Jonathan's Space Report
No. 773 Draft 2019 Dec 8 Somerville, MA
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International Space Station
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Expedition 61 continues.
Progress MS-13 docked with the Pirs module at 1038 UTC Dec 9.
Glonass
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The Glonass M-59 navigation satellite, Kosmos-2544, was launched from Plesetsk on Dec 11.
PSLV-C48
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India's PSLV-C48 flight launched RISAT-2BR1, a 628 kg X-band synthetic aperture radar satellite.
Also aboard were some secondary payloads:
- the 100-kg-class Izanagi (QPS-SAR-1), a 3.6m-dia-antenna radar satellite from QPS Labs of Fukuoka, Japan;
- the 22 kg 12U Cubesat 1HOPSAT from Hera Systems of San Jose;
- the 3U Duchifat 3 from Herzliya Science Center, Israel
- four SpireGlobal Lemur-2 satellites;
- a 3U satellite, Tyvak-0092 (possibly also called COMMTRAIL), built by Tyvak for an unnamed Italian company
for search-and-rescue applications;
- a 6U satellite, Tyvak-0129, or Pathfinder Demo Test 1, a mission built by Tyvak for NASA-Ames to test
a Busek electrospray thruster.
Erratum
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The recent Beidou double launch, Beidou 50/51, were satellites M21 and M22 in the Beidou-3
system, and not M19/20 as I wrote in JSR 772.
Table of Recent Orbital Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. Catalog Perigee Apogee Incl Notes
Dec 5 1729 Dragon CRS-19 Falcon 9 Canaveral SLC40 Cargo 83A S44821 203 x 378 x 51.7
Dec 6 0800? Kosmos-2543? Kosmos-2542, LEO Inspector 79D S44835 368 x 858 x 97.9
Dec 6 0818 ALE-2 ) Electron Mahia LC1 Tech 84A S44824 397 x 415 x 97.0
NOOR 1A ) Com 84 348 x 403 x 97.0
NOOR 1B ) Com 84 348 x 403 x 97.0
SMOG-P ) Sigint 84 348 x 403 x 97.0
TRSI-Sat ) Tech 84 348 x 403 x 97.0
FossaSat-1) Tech 84 348 x 403 x 97.0
ATL-1 ) Sigint/Tech 84 348 x 403 x 97.0
Dec 6 0934 Progress MS-13 Soyuz-2-1A Baykonur LC31 Cargo 85A S44833 186 x 219 x 51.6
Dec 7 0255 Jilin-1 Gaofen 02B Kuaizhou-1A Taiyuan Imaging 86B S44837 531 x 544 x 97.5
Dec 7 0852 HEDE-2A ) Kuaizhou-1A Taiyuan Comms 87 S44839 495 x 511 x 97.4
HEDE-2B ) Comms 87 495 x 511 x 97.4
Tianqi-4A ) Comms 87 495 x 511 x 97.4
Tianqi-4B ) Comms 87 495 x 511 x 97.4
Tianyi-16 ) Imaging 87 495 x 511 x 97.4
Tianyi-17 ) Imaging 87 495 x 511 x 97.4
Dec 11 0854 Kosmos-2544 Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat Plesetsk LC43/3 Nav 88A S44850 19125 x 19150 x 64.8
Dec 11 0955 RISAT-2BR1) PSLV-QL Satish Dhawan Radar 89A S44852 564 x 574 x 37.0
Izanagi ) Radar 89
1HOPSAT ) Imaging 89
Duchifat-3) Tech 89
Tyvak-0092) SaR 89
Tyval-0129) Tech 89
Lemur-2-Unnamed) AIS/Met 89
Lemur-2-Unnamed) AIS/Met 89
Lemur-2-Unnamed) AIS/Met 89
Lemur-2-Unnamed) AIS/Met 89
Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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On Dec 12 the US DoD's Strategic Capabilities Office and Northrop
Grumman launched what was reported to be a development test for a new
IRBM. The rocket flew from Vandenberg's Test Pad 1 west to the Pacific,
apparently to a range of about 1200 km (and not 3000 km which the US
defines as the lower end of IRBM range). Pictures suggest it was a
single-stage Castor 4B with an MBRV-class reentry vehicle, probably
surplus from the missile defense targets program. The Castor 4B solid
motor is thought to no longer be in production; I conclude this was
likely largely a propaganda exercise rather than actually representing a
new capability.
Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Target
Nov 26 0743 ICI 5 Terrer Imp.Malemute Svalbard Ionosphere 253 Arctic
Nov 28 Topol-E RV Topol' Kapustin Yar Reentry test 1000? Balkhash
Nov 28 0759 RV DPRK MLRS Ryonpo Test 97 Sea of Japan
Nov 28 0759 RV DPRK MLRS Ryonpo Test 97 Sea of Japan
Nov 30 1350 Agni 3 RV Agni 3 Kalam Island Test 500? Indian O.
Dec 10 0930 CHI Black Brant IX Svalbard Ionosphere 360 Arctic
Dec 11 1753 New Shepard NS12 New Shepard West Texas Test 105 West Texas
Dec 12 1630 IRBM Test Castor 4B? Vandenberg TP-01 Test 500? Pacific
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