Author Topic: BeiDou-3 M11 & M12 - CZ-3B/YZ-1 - XSLC - August 24, 2018 (23:52 UTC)  (Read 13780 times)

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 Liftoff confirmed 23:53 UTC
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Launch success has been officially confirmed with actual T-0 at 23:52 UTC.

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http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2018-08-25/doc-ihicsiaw9275103.shtml

Launch success. This article gives 0752 BjT   (2352 UTC) as the launch time


http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2018/08-25/8610025.shtml

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« Last Edit: 08/25/2018 04:10 am by jcm »
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http://russian.news.cn/2018-08/25/c_137417910.htm
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Сичан /пров. Сычуань/, 25 августа /Синьхуа/ -- В субботу Китай с помощью ракеты-носителя "Чанчжэн-3Б" /серия "Великий поход"/ вывел на орбиту два навигационных спутника "Бэйдоу-3".
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Video of the launch

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Is there any information about the serial numbers?
CZ-3B ...
YZ-1...
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Launch time: 23:52:04.350

According to @GELORD video:

Launch time: 23:52:04.550 !
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Is there any information about the serial numbers?
CZ-3B ...
YZ-1...


Also looking for this. (Best guess is Y50 and Y9 based on sequence of earlier Beidou flights but would be nice
to get confirmation)

Objects are 43602-43605
Two objects with TLEs so far, one in the target orbit 21532 x 22193 km x 55.0 and one which must be the third stage in
a 192 x 18630 km transfer orbit
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Confirmation Y50 for CZ-3B
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Object A has now been cataloged
2018-067A/43602 in 21539 x 22193 km x 55.01°

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and confirmation Y9 for YZ-1

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and we've got Object D (presumably YZ-1)
2018-067D/43605 in 22195 x 22397 km x 54.74°
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Two Line Element Set (TLE):

43602 / 2018-067A — BEIDOU 3M11
1 43602U 18067A 18241.76839644 .00000021 00000-0 00000+0 0 9992
2 43602 55.0044 278.2096 0115996 176.9972 343.5869 1.82875411 84

43603 / 2018-067B — BEIDOU 3M12
1 43603U 18067B 18241.70136955 .00000021 00000-0 00000+0 0 9992
2 43603 55.0196 278.2101 0049967 177.0975 317.9983 1.84796768 91

43604 / 2018-067C — CZ-3B R/B
1 43604U 18067C 18240.10268944 .00082134 -47351-6 15446-2 0 9995
2 43604 55.0238 276.6293 5839768 171.4780 206.1523 4.38038090 140

43605 / 2018-067D — YZ-1 (Yuanzheng-1) R/B
1 43605U 18067D 18241.06502311 .00000026 00000-0 00000+0 0 9991
2 43605 54.7360 278.0516 0035604 356.9300 3.1385 1.78799686 65
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Shoud be the second launch to Plane C, PRNs C29 and C30.
I meant C25 and C26 of course.
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43603 has already stabilized itself at C-8, 43602 continues towards C-6.
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The latest elset for 43602 shows orbit change on approach to position C-2.
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The latest elset for 43602 shows orbit change on approach to position C-2.
The bird has arrived to C-2 by Sep 24.
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