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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #300 on: 02/01/2019 05:04 am »
China Launched World's First Rocket-deployed Weather Instruments from Unmanned Semi-submersible vehicle
http://english.iap.cas.cn/RE/201901/t20190131_205264.html
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For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have launched a rocketsonde — a rocket designed to perform weather observations in areas beyond the range of weather balloons — from an unmanned semi-submersible vehicle (USSV) that has been solely designed and specially developed by China for this task.
The results of initial sea trials conducted in 2018 were published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on 31 Jan 2019.
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-018-8249-5
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The rocketsonde used in this study, which is essentially a rocket-deployed dropsonde, was designed in cooperation with Jiangxi Xinyu Guoke Technology Co., Ltd., to meet the requirements for detecting the detailed vertical structure of the low-level troposphere at sea.


Note that these rockets have a maximum design apogee of 8 km, with a max achieved-so-far apogee of 1.2 km. So, not space rockets.
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #301 on: 02/01/2019 08:37 am »
Note that these rockets have a maximum design apogee of 8 km, with a max achieved-so-far apogee of 1.2 km. So, not space rockets.
That is true. However, it worth noting that the study is very vague about the sounding rockets used and that it describes two sea trials from June and November 2017. It might be interesting to follow on its development in 2018 and forward.

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #302 on: 04/29/2019 05:51 am »
Chinese Wave Rider Launched In Reusable Rocket
Apr 25, 2019 Bradley Perrett and Guy Norris | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

BEIJING and LOS ANGELES—The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 4,300 kph (2,800 mph) on April 23, the company behind the rocket program said.

https://aviationweek.com/space/chinese-wave-rider-launched-reusable-rocket
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #303 on: 11/07/2019 12:26 pm »
Space Trek will be conducting the maiden launch of their Exploration-1 suborbital vehicle on nov9 somewhere in Inner Mongolia

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #304 on: 11/08/2019 04:12 am »
If I got the transliteration correct, the vehicles name is 探索, Tansuo or Exploration.
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #305 on: 11/08/2019 09:14 am »
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #306 on: 11/09/2019 02:16 am »
Vehicle has thrust 159 kN, diameter 1.0 m, length 7.6 m. Other values given are 700 kg (probably total mass), 30 to 350 km (probably range of maximum height) and 4 to 10 Ma (no idea!).
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #307 on: 11/09/2019 03:08 am »
Vehicle has thrust 159 kN, diameter 1.0 m, length 7.6 m. Other values given are 700 kg (probably total mass), 30 to 350 km (probably range of maximum height) and 4 to 10 Ma (no idea!).


Vehicle Diameter 1.0m
Vehicle Height 7.4m
Max payload capacity 700kg
Vehicle mass at takeoff 5.8t
Vehicle speed in flight 4-10Ma (Assuming it's meant as Mach so 4939.28km/h-12348km/h)
Altitude range 30-350km

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #308 on: 12/22/2019 03:20 pm »
A6419/19 -  A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N394544E1092548-N393914E1060644-N392745E1010034-N383417E0925026-N37 4724E0791930-N405351E0782530-N423711E0854132-N431739E0872023-N43063 8E0935458-N415549E1012110-N410526E1063126-N401630E1093240 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA. GND - UNL, 23 DEC 06:40 2019 UNTIL 23 DEC 07:15 2019. CREATED: 22 DEC 14:29 2019

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #309 on: 12/22/2019 07:55 pm »
A6417/19 -  A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: LIKMI-BATUS-POSOT-N420435 E0805538- KASHI VOR'KHG'- HOTAN VOR'HTN'-TONAX BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA. GND - UNL, 23 DEC 06:40 2019 UNTIL 23 DEC 07:20 2019. CREATED: 22 DEC 14:17 2019

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #311 on: 12/25/2019 03:08 pm »
Tansuo-1 suborbital rocket was launched today from the same launch pad as Kuaizhou-1s in 2012-2013.
« Last Edit: 12/25/2019 03:12 pm by anik »

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #312 on: 12/26/2019 01:10 am »
A6419/19 -  A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N394544E1092548-N393914E1060644-N392745E1010034-N383417E0925026-N37 4724E0791930-N405351E0782530-N423711E0854132-N431739E0872023-N43063 8E0935458-N415549E1012110-N410526E1063126-N401630E1093240 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA. GND - UNL, 23 DEC 06:40 2019 UNTIL 23 DEC 07:15 2019. CREATED: 22 DEC 14:29 2019

Related to this JL-3 test I guess?
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #313 on: 12/26/2019 04:18 am »
Tansuo 1 (launched on 25 December 2019) video.

