Author Topic: Shenzhou 10 (SZ-10), Long March 2F/G (CZ-2F/G) - Jiuquan - June 2013  (Read 159105 times)

Offline Bubbinski

A local newspaper in Shandong reports a 09:37 UTC launch time on Tuesday.

ah 3:37 am Mountain Tuesday morning.  Too bad it's a work night.  I'll see if I can drag my carcass out of bed and log on to NSF.com.
I'll even excitedly look forward to "flags and footprints" and suborbital missions. Just fly...somewhere.

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The Chinese media has been especially quiet on this mission even with less than 48 hours left... ???

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http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=11442&pid=253145

More precise launch time: 09:37:59 UTC

And if the same news report is to be trusted, then I have some pretty bad news for those tracking the mission: thanks to this mission being, um, rather boring to the public, coverage on this mission has been cut drastically. It claims that live coverage of the launch won't start until T-5 minutes (!?) and they aren't even bothering to show the docking live!  :o
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Official announcement:

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天宫一号和神舟十号载人飞行任务总指挥部决定,定于6月11日17时38分发射神舟十号载人飞船,飞行乘组由聂海胜、张晓光和王亚平(女)组成,聂海胜担任指令长。今天下午,执行此次发射任务的长征二号F遥十火箭开始加注推进剂。

Google translation:
Tiangong 1 and Shenzhou 10 manned mission headquarters decided the launch time of Shenzhou 10 manned spacecraft on June 11 at 17:38 and the crew of Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping (female) composition, with Nie Haisheng as commander. This afternoon, the implementation of the mission starts with the filling propellant into the launch vehicle Long March II F №Y10.
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A few images from a CCTV news report about the crew...

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The crew... Nie Haisheng.

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The crew... Zhang Xiaoguang.

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The crew... Wang Yaping.

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Crew training...

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« Last Edit: 06/10/2013 08:41 am by Satori »

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We will have the yuhangyuan press conference in less than 20 minutes.

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