http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/02/c_132202656.htmChina's first solid-fuel rocket to debut before 2016: officialEnglish.news.cn 2013-03-02 11:03:34 BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- China's first solid-fuel rocket Long March-11 is expected to make its first launch before 2016, a senior official of the rocket's designing institute said on Saturday.Liang Xiaohong, deputy head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said the rocket will be easy to operate and cost-efficient to launch. It can remain in storage for long period and reliably launch on short notice."The development of the Long March-11 will greatly improve China's capabilities to rapidly enter the space and meet the emergency launching demand in case of disasters and emergencies," he told Xinhua.The Long March-11 rocket system consists of a solid-fuel rocket and a launching support system. It will apply China's largest solid-fuel rocket engine, he said.China has made more than 160 launching of liquid-fuel rockets successfully but is yet to make breakthrough on the development of the solid-fuel rockets.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/02/c_132202656.htmBEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- China's first solid-fuel rocket Long March-11 is expected to make its first launch before 2016, a senior official of the rocket's designing institute said on Saturday.
They are forgetting the KT-1 launch vehicle.
Bumping this thread as the Chinese apparently is going to sneak in this rocket's first flight late this month (info is from ham radio operators who have payloads on this flight)! The payload will apparently be 3 ham radio mini-satellites. I wonder which 3 will they be?
Can someone please help in translating this?Thank you!
Quote from: Satori on 09/20/2015 11:46 amCan someone please help in translating this?Thank you!Dear Editor: I am the leader of the R&D team of cube satellite in the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites. Not a very precise translation. But you got the point.
Using Google translation on a post on the 9ifly space forum, looks like the launch is schedule for 1455UTC.
Quote from: Satori on 09/23/2015 08:07 amUsing Google translation on a post on the 9ifly space forum, looks like the launch is schedule for 1455UTC.These are guesses which doesn't even have anything solid to base on.... No NOTAMs so far; hopefully they appear in the next 24 hours.
Are any other payloads known besides the three Tianwang cubesats?
From the same Weibo account, this is apparently taken on site, but.....the left end doesn't look like an SRB nozzle. A Topol-type launch canister perhaps?
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 09/24/2015 08:39 amFrom the same Weibo account, this is apparently taken on site, but.....the left end doesn't look like an SRB nozzle. A Topol-type launch canister perhaps? Yes looks indeed like a launch canister. The model shown of the CZ-11 looks certainly different.
I was worrying that with zero information around that this launch might have slipped....but nope!A2739/15 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:N374344E0990357-N384150E0991957-N383448E1000018-N373647E0994348 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 25 SEP 01:33 2015 UNTIL 25 SEP 01:53 2015. CREATED: 24 SEP 06:44 2015So launch would be at around 01:45 UTC.This prediction has been confirmed by one Weibo account (whose owner has provided good info on the final ramp up of LM-6's first flight last week), though he said there will be 4, not 3 satellites on board.