauai Target 300? Pacific
Nov 16 SM KV SM-3-IIA DDG-179, Pacific Interceptor 300? Intercept target
Nov 18 0600 Prarambh Vikram-S Satish Dhawan Test 89 Bay of Bengal
Nov 19 JFTM-07 Target Unknown Kauai Target 150? Pacific
Nov 19 SM KV SM-3-IB DDG-180, Pacific Interceptor 150? Intercept target
Nov 20 1720 ACES II High Black Brant IX Andoya Auroral 406 Norwegian Sea
Nov 20 1721 ACES II Low Black Brant IX Andoya Auroral 188 Norwegian Sea
Nov 23 0342 Agni RV Agni 3 Kalam I. Test 300? Bay of Bengal
Nov 23 0723 MASER 15/S1X-3 VSB-30 Kiruna Microgravity 260 ESRANGE
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