Jonathan McDowell
planet4589.bsky.social
Jonathan McDowell
@planet4589.bsky.social
Astrophysicist
I won't be doing regular updates for the next two weeks while I'm on travel - I recommend nasaspaceflight.com and spacenews.com and novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/ for launch updates while I'm away
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November 30, 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
LAUNCH at 0744 UTC Dec 1 of Starlink Group 6-86 from Kennedy
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Great thread on the Shenzhou crisis by @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social
Nov 5, 2025: During routine pre-return checks, the Shenzhou-20 crew spots an abnormal mark on the return capsule portview window. Images from inside and via the space station’s robotic arm are sent to Earth for assessment. content-static.cctvnews.cctv.com/snow-book/in...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The SJ-28 (2025-277) catalog numbers are backfilled gaps in the catalog, 66549 and 66550 (instead of being put at the end as 66781/82) Doing this for new-launched sat is extremely rare, unclear so far if
deliberate new practice or error. I am in favor of filling the gaps.
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
LAUNCH at 1220 UTC Nov 30 of China's Shi Jian 28.
SJ-28 and the CZ-7A third stage have been tracked in a 204 x 35806 km x 14.4 deg geotransfer orbit.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Transporter-15 mission complete. Most payloads delivered to 512 x 514 km x 97.4 deg; FORMOSAT-8A placed in 563 x 563 km x 97.6 deg; R5-S7 and the F9 second stage placed in a -79 x 568 km x 97 deg orbit with reentry near 173 5N at about 2200 UTC per my calculations
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
LAUNCH at 1844 UTC Nov 28 of Falcon 9 from Vandenberg with the Transporter-15 rideshare mission
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
LAUNCH at 0927 UTC Nov 27 of the Soyuz MS-28 spaceship by Soyuz-2-1a from Baykonur carring astronauts Kud'-Sverchkov, Mikaev and Williams. Soyuz MS-28 docked with the ISS Rassvet module at 1234 UTC.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
LAUNCH at 1613 UTC Nov 26 of South Korea's Nuri flight 4 with the CAS 500-3 satellite and twelve cubesats
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The three Rodnik satellites launched from Russia today have been cataloged by Space Force in the expected 1500 km, 82.5 deg orbit.
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The secret Electron 76 payload, possibly BlackSky Global-33, has been cataloged by US Space Force in a 468 x 477 km x 42.0 deg orbit. The 42 deg inclination slot has previously been used by Electron from BlackSky, QPS and Strix launches.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
LAUNCH at 0411 UTC Nov 25 of the uncrewed Shenzhou 22 spaceship, heading to the Chinese Space Station to provide the crew there with a new return ferry vehicle.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
LAUNCH at 0753 UTC Nov 22 of Starlink Group 6-79 from Canaveral
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Belatedly - LAUNCH at 1243 UTC Nov 20 of a secret commercial satellite by Electron from Mahia, suspected to be a BlackSky Global imaging sat.
[my original post seems to have disappeared, sorry about that]
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
TJS 21 cataloged in 51 deg elliptical transfer orbit and
is likely heading to a Molniya orbit - it is apparently a successor to TJS 13.
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
LAUNCH at 1055 UTC Nov 21 of TJS21 by a Chang Zheng 3B from Xichang to geotransfer orbit.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
LAUNCH at 0339 UTC Nov 21 of Starlink Group 6-78 from Kennedy Space Center
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Meteor-Priroda No. 2-4 remote sensing satellite, launched by the USSR on 1981 Jul 10, reentered over Antarctica at 0918 UTC 2025 Nov 20 after 44 years in orbit
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The three SJ-30 satellites launched on Nov 19 have been cataloged in a 511 x 528 km x 51.8 deg orbit.
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
On Nov 18 at 1005 UTC NASA launched a Terrier /Improved Malemute rocket on suborbital flight NASA 46.040WO from Andoya to 268 km apogee with the GHOST student atmospheric research payload.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Jonathan's Space Report No. 851 published at planet4589.org/jsr.html
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
LAUNCH at 0012 UTC Nov 19 of Starlink Group 6-94 from Canaveral [corrected time from earlier post]
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
LAUNCH at 0401 UTC Nov 19 of a CZ-2C from Jiuquan with the 实践三十号A、B、C星 (Shi Jian 30A, 30B and 30C) satellites
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The discarded Shenzhou 21 orbital module has been cataloged as object 66515 in a 382 x 388 km orbit
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Sentinel-6B cataloged in a 1308 x 1327 km x 66.1 deg orbit, confirming successful launch
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM