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Published: April 18, 2025 08:30
Recent NRO Launches Payload descriptions and some orbit details available L-192 orbitalfocus.uk/2025#074 L-174 orbitalfocus.uk/2025#077
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https://bsky.app/profile/orbitalfocus.bsky.social/post/3lmyof7w4442b
Published: April 17, 2025 08:21
Mission Update Chinese Space Station The small sat released on Apr 7 (63523, 2021-035E) made a thruster firing Apr 16 with no significant effect on orbit height Behaviour is similar to 62300/035D that was in orbit between 2024 Dec 7 and 2025 Apr 7 …
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Published: April 13, 2025 09:19
Mission Update Chinese Space Station Released a small object on Apr 7 (63523, 2021-035E) orbitalfocus.uk/2021#035 May be similar to 62300/035D released 2024 Dec 7 - it re-entered the same day the new item appeared (Space-Track re-entry date of April 10…
https://bsky.app/profile/orbitalfocus.bsky.social/post/3lm2wnqlzbf27
Published: April 5, 2025 12:29
Mission Update MEV 1 (44625, 2019-067B) Northrop Grumman completed contract to provide 5 yrs support to Intelsat 901 Moved to graveyard orbit Mar 31 to release Intelsat Will return to GEO to take over station keeping and pointing of another Intelsat …
https://bsky.app/profile/orbitalfocus.bsky.social/post/3llucwf4qiz2h
Published: April 2, 2025 21:20
Mission Update Cosmos 2581 etc 2025-026C, one of the two parts of Cosmos 2583, made a very small thruster firing earlier today Effect on orbit height was insignificant 026A & 026B continue to orbit together within a couple of hundred metres of each…
https://bsky.app/profile/orbitalfocus.bsky.social/post/3llqvmdegjc2s
Published: April 1, 2025 12:44
Launch Advisory 4x second generation internet connectivity test satellites Apr 1, 04:00 UTC CZ 2D Jiuquan SC 450 km orbit, lower than the 1000 km of earlier (presumably gen 1) missions orbitalfocus.uk/2025#067
https://bsky.app/profile/orbitalfocus.bsky.social/post/3llqivih4gk2a
Published: April 1, 2025 08:56
Mission Update Cosmos 2581 etc 026A & B still orbiting in tandem, with B a few metres ahead and doing the station keeping 026C & D are 3000+ km ahead with no orbit changes since separating from each other, not obvious if both are operational satellites…
https://bsky.app/profile/orbitalfocus.bsky.social/post/3llgigoough2z
Published: March 28, 2025 09:21
Mission Update Shijian 25 China's satellite servicing vehicle has been sitting at 120° east since launch in January orbitalfocus.uk/2025#002 Potential client, Shijian 21, continues slow eastward drift, currently near 143° east orbitalfocus.uk/2021#094 …
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Published: March 28, 2025 08:46
Mission Update USA 498 Payload on the Falcon 9 launch on Mar 24 The amateur observing community is now tracking it in an orbit close to my initial estimate, see the comparison: orbitalfocus.uk/2025#060
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Published: March 25, 2025 19:11
Mission Update USA 498 NRO L-69 mission Space-Track has catalogued a single satellite Estimated orbit added to the Orbital Focus table based on timing of visual observations of the Falcon 9 from Europe and the location of the Falcon 9 re-entry zone …