TJS 26A, launched June 23 New data from Space-Track shows it located at 107°.5 east alongside TJS 5 www.orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/Launches/GeoSS/geo-loc.php#69674

SpaceX Transporter 17 Into orbit carrying 70 satellites, all safely released SpX counts 81 payloads - the other 11 are satellites yet to be released from their carriers such as ION SCV, or equipment/experiments packages hosted by other satellites orbitalfocus.uk/2026#156

Viasat 3 After eight weeks of near-continuous thruster operation, it has arrived on station in GEO orbitalfocus.uk/2026#096

Chinese spaceplane The satellite that was released Jun 21 (2026-024H has been rather busy with its orbit adjustment thruster and hanging around in the general vicinity of its host orbitalfocus.uk/2026#024

It's happening more and more: Space-Track issues orbit info for an object that subsequently doesn't get catalogued

Continues to raise orbit and reached its intended inclination about one week ago, nearing GEO Drift Orbit orbitalfocus.uk/2026#096

Space-Track has catalogued the Jun 26 Electron launch as 2026-146, leaving no space for the SpaceX Starfall Demo mission, even though it achieved orbit This may change Summary of SpaceX Starfall Demo orbitalfocus.uk/2026#U01

SMILE - joint ESA and Chinese mission Reached operational orbit Jun 20 for science observations to begin orbitalfocus.uk/2026#109

Chinese spaceplane New object probably separated from the spaceplane Jun 21 ~14:40 UTC, at about the same time the spaceplane raised its orbit by ~100 metres Space-Track published first orbit data around seven hours before the LeoLabs observation orbitalfocus.uk/2026#024

Victus Haze Some background info on it's companion - Jackal 0004 www.trueanomaly.space/newsroom/tru...

Victus Haze Puma Orbit data is still flowing from Space-Track, latest shows perigee raised to create circular orbit at ~465 km orbitalfocus.uk/2026#142 It has matched inclination, is 40 km below and is near co-planar with it's reported target - Jackal 004 (69012/2026-100AJ)

Victus Haze Puma, launch Jun 19 Rocket Lab has owned up - time was 10:19 UTC Space-Track has 'forgotten' it Over 36 hrs since any orbit data was published and don't be surprised if we see nothing more during its "rendezvous and proximity operations" orbitalfocus.uk/2026#142

Victus Haze Puma, launched Jun 19 Orbit available for 2026-142B, Electron second stage orbitalfocus.uk/2026#142 Third stage not catalogued yet which may indicate that the satellite is built around it Will we see any more orbit data for the sat or will Space-Track now go 'dark'?

Electron launch from New Zealand, Jun 19 orbital focus.uk/2026#142 Mission reported to include rendezvous and proximity operations Its orbit is coplanar with many of the sats from SpaceX launch 2026-100 so it's possible the target is among the 2026-100 payloads

Electron Launch from New Zealand, June 19 Sudden appearance of data for this launch with nothing from either Rocket Lab or US govt, so all details are subject to change if it turns out to be something different orbitalfocus.uk/2026#142 Thanks to all those who gave me a heads up

Kuaizhou 11 launch, Jiuquan, Jun 17 Space-Track now lists nine objects including with the late 'discovery' of an eighth satellite You'll see that the catalogue numbers aren't consecutive and the rocket stage is not at the end of the sequence orbitalfocus.uk/2026#138

Kuaizhou 11 launch, Jiuquan, Jun 17 Finally, nearly 25 hrs after lift-off, we had a launch announcement Followed a day of rumours including launch failure, satellite failure and payload failing to separate orbitalfocus.uk/2026#138

Three launches today (probably) and some more weird and wonderful shenanigans with orbit info from Space-Track for one of them orbitalfocus.uk/2026#138

Electron launch from Wallops, Jun 11 This was the 'missing' launch that bumped Zhuque 2 up to 2026-132 It appears to have delivered a payload back into the atmosphere for a hypersonic flight test orbitalfocus.uk/2026#130

H-3 launch from Tanegashima Jun 12 My take on allocation of IDs to sats based on orbit data issued so far and JAXA info Space-Track has the launch number as 2026-132 rather than 131 but I'm sure someone will tell me what I might have missed orbitalfocus.uk/2026#131

Zhuque 2E launch, Jun 9 from Jiuquan Space-Track reports the upper stage disintegrated about nine minutes after releasing its payloads Event probably coincided with planned re-entry burn No indication whether either satellite was damaged More detail orbitalfocus.uk/2026#128

Today's (Jun 11) CZ 5 launch from Wenchang carrying TJS 25 orbitalfocus.uk/2026#129

China Spaceplane orbitalfocus.uk/2026#024 Orbit raised by 150 metres on Jun 6

Falcon 9 launch, Jun 7 Two NRO Starshield sats and 21 Starlinks orbitalfocus.uk/2026#126

Rassvet launch - Mar 3 Fourteen sats still raising orbit: Six currently between 420 & 470 km km Eight between 320 & 330 km One sat distinctly 'dead' & will re-enter today Another sat may be dead too - no thruster activity since May 6 orbitalfocus.uk/2026#061

Cosmos 2615-2618, launch Apr 23 Are "ultra LEO" sats - frequent or near-continuous thrust maintains orbit height very precisely near 300 km or below www.orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/SovR... Other examples www.orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/SovR... (similar mission) and www.orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/SovR...

