Author Topic: Yaogan Weixing-27 (YG-27) - CZ-4C - Taiyuan - August 27, 2015 (02:31 UTC)  (Read 21848 times)

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Rumors about a launch in the coming days pointed out that this will take place from Jiuquan. We do not know the nature of the cargo o board, but possibly it is the SW-6 satellite (QS-3).
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I'm just about to open this thread, but you were quicker!

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Still no NOTAM, will this launch be real??

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  Is it my imagination or does China seems to like launching when other nations do, India, Russia and the US all launching this week. 

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  Is it my imagination or does China seems to like launching when other nations do, India, Russia and the US all launching this week. 

Maybe the other nations launch when China does ;)

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Still no NOTAM, will this launch be real??

We just have to wait, beidou. Looks like the rumors are strong. In the next 24 hours we will know.

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  Is it my imagination or does China seems to like launching when other nations do, India, Russia and the US all launching this week.

Might be your imagination ... might be ours (and theirs) as well.  ;)

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QS-3?   I presume that QS = Qianshao.

Qianshao-1 is supposed to have been Shiyan Weixing 2, the prototype of the satellites in the Shijian 11 series.   Qianshao-2 was Shiyan Weixing 5, and has been suggested as being the prototype of a Shijian 11 follow-on series.

So maybe the new launch will be the first Qianshao-2/Shijian mission?

But if it is Qianshao-3 then I wonder what has happened to a possible Qianshao-2 series?

I enjoy the Chinese keeping us guessing!
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still no NOTAMS
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Ugggghhh.....The nature of the rumors were right, but the predicted satellite and rocket were wrong!  :-X

CCTV just reported that YG-27 was just successfully launched from Taiyuan at 02:31 UTC on a CZ-4C rocket.
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Photos from Xinhua:

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No orbital parameters yet, but this should be an electrooptical 3rd generation bird (YG-8, 15, 19, 22)?

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No orbital parameters yet, but this should be an electrooptical 3rd generation bird (YG-8, 15, 19, 22)?

I think so given its launch time is again at 31 minutes past the hour, the same with the 4 birds you have mentioned.  ;)
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No orbital parameters yet, but this should be an electrooptical 3rd generation bird (YG-8, 15, 19, 22)?

Electro-optical or radar?   I have these satellites as being the Jianbing-9 radar satellites.   Maybe wrong of course!
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No orbital parameters yet, but this should be an electrooptical 3rd generation bird (YG-8, 15, 19, 22)?

Electro-optical or radar?   I have these satellites as being the Jianbing-9 radar satellites.   Maybe wrong of course!

I believe all Chinese amateur sources puts it as optical satellites specialized in marine operations.

And there's an object from this launch at NORAD (CZ-4C 3rd stage) that confirms the identity above: 40878/2015-040A is in a 1065 x 1205 km x  100.46 deg. orbit.
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No orbital parameters yet, but this should be an electrooptical 3rd generation bird (YG-8, 15, 19, 22)?

Electro-optical or radar?   I have these satellites as being the Jianbing-9 radar satellites.   Maybe wrong of course!

Electro-optical

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Looks like the exact launch time was 0231:34.989UTC.

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