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Good afternoon everyone! It’s TheRocketMan back again with another update about aerospace happenings from around the world. Last week, we saw a slow cadence of 2 successful Falcon 9 launches as well as a surprise Roscosmos launch. The launch of the Roscosmos mission reminds me of a very important point I must address. The situation in Ukraine has led to much information about the Russian space program to be no longer public so launches will often come as a surprise so inaccuracies in schedule may occur, I apologize. I also understand that many people might be upset with me including Russian space projects in this forum but I am making this with the goal of recognizing scientific advances, not political ones. Therefore, I will negate politics in my posts. Nonetheless, prayers to all those involved in the conflict as well as the creator of Damplips as I understand they are in Ukraine. Prayers!

That out of the way, let’s take a look at the space launch schedule for the week of Monday, February 12th, 2024 – Sunday, February 18th, 2024.

February 13th Falcon 9 • Nova C (IM-1) will launch from LC39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:57 PM CST. This launch and USSF-124 may launch too closely together to both land their booster on LZ-1. One mission will likely land on LZ-2, SpaceX’s second landing zone often used in Falcon Heavy launches. However, we do not currently know which mission will use LZ-2, so for now, both missions are set as using LZ-1. In future cases like this, we will use a new designation “Landing Zone 1 or 2”. This Nova C mission includes the first of at least 3 robotic lunar landing missions by Intuitive Machine as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. The lunar lander, named Odysseus, will fly 6 payloads for NASA and several others for commercial companies to near Malapert A crater near the Moon’s south pole.

February 14th Falcon 9 • Starlink Group 7-14 will launch from SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA on Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:55 PM CST. SpaceX will launch a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. This will be Falcon 9’s 300th mission. A recovery attempt will be made on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship.

February 14th Falcon 9 • USSF-124 will launch from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA on Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:30 PM CST. Nova C (IM-1) and this mission may launch too closely together to both land their booster on LZ-1. One mission will likely land on LZ-2, SpaceX’s second landing zone often used in Falcon Heavy launches. However, we do not currently know which mission will use LZ-2, so for now, both missions are set as using LZ-1. In future cases like this, we will use a new designation “Landing Zone 1 or 2”. USSF-124 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It consists of 2 satellites, one by L3Harris and the other by Northrop Grumman, to be launched as the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) mission for the US Missile Defense Agency. These satellites have improved sensitivity to detect and track hypersonic missiles with fainter signatures. Four SDA Tranche 0 Tracking Layer missile warning satellites by L3Harris will be launched on USSF-124. These were scheduled to launch on SDA Tranche 0B but were taken off the manifest due to production delays.

February 14th MHI • VEP 4, CE-SAT-1E, TIRSAT will launch from LA-Y2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan on Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:22 PM CST. New H3 test flight ordered after the failure of the first H3 launch in March 2023 with a dummy main payload.The VEP 4 (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4) is a mass simulator payload that will be carried on the 2nd test flight of the H3 rocket, instead of the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite as originally planned. It will be deployed after the 2nd de-orbit burn is completed to test the payload separation mechanism. 70-kilogram class optical Earth observation satellite from Canon Electronics Inc., similar to the previously launched CE-SAT-1. 3U CubeSat by Japan Space Systems and other institutes to test an infrared sensor for Earth surface observation purposes.

February 14th Soyuz 2.1a • Progress MS-26 will launch from Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:25 PM CST. Progress (in Russian: “Прогресс”) MS-26 is a Russian cargo vehicle which will resupply the International Space Station. This will be the 179th flight of a Progress.It was the first cargo to fly in space, and also the first to bring freight back to Earth, thanks to a Raduga capsule.It’s a cargo ship developed to supply the Salyut 6 space station, which was subsequently used successively to supply the crews staying on board the Salyut 7, Mir and from the International Space Station. It made its first flight in 1978 and was the first vessel of this type: it enabled the crews to stay in space by bringing consumables (food, water, fuel, oxygen) and spare parts.The Progress spacecraft is largely derived from the Soyuz spacecraft intended for the transport of crews in low orbit. It is launched by a Soyuz rocket lifting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It has a mass of around 7 tonnes for a length of 7.9 meters and its carrying capacity is around 2.5 tonnes. It can transport both pressurized freight and gases, propellants and liquids but is not designed to bring freight back to Earth (except with a Raduga capsule). Like the Soyuz spacecraft, it is equipped with a Kours automatic docking system. Several variants of the Progress spacecraft have been developed over the decades with increasing capabilities.

February 17th GSLV Mk II • INSAT-3DS will launch from Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India on Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:00 AM CST. INSAT-3DS is an Indian weather satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation and operated by the Indian National Satellite System. It provides meteorological services to India using a 6-channel imager and a 19-channel sounder, as well as search and rescue information and message relay for terrestrial data collection platforms. The satellite will be a follow-up to INSAT-3DR.

Net February 18th Electron (Curie) • On Closer Inspection will launch from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand on NET Feb 18, 2024. The ADRAS-J spacecraft was selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2), one of the world’s first technology demonstrations of removing large-scale debris from orbit. ADRAS-J will demonstrate a safe and secure approach — known as RPO — with a client space object and will obtain images of and other data about that object, delivering observational information to better understand the space debris environment. ​

Quite the launch cadence we have. Let’s take a look at accomplishments, updates and Starship happening from this past week.

Axiom-3, launched by SpaceX on January 18th, returned to earth this week with its 4 crew members on a lengthened trip to the ISS. Axiom Space is a privately owned company poised to create commercial space travel. Their plans include regular crewed missions to the ISS, eventual addition of custom commercial modules to the ISS and an eventual autonomous space station, all powered by SpaceX and the Falcons.

Starship has fully stacked in Boca Chica, Texas, in preparations for a wet dress rehearsal and potential orbital test launch this month. The stack of ship 10 and booster 28 is sitting on the orbital launch mount undergoing checks before sure testing and maybe even a lunch. Unsure for a date or FAA confirmation.

Blue Origin tested their BE-4 engine in Huntsville for the first time. The BE-4 currently powers the Vulcan rocket and will power Blue Origin’s planned New Glenn rocket in the future. New Glenn, like Starship, is planned to be a fully reusable heavy lift vehicle.

And that just about does it for the space updates for the coming week. We’re coming off an uneventful week but this week has a lot of promise for things to look forward to. I plan on having a Discord server soon but with school being school I have no definite amount of time to when it will be here. Regardless, thank you guys so much for taking a read. As always, credit goes to NASASpaceFlight, LabPadre, SpaceX, Next Spaceflight and all the various space flight communities from all over the internet. As always, God Bless and I’ll see everyone in the stars.

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