Sunday, 27 June 2021

Navigational Warnings have appeared for the launch of the first Dutch military satellite, Brik-II [UPDATED]

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  artist impression of Brik-II in space (The Netherlands Ministry of Defense) It was originally scheduled for launch in 2019, and postponed ...
Thursday, 17 June 2021

An intriguing apparent Missile Defense (?) test from Kodiak and Kwajalein [UPDATED: hypersonic, not Missile Defense]

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  click map to enlarge Update 22 Oct 2021: this turns out to have been Navigational Warnings for a test with a Hypersonic glider weapon, no...
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Monday, 14 June 2021

USA 224 has manoeuvered

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During the night of June 12-13, I was doing a periodic checkup on the KH-11 Advanced Enhanced CRYSTAL satellites  USA 224 (2011-002A) and...

Observing TacRL-2/Odyssey and it's Pegasus upper stage

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  I observed the Space Force's new Odyssey/TacRL-2 satellite last light, some 15.5 hours after it's airborne launch on a Pegasus-XL...
Saturday, 12 June 2021

NROL-111 and TacRL-2: two upcoming classified launches [UPDATED]

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click map to enlarge   Two classified launches are slated for the second week of June. One is the launch of TacRL-2 , on 13 June at 8:11 UT ...
Sunday, 23 May 2021

From what altitude does space debris drop vertically?

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While gearing up for the CZ-5B reentry in the first week of May , an interesting exchange developed on Twitter between @SpaceTrackOrg, @Du...
Thursday, 20 May 2021

The front group of Starlink V1.0 - L26

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On May 15, yet another batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites was launched, and they are currently making evening and early night passes over ...
Wednesday, 19 May 2021

SBIRS GEO 5 Centaur fuel blowout imaged from Australia

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click to enlarge On 18 May 2021 at 17:37 UT, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched SBIRS GEO 5 for the US Space Force fr...
Thursday, 6 May 2021

Reentry predictions for the Chinese CZ-5B rocket stage 2021-035B [UPDATED]

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UPDATE: CSpOC/18th Space Control Squadron report that the CZ-5B rocket booster 2021-035B met a fiery end at 2:14 UT last night (May 9) over ...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2021

USA 314 (NROL-82) imaged

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  click to enlarge Last Monday 26 April at 20:47:00 UT, ULA launched a classified payload for the NRO under the launch designation NROL-82 ....
Sunday, 25 April 2021

An upcoming French ICBM/SLBM test [UPDATED TWICE]

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click map to enlarge UPDATE (see end of post for more info): the test happened and it was an M51 SLBM Navigational Warnings HYDROLANT 1140/2...
Thursday, 22 April 2021

NROL-82: an upcoming new KH-11 EVOLVED ENHANCED CRYSTAL launch [UPDATED]

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image: ULA (updated 27 Apr 2021 with first observational orbit, see end of post) If the weather and the launch Gods cooperate, ULA will lau...
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