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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 842 draft                                                     2025 Jan 23  Somerville, MA
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Annual Report
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The 2024 annual report is available at https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space24.pdf
Latest corrected version is v1.3, if you downloaded an earlier version please replace it.

JSR Fundraiser
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A major change - I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. 
And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding or
subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent,  but now I
need to raise additional funds. This is the first and I hope last time I will
ask you for money. And no pressure - we'll still be friends if you don't donate.

For 35 years I've been sharing information about space exploration with
the world completely for free. Jonathan's Space Report is known for its
reliability and objectivity. My websites on the General Catalog of Space
Objects, the Starlink launch statistics, and other aspects of
spaceflight are relied on by journalists, public officials and
enthusiasts like you across the world, and all the data on the sites is
provided under a free CC-BY licence. I've been able to do this because I
have a day job and I do the Space Report in my spare time. But I am
planning to formally retire at the end of this year, move the extensive physical
library of space documents on which I rely to a new longer-term home in
a yet to be determined location in the UK, and do Space Report related
work full-time (and likely, as before, unpaid).

Buying the new home for the 100 square m (1000 sq ft) Jonathan's Space
Research Library is, it turns out, currently a little bit beyond my
financial means. Now that NASA, Harvard astronomy and MIT Aero Astro
have disposed of their libraries, my collection is arguably the most
extensive (at least top 5 worldwide) technical astronautics history
collection remaining and I think it should be preserved. I am asking for
donations rather than trying to monetize the Report because I want to
retain its editorial independence. So if you have relied on my free
information and are willing to donate a little, I would be very
grateful. Every extra dollar will help ensure the future of more and
more of the library and preserve a treasure trove of documents on the
history of spaceflight. Donors will be welcome to (on an occasional
basis!) visit, browse, and do research in the library once the
relocation is complete. 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition

International Space Station
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Expedition 72 continues with Suni Williams (ISS commander), Barry Wilmore, Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, 
Don Pettit, Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov.

Proba-3
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The Proba-3 occulter spacecraft separated from Proba-3 coronagraph at 2300 UTC on Jan 14.

CALT launches
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CALT launched a CZ-3B on Jan 23 with the military TJS 14 sat, mission unknown.

SAST launches
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SAST launched a CZ-6A on Jan 23 with 18 more Qianfan internet satellites.


Starlink
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Starlink Group 11-6 (23 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Jan 24 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-7 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Jan 27 to a 43 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 11-4 (22 sats) was launched from Vandenberg on Feb 3 to a 53 deg orbit.
Starlink Group 12-3 (21 sats) was launched from Canaveral on Feb 4 to a 43 deg orbit.


Other Falcon 9 missions
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On Jan 30 SpaceX launched the Spainsat NG-1 military comms satellite for Spain's Hisdesat to supersynch transfer orbit.

On Feb 4 SpaceX launched two Maxar Legion imaging satellites to LEO.

ISRO
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ISRO launched GSLV Mk II flight F15 on Jan 29, placing the NVS-02 navigation satellite in geotransfer orbit.

H3
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Japan's JAXA launched the QZS 6 (Michibiki 6) navigation sat on an H3
to geotransfer orbit on Feb 2


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

Jan 15 0611   Blue Ghost 1                         Falcon 9               Kennedy LC39A    Lunar    10   189 x 322453 x 35.0
              Resilience                                                                   Lunar    10   176 x 362529 x 35.2
Jan 16 0703   DS-1/Blue Ring Pathfinder            New Glenn              Canaveral LC36   Tech     11A  2409 x 19224 x 30.0
Jan 16 2237   Ship 33                              Starship               Starbase         Tech     F01 -3170 x 146 x 26
              Starlink Simulators 1-10
Jan 17 0407   PAK EO-1                             Chang Zheng 2D         Jiuquan          Imaging  12  516 x 528x 97.5
              Tianlu-1                                                                     Rem.Sens.12
              Lantan-1                                                                     Rem.Sens.12
Jan 20 1011   Yunyao-1 37                          Gushenxing-1           Jiuquan          Met      13  528 x 547 x 97.6
              Yunyao-1 38                                                                  Met      13 
              Yunyao-1 39                                                                  Met      13 
              Yunyao-1 40                                                                  Met      13 
              Jitianxing A-05 xing                                                         Imaging  13 
Jan 21 0524   Starlink Group 13-1                  Falcon 9               Kennedy LC39A    Comms    14  305 x 312 x 43.0
              USA 485                                                                      Unknown  14X
              USA 486                                                                      Unknown  14Y
Jan 21 1545   Starlink Group 11-8                  Falcon 9               Vandenberg SLC4E Comms    15  269 x 277 x 53.2
Jan 23 0515   Qianfan Jigui 06  (1 to 18)          Chang Zheng 6A         Taiyuan          Comms    16
Jan 23 1532   TJS 14                               Chang Zheng 3B         Xichang          Sigint?  17A  189 x 35807 x 28.5
Jan 24 1407   Starlink Group 11-6                  Falcon 9               Vandenberg SLC4E Comms    18  267 x 280 x 53.2
Jan 27 2205   Starlink Group 12-7                  Falcon 9               Canaveral LC40   Comms    19  285 x 292 x 43.0
Jan 29 0053   NVS-02                               GSLV Mk II             Satish Dhawan SLP Nav     20A 164 x 37593 x 20.8
Jan 30 0134   Spainsat NG-1                        Falcon 9               Kennedy LC39A    Comms    21A 472 x 68525 x 26.8
Feb  1 2302   Starlink Group 11-4                  Falcon 9               Vandenberg SLC4E Comms    22A
Feb  2 0830   Michibiki 6                          H3                     Tanegashima      Nav      23A
Feb  4 1015   Starlink Group 12-3                  Falcon 9               Canaveral LC40   Comms    24A
Feb  4 2313   Maxar Legion WV5                     Falcon 9               Kennedy LC39A    Imaging
              Maxar Legion WV6

Table of Recent Suborbital Launches
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Date UT       Payload           Rocket              Site                 Mission       Apogee    Target 

Jan 14 0015   HTB-2             T-T-Oriole          Wallops I            Target          200?    Atlantic
Feb  4 1600   NS-29             New Shepard         West Texas           Lunar grav sim  105     West Texas

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