RocketNews: 2 more successful launches, ISS spacewalk

Hey there,

since last post, there happened two launches, and Russia did a space walk outside ISS:

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CASC Long March 2D: Zhangheng-1

A total of 7 payloads were lifted to orbit by recent sixth Chinese launch of this year.
Main payload was the Zhangheng-1:

The Zhangheng-1 (ZH-1) – also known as China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) – was developed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and is based on the CAST2000 bus.

The 6 remaining satellites are: GomX-4A (Ulloriaq), GomX-4B, Fengmaniu-1, Shaonian Xing, NuSat-4 ‘Ada’ (Aleph-1 4) and NuSat-5 ‘Maryam’ (Aleph-1 5).
[https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/02/long-march-2d-zhangheng-1-earthquake-investigator/]

The purpose of ZH-1 is predicting earthquakes using precurses in ionosphere.
For a very detailed in-depth description of Zhangheng-1, see NASA SpaceFlight or SpaceFlight NOW, where you can read a lot about the secondary payloads, too!

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JAXA SS-520: TRICOM-1R

With the launch of the 3kg (7lb) CubeSat, the modified SS-520 became the smallest satellite launcher of the world. The student built TRICOM carries an earth-imaging camera.
This was the second launch attempt, after a failure in 2017.
More information as always here and here!

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ISS spacewalk

Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Misurkin conducted another russion spacewalk on ISS in order to install a new antenna electonics box.
Due to a hardware problem with the antenna deployment, the EVA took 8:13 h, setting a new record for russian ISS EVAs (formerly 8:07 h).
See https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/02/russian-spacewalk-install-new-antenna/
or https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/02/russian-eva-44/ .

Credit: Roscosmos

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Read you the next days,
(and remember: next launch will be Falcon Heavy!)
Stay assembled!

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upcoming launches

date	window (UTC)	vehicle	manufacturer	payload/ mission	location
February 6	18:30 - 21:30	Falcon Heavy	SpaceX	Tesla Roadster	LC 39A, KSC
February 11	08:58	Soyuz 2.1A	Progress Rocket Space Centre	Progress MS-08 69P	Baikonur Cosmodrome