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US Space Force has cataloged the Electron rocket stages from the Jun 11 HASTE launch as being in orbit, but with no associated orbital data.
Does this mean CURVEBALL reached orbit and then the payload was deorbited on first orbit? Are there NOTAMs?
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@RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck can you confirm/deny if the Jun 11 HASTE launch left stages in orbit, or is this a cataloging mistake?
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@dillonshrop6 any clues? Reentry NOTAMs could be mid-Atlantic for normal HASTE launch, or Indian Ocean for a marginal-orbit one...
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The six H3 payloads have been cataloged in a 556 x 572 km x 97.7 deg, 0945 LTDN sun-sync orbit, confirming successful launch.
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Main debris object from the ZQ-2E breakup cataloged as 69537 (2026-128C) in a 336 x 425 km x 54.5 deg orbit
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Space-Track reports that the upper stage of the Zhuque-2E disintegrated at 0847 UTC Jun 9, a time that likely corresponds to the disposal burn following payload deployment. The stage and debris have not yet been cataloged
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Jun 12
LAUNCH of Starlink Group 10-54 from Canaveral at 1237 UTC Jun 12
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Jun 12
Space-Track reports that the upper stage of the Zhuque-2E disintegrated at 0847 UTC Jun 9, a time that likely corresponds to the disposal burn following payload deployment. The stage and debris have not yet been cataloged
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Jun 12
LAUNCH at 0053 UTC Jun 12 from Tanegashima of Japan's H3 flight F6, the flight test of the H3-30 three-engine model
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It appears that H3 has reached orbit and the first two payloads have separated successfully.
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Jun 11
LAUNCH at 1506 UTC Jun 11 of Starlink Group 17-44 from Vandenberg
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Jun 11
Suborbital LAUNCH of Rocket Lab Electron HASTE with the CURVEBALL mission at about 0800 UTC Jun 11 from Wallops with reentry over the Atlantic
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LAUNCH at 0730 UTC Jun 11 of a Chang Zheng 5 from Wenchang, placing TJS 25 通信技术试验卫星二十五号 (Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing 25 hao) in geotransfer orbit
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Jonathan McDowell retweeted
#ISS orbit correction was performed today at 05:00 UTC in preparation for the departure of #SoyuzMS28 and arrival of #SoyuzMS29. #ProgressMS34 docked to #Zvezda module fired its engines for 495.7 sec with an impulse of 0.91 m/s, increasing the station’s orbit altitude for 1.6 km.
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Jonathan McDowell retweeted
Artemis III Crew
NASA Astronaut (Commander) Randy Bresnik
NASA Astronaut (Pilot) Luca Parmitano
NASA Astronaut (Mission Spec) Andre Douglas
NASA Astronaut (Mission Spec) Frank Rubio
Backup NASA Astronaut Crew Member: Bob Hines
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Jun 9
Interesed to see what @mehdirhasan does with this
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Jun 9
LAUNCH at 0823 UTC Jun 9 of a Landspace Zhuque-2E from Jiuquan with the 千帆DTC 01星 (Qianfan direct-to-cell 01) and 中国移动02星 (China Mobile 02) satellites
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Jun 9
China Mobile 01 was an alternate name for Xingshidai-19, launched in 2024.
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Jun 8
Got behind on arxiv and slowly catching up -glad to see this paper on looking for nearby isolated accreting black holes, revisiting a topic I looked at during my thesis - even more glad they cited my 1985 paper which I wasn't sure anyone ever read! arxiv.org/abs/2601.14499
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LAUNCH at 1014 UTC Jun 8 of Starlink Group 10-35 from Canaveral
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