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #314 on: 12/26/2019 03:14 pm »
A6419/19 -  A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N394544E1092548-N393914E1060644-N392745E1010034-N383417E0925026-N37 4724E0791930-N405351E0782530-N423711E0854132-N431739E0872023-N43063 8E0935458-N415549E1012110-N410526E1063126-N401630E1093240 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA. GND - UNL, 23 DEC 06:40 2019 UNTIL 23 DEC 07:15 2019. CREATED: 22 DEC 14:29 2019

Related to this JL-3 test I guess?
Bill Gertz's article  refers to Sunday Dec 22 launch while the NOTAMed window was 1:40 am to 2:15 am EST on Monday Dec 23
Quote from:  Bill Gertz
The test firing of China’s new JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile took place Sunday in the Bohai Sea
There was a navigational warning for 2 zones in the Bohai Sea valid from Dec 23, 5:10am to 6pm Beijing Time which would be from Sunday Dec 22 4:10pm to Monday Dec 23 5am EST
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #315 on: 01/03/2020 12:11 pm »
A0031/20 -  FLW SEGMENT OF ATS RTE CLSD: 1.V67: NUKTI-JIAYUGUAN VOR'CHW'. 2.W187:OBDEG-TUSLI-KARVI. 3.W192:TUSLI-RUSDI. 4.W112:TUSLI-ADMUX. 5.SEGMENT WI AN AREA CENTERED AT DUNHUANG VOR'DNH' WITH RADIUS OF 80KM. 04 JAN 03:50 2020 UNTIL 04 JAN 04:40 2020. CREATED: 03 JAN 12:53 2020
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #316 on: 04/30/2020 02:09 am »
2 weird air space closure notices that seems to close out Jiuquan SLC and the whole Gobi desert sometime later today...... is this a SLBM test or something like that? The path to the east in intriguingly passing directly over Beijing!  :-\

A1336/20 NOTAMN
Q) ZXXX/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/3922N09432E709
A) ZBPE ZLHW ZWUQ B) 2004300840 C) 2004300935
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
N405057E0791055-N382848E0794528-N385527E0864327-N384703E0924747-
N393736E1010118-N394455E1055304-N395158E1091324-N401427E1091749-
N410732E1054936-N423131E0954557-N424531E0922147-N420713E0864356
BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. ALL ACFT SHALL BE
FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO RESTRICTED AREA.
F) GND G) UNL

A1346/20 NOTAMN
Q) ZWUQ/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/
A) ZWUQ B) 2004300840 C) 2004300928
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
LIKMI-BATUS-ESBID-POSOT-KAMUD-MAGIV-HOTAN VOR 'HTN'-TONAX BACK TO
START.
ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA.
VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL.
F) GND G) UNL
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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #317 on: 04/30/2020 03:18 am »
2 weird air space closure notices that seems to close out Jiuquan SLC and the whole Gobi desert sometime later today...... is this a SLBM test or something like that? The path to the east in intriguingly passing directly over Beijing!  :-\

A1336/20 NOTAMN
Q) ZXXX/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/3922N09432E709
A) ZBPE ZLHW ZWUQ B) 2004300840 C) 2004300935
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
N405057E0791055-N382848E0794528-N385527E0864327-N384703E0924747-
N393736E1010118-N394455E1055304-N395158E1091324-N401427E1091749-
N410732E1054936-N423131E0954557-N424531E0922147-N420713E0864356
BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. ALL ACFT SHALL BE
FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO RESTRICTED AREA.
F) GND G) UNL

A1346/20 NOTAMN
Q) ZWUQ/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/
A) ZWUQ B) 2004300840 C) 2004300928
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
LIKMI-BATUS-ESBID-POSOT-KAMUD-MAGIV-HOTAN VOR 'HTN'-TONAX BACK TO
START.
ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA.
VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL.
F) GND G) UNL

Another DF-ZF test??

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Re: Chinese sub-orbital launches
« Reply #318 on: 09/12/2020 05:36 am »
Any further information on these?  Cross-posts:
ONE
Quote from: LaunchStuff Tweet
Hmmm... 3 notams all active between the same time frame. Pink and green look to be missile testing related but the red one is same area as CZ-2C carrying HY-1D from june 10th.
Hmmmmm.....
Red NOTAM zone: close/open times: August 15 UTC 0348 and 0429.  Did anything happen?
In any event no object was cataloged
Could have been a DF-ZF target type flight.
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TWO
It seems a KZ-1A may be launched on Sep 11 at approx 0330 UTC from Jiuquan:

A3487/20 - FLW SEGMENT OF ATS RTE CLSD:
1. A596: YABRAI VOR 'YBL'-DENGKOU VOR 'DKO'.
2. V67:  N393931E1003646-YABRAI VOR 'YBL'. 11 SEP 03:10 2020 UNTIL 11 SEP 04:30 2020. CREATED: 10 SEP 13:19 2020

A3490/20 - FLW SEGMENT OF ATS RTE CLSD:
1. V67:  YABRAI VOR 'YBL'-JIAYUGUAN VOR 'CHW'.
2. W191: TOSAP-MULRU.
3. W112: BILDA-TUSLI.
4. B215: OMGUP-NIXUK. 11 SEP 03:06 2020 UNTIL 11 SEP 04:36 2020. CREATED: 10 SEP 15:14 2020
Launch could be happening now.
Nothing?
At 9ifly, they said it could be a missile launch.
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