Author Topic: Long March-11 first launch - Jiuquan - September 25, 2015 (01:41 UTC)  (Read 48471 times)

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Very fast development timeline -- I wouldn't be surprised if CZ-11 turns out to be a modification of an existing missile.

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China's first solid-fuel rocket to debut before 2016: official
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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.
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Re: First CZ-11 launch expected before 2016
« Reply #1 on: 03/02/2013 12:55 pm »
They are forgetting the KT-1 launch vehicle.

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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.



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Re: First CZ-11 launch expected before 2016
« Reply #2 on: 03/02/2013 02:43 pm »
They are forgetting the KT-1 launch vehicle.

Speaking of that, could you recommend any good summary of what is known and speculated about the KT-1?  I tried to follow it for a while, but came away very confused.
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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)!  :o

The payload will apparently be 3 ham radio mini-satellites. I wonder which 3 will they be?  :-X
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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)!  :o

The payload will apparently be 3 ham radio mini-satellites. I wonder which 3 will they be?  :-X

It looks like that they might be TW-1A/B/C from CAS' Shanghai Micro-satellite Engineering Center. Previous reports stated that their planned orbit is a 481 km altitude SSO.
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Any information regarding the main characteristics of the CZ-11 would be very appreciated.

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Can someone please help in translating this?

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If CZ-11 will be really launched from Jiuquan, can it be from one of two Kuaizhou launch pads?
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Can someone please help in translating this?

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Dear Editor:
   I am the leader of the R&D team of cube satellite in the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites. I read the news report “SECM-1 Mission in Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites: SkyNet No. 1 ABC satellite triplet” on your website in September 19th. Because of the content and unknown resource, I write this e-mail and hope that you will withdraw the report. Our main concern:

1.   While the report is about the research activities of our team, members of our team and the engineer center have never been contacted/interviewed.
2.   Part of the report will make bad influence and damage the public image of the engineer center.

Therefore, we hope that you can withdraw the report to avoid further damage. We will reserve the right to take legal action. Any report about us should ask our agreement first.

Shu-Fang Wu

Not a very precise translation. But you got the point.


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Can someone please help in translating this?

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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.



Thank you enix!

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Using Google translation on a post on the 9ifly space forum, looks like the launch is schedule for 1455UTC.

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Using 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.  :-X
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Using 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.  :-X

Ak, ok, thank you for the note!

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Are any other payloads known besides the three Tianwang cubesats?

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Are any other payloads known besides the three Tianwang cubesats?

Not that I'm aware of.

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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 2015

So 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.  ;)
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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?  :P
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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?  :P
Yes looks indeed like a launch canister. The model shown of the CZ-11 looks certainly different.

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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?  :P
Yes looks indeed like a launch canister. The model shown of the CZ-11 looks certainly different.

Yup!
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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 2015

So 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.  ;)
A representation of the NOTAMed drop zone

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