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Wow. Another near miss in Guangxi following a Long March 3B launch of Beidou satellites from Xichang. This time in Tianlin county.

https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/962945339123798017

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Oh and launch success has just been officially confirmed. T-0 was at 05:03 UTC.
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So, launch delayed by 24 hours.
The reason for the delay was Xi Jinping visited XSLC the day before yesterday

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Ah, so the reason the Long March 3B/YZ-1 launch was pushed back to today was a visit by Xi Jinping to Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on the 10th.

https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/963018008611389441

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A first object has been cataloged by USSTRATCOM

2018-018A/43207 in 160 x 22158 km x 54.85°

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From Xinhua

China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into orbit
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/12/c_136970281.htm

XICHANG, Sichuan, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- China sent two satellites into orbit on a single carrier rocket for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Monday.

The twin satellites, which form a network with four previously launched BeiDou-3 satellites, were the fifth and sixth satellites in the BeiDou-3 family. They entered orbit more than three hours after the launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

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Beidou-3 navigation satellites launched by Long March-3B

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Can anyone with better eyesight than mine (99% of the population!) see the launch vehicle serial number on any of the photos please?
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Launch time 05:03:04.218UTC

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A first object has been cataloged by USSTRATCOM

2018-018A/43207 in 160 x 22158 km x 54.85°
3 more Objects and old Object A seems to have become new Object C (CZ-3B 3rd stage?)

2018-018A/43207 in 21465 x 22170 km x 55.0° (S/C?)
2018-018B/43208 in 21539 x 22191 km x 54.99° (S/C?)
2018-018C/43209 in 164 x 18630 km x 54.93° (3rd stage?)
2018-018D/43210 in 22184 x 22285 km x 54.80° (YZ-1?)
« Last Edit: 02/12/2018 04:46 pm by input~2 »

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So, launch delayed by 24 hours.
The reason for the delay was Xi Jinping visited XSLC the day before yesterday

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Ah, so the reason the Long March 3B/YZ-1 launch was pushed back to today was a visit by Xi Jinping to Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on the 10th.

https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/963018008611389441

Hmm...Why not visit, AND view a launch?  It was a mid-day LT, and he IS head of government and head of state.

Did he (or his political advisers) not want to be on-site in case of the slight chance that the launch would less than nominal?

Or security concerns about launch hazards?
« Last Edit: 02/13/2018 07:20 pm by zubenelgenubi »
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