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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 856 draft 2026 May 13 Somerville, MA, USA
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ISS
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Expedition 74 continues.
On May 15 SpaceX launched Dragon CRS-34, with capsule C209. The trunk carries CLARREO Pathfinder and STP-H11.
Chinese commercial launches
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On May 14 Landspace launched Zhuque-2E flight Y5, introducing a new stretched version of this methalox launch
vehicle. It placed a 2800 kg dummy payload in orbit.
On May 15 CAS Space launched a Lijian 1, flight Y13, and placed five payloads in orbit.
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
May 1 1806 Starlink Group 10-38 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Comms 99 259 x 259 x 53.2
May 3 0700 CAS-500 Rideshare Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Tech 100 501 x 509 x 97.4
May 6 0359 Starlink Group 17-29 Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Comms 101 264 x 266 x 97.3
May 11 0013 Tianzhou 10 Chang Zheng 7 Wenchang Cargo 102A 374 x 385 x 41.5
May 12 0213 NROL-172 (USA 586 to ?) Falcon 9 Vandenberg SLC4E Unknown 103
May 12 1158 Qianfan Digui 19 Chang Zheng 6A Taiyuan Comms 104
May 14 0300 Dingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe Zhuque-2E Jiuquan Test 105A
May 15 0433 Taijing 3-05A Lijian-1 Jiuquan Imaging 106
Taijing 3-06B Imaging 106
Youxi Imaging 106
Dianjian-1 Imaging 106
Jilin-1 GF03D55 Imaging 106
May 15 2205 Dragon CRS-34 Falcon 9 Canaveral LC40 Cargo 107A
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Daily exoatmospheric missile launches in the Middle East conflict continued through Apr 7, but are not listed here.
Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
May 12 RV Sarmat Yasniy Test 1000? Kura
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