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23 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Electron 19's Stage 2 has been cataloged as 47965, 2021-023A, in a 297 x 557 km x 45.0 deg orbit.
The payloads on Electron 19 are:
A Black Sky Global satellite (possibly Global-5?), about 55 kg, separated at 0019 UTC Mar 23;
RAAF's M2 A and B, two 6U sats deployed at 2322 UTC Mar 22; Fleet's Centauri 3, a 6U built by Tyvak, deployed 2323 UTC; (1/2)...
Care Weather's Veery Hatchling, a 1U deployed at 2324 UTC; one of the US Army SMDC's Gunsmoke-J series (J2?) deployed at 2324 UTC; and Myriota's Myriota 7, deployed at 2325 UTC.
In addition, RocketLab has the Photon Pathstone attached payload on the Curie stage, testing a deep space comms system and other tech.
RocketLab's commentary noted the Gunsmoke sat used a @RocketLab Maxwell cubesat deployer. I'm not sure if that means the other deployers were not Maxwells? Clarification welcome
Confirmed that Veery Hatchling used a 1U Maxwell. But Centauri and Myriota's launch was procured by Tyvak, so maybe they used Tyvak dispensers. Unclear what RAAF M2 used.

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The Fregat stage should now have made its circularization burn and the first 4 satellite separations should happen soon
The first 4 sats released were OneWeb 0108, 0174, 0177, 0178. The second four satellites have now been released: 0155, 0163, 0166, 0171.
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LAUNCH of Starsem flight ST30, Soyuz-2-1b (Vostochniy) No V15000-005 with 36 OneWebs
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Updated sumary: the J-SSOD-M2 deployer flew to ISS on NG-15, taken to the Kibo module and moved outside with the JEM-RMS robot arm. At 0830 UTC Mar 22 it ejected its payload, the လောကနတ်-၁ (Lawkanat-1) microsat which is a joint project of Hokkaido U and MAEU (Meiktila, Myanmar)
A Reuters story by @kellyJapan noted the controversy over the sat. The report today by @heinkoLwin confirms the deployment and says that Lawkanat-2 is scheduled for Sep 2023.
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(3) Rural areas; Urban change;
(4) Oceanography;
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The Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission is pretty complicated. The spacecraft has a lot of sub-pieces and the mission has a lot of phases. I am going to take a deep breath and summarize what I believe the scenario to be.
First, the Lego pieces (abbreviations are mine):
SM: Service module
DS: Descent stage (lander)
AS: Ascent stage
AD: Adapter
DA: Docking adapter
RV: Reentry vehicle
At launch, the stack has the AS on top of the DS on top of the AD on top of the SM, wit the DA on top of the RV sitting on the SM inside the AD.
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23 Nov 20
Chang'e-5 will launch aboard the Chang Zheng (Long March) 5 serial number Y5 from pad 101 at the Wenchang space centre on Hainan island. The CZ-5 rocket has 4 liquid side boosters, core stage, and upper stage. The upper stage will go to parking orbit and then translunar insertion
The CE-5 will separate from the CZ-5 second stage on its translunar trajectory, and coast on to lunar orbit insertion in a few days.
After some time in lunar orbit, the lander will separate from the service module and touch down. The lander ascent stage will then take off with its sample and dock with the service module in lunar orbit, transferring its samples.
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The predicted close approach on Oct 16 involves a Soviet Parus navigation satellite and a Chinese rocket stage. Here is the Parus. It's a big satellite, about 800 kg, 2 metres in dia and it has a 17 metre long gravity gradient boom.
The Parus satellite was designed by ISS Reshetnev in Zheleznogorzk and built by PO Polyot in Omsk. Images from kik-sssr.ru
The CZ-4C third stage is about 7.5m long and 2.9m diameter. I don't have a good mass for it but it is probably of order a tonne. Here is art of the stage from the specific launch in question with the payload still attached at right
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