TJS 24, launched May 26 Has arrived on station in GEO at 90° east orbitalfocus.uk/2026#116

Busy week - eight launches: orbitalfocus.uk/2026#113

Transporter 16 launch, Mar 30 The latest addition to the growing list of objects is Camẽos, released from ION SCV 19 during May Around 20 payloads still have no catalogue number or designation One, 'HelloWorld 1' is a bit of a mystery orbitalfocus.uk/2026#067

Shenzhou 23 launch, May 24 Initial orbit available, courtesy of China rather than Space-Track because ST didn't catch it before docking: orbitalfocus.uk/2026#113

Rassvet launch - Mar 3 Has split into two groups, heading for multiple orbit planes Six sats raising orbit, now at 360-400 km Nine 'parked' below 320 km One 'dead' - could it be carrying the OZBP payload that ceased transmitting after 3 days? orbitalfocus.uk/2026#061

Shenzhou 23, launched earlier today Docked with CSS less than 3.5 hrs after lift-off orbitalfocus.uk/2026#113

From Bart Hendrickx integrityisr.com/is-russia-ma... If Russia has tagged ICEYE as part of a Ukraine weapon system, it might see it as a legitimate target ICEYE is a Finnish company Where might it lead if NATO feels compelled to respond? The only member with capacity to do so is the US

Russia launch, 2026-083, April 16 083B stands out because its orbit plane is nearly 10° of RA away from the others, as evidenced by the LTDN - however, none of the orbits are truly sun-synchronous orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083

Russia launch, 2023-083, Apr 16 All six sats have made small manoeuvres with the biggest one so far being by 083K on May 21, adding 6km to the height Intriguingly, manoeuvres are mainly minor changes in inclination with four of them converging on ~97°.8 orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083

SpaceX launch of NRO L-172 mission, May 12 The launch carried 22 Starshield satellites, USA 586 - USA 607 Orbit info orbitalfocus.uk/2026#103

Zhuque 2 test launch, May 14 69096/2026-105B is not a 'phantom' Early today Space-Track issued new data, epoch May 16 Within two days the orbit lost 170 km height, indicating it is almost certainly debris It has probably already re-entered orbitalfocus.uk/2026#105

Zhuque 2 test launch, May 14 69096/2026-105B could be a Space-Track 'phantom' A single set of orbit data was issued early on May 15 for epoch May 14, 10:28 UTC 69095/105A first set was issued at the same time - epoch 23:14 UTC, three sets issued so far orbitalfocus.uk/2026#105

China's spaceplane mission 4, launched Feb 7 Used at least five very small thruster firings between Apr 14 & Apr 18 to lower its orbit by 0.5 km Another firing May 16 pushed it back up to where it came from orbitalfocus.uk/2026#024

Zhuque 2 test launch, May 14 I have added an estimate for its initial orbit Space-Track didn't start issuing data until after the upper stage retro-fire orbitalfocus.uk/2026#105

SpaceX launch of NRO L-172 mission, May 12 Indications are that it carried around 24 satellites orbitalfocus.uk/2026#103

Rassvet launch - Mar 3 Fifteen satellites of the 16 sats are now actively engaged in orbit raising The laggard is the object tagged as 68363/2026-061D and it's down to 288 km The others currently range between 294 & 332 km Launch summary orbitalfocus.uk/2026#061

Russia launch, Plesetsk Apr 16 orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083 Five of the objects in near-550 km orbits made their first thruster firings April 28-29. Orbits changed by <2 km - two moved up and three moved down

Several launches in the past week from multiple nations orbitalfocus.uk/2026#087

Rassvet launch - Mar 3 Six satellites of the 16 are now actively engaged in orbit raising but if they're heading 800 km, they don't exactly seem to be in a rush Launch summary orbitalfocus.uk/2026#061

Russia launch, Plesetsk Apr 16 orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083 Objects 083F-083J appeared in Space-track data Apr 18 with orbit intersecting that of 083D (assumed to be Volga) at ~5° angle Did Volga make the manoeuvre or was it something else? Is Volga now at the bottom of the Pacific?

Russia launch from Plesetsk April 16 So far orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083 Best guess at timeline: L+0:09 Stage 3 reaches orbit L+0:10 Volga separates L+0:58 Volga circularises orbit L+1:00 Volga releases 83A followed by B & E L+1:xx Volga manoeuvre to 96°.9 to releases other sats

It was indeed the expected CZ 4C launch vehicle but not a radar sat It was actually the Daqi 2 climate monitoring sat but was given the same close attention as Gaofen 12 and Ludi Tance on its first circuit Details, but orbit not yet available orbitalfocus.uk/2026#084

Russia launch from Plesetsk yesterday orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083 TASS acknowledged launch several hours after the event but without giving the time Space-Track has identified at least four objects but, as yet, no indication of whether satellite, rocket or debris

Launch from Plesetsk yesterday - not announced by official Russian sources orbitalfocus.uk/2026#083 All data, including launch time, are provisional The orbit listed may be the LV third stage with the satellite having ascended to a significantly higher orbit - maybe 750 km?