A very strange NOTAM that indicates something being launched out of XSLC on the night of May 12 (missile test?): A0507/13 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:N272440E1062527-N270348E1061854 -N271521E1053214-N273614E1053838BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: SFC-UNL.ALL ACFT ARE PROHIBITED TOFLY INTO THE AREA. SFC - UNL, 12 MAY 12:57 2013 UNTIL 12 MAY 13:46 2013. CREATED:10 MAY 06:48 2013There's another evidence that may or may not be related to this thing - report coming soon.
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 05/10/2013 07:56 amA very strange NOTAM that indicates something being launched out of XSLC on the night of May 12 (missile test?): A0507/13 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:N272440E1062527-N270348E1061854 -N271521E1053214-N273614E1053838BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: SFC-UNL.ALL ACFT ARE PROHIBITED TOFLY INTO THE AREA. SFC - UNL, 12 MAY 12:57 2013 UNTIL 12 MAY 13:46 2013. CREATED:10 MAY 06:48 2013There's another evidence that may or may not be related to this thing - report coming soon.OK I have seen two tweets on May 8 from two people in different places - one in Dao County in Hunan and another near Zhaotong in Yunnan - that reports that there will be a rocket launch in the next few days and that rocket debris will fall over their heads, so the local people are warned beforehand. The one from Yunnan went further and said that this is the first time that their place is being targeted as a drop zone (claimed to be the first stage). Both places lines up with the straight line that stretches from XSLC to the air closure zone indicated above.The strange thing is that the drop zone is a mere 400 km from the launch site, has never been flown before in such a direction, and is happening at night time (~9 pm local). Missile test? Or something else.....
A0523/13 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N272440E1062527-N270348E1061854 -N271521E1053214-N273614E1053838 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: SFC-UNL.ALL ACFT ARE PROHIBITED TO FLY INTO THE AREA. SFC - UNL, 13 MAY 12:47 2013 UNTIL 13 MAY 13:36 2013. CREATED: 12 MAY 11:34 2013
It's back, now on May 13QuoteA0523/13 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N272440E1062527-N270348E1061854 -N271521E1053214-N273614E1053838 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: SFC-UNL.ALL ACFT ARE PROHIBITED TO FLY INTO THE AREA. SFC - UNL, 13 MAY 12:47 2013 UNTIL 13 MAY 13:36 2013. CREATED: 12 MAY 11:34 2013
Quote from: input~2 on 05/12/2013 12:34 pmIt's back, now on May 13QuoteA0523/13 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N272440E1062527-N270348E1061854 -N271521E1053214-N273614E1053838 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: SFC-UNL.ALL ACFT ARE PROHIBITED TO FLY INTO THE AREA. SFC - UNL, 13 MAY 12:47 2013 UNTIL 13 MAY 13:36 2013. CREATED: 12 MAY 11:34 2013 People being chased off their houses right now.....It would be absolutely weird if a missile launch would require evacuating towns and villages in several different spots, but I have no explanation on what on earth is that thing being launched right now (doubt it's aimed towards orbit though).Expect UFO reports soon.....
Launched around 13:00 UTC - lots of observation reports ranging from Chengdu to Kunming, as well as UFOs from Chongqing all the way to Wuhan and Hainan island! Edit: Even more reports from places further downstream - including one in Fujian and at least 3 in Guangdong. Damn! I should have get out and look around if I can see the "purple comet tail" from Hong Kong....
I have to pose the question: if this launch is "Dongneng-2" then what was Dongneng-1? And what does this name translate as please?
Here is the official story, just another sounding rocket. However, if this is a sounding rocket, it is the most high profile sounding rocket I have ever seen.http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cas.ac.cn%2Fky%2Fkyjz%2F201305%2Ft20130514_3839206.shtml&act=url