Can some of our Chinese speaking friends see the conversation that is going on on the 9ifly Chinese space forum about this launches?Thank you!
Quote from: Satori on 11/09/2015 05:27 pmCan some of our Chinese speaking friends see the conversation that is going on on the 9ifly Chinese space forum about this launches?Thank you!Likely this launch is going to be from TSLC, not JSLC. That's all I can tell.
Quote from: beidou on 11/09/2015 07:39 pmQuote from: Satori on 11/09/2015 05:27 pmCan some of our Chinese speaking friends see the conversation that is going on on the 9ifly Chinese space forum about this launches?Thank you!Likely this launch is going to be from TSLC, not JSLC. That's all I can tell.Are they talking about a possible suborbital launch from Jiuquan?
Likely this will be deferred to 2016.
Launch succeeded!! More info to be followed. Best gifts for thanksgiving:)
Long March 4C, right - and from which launch site? Oh and we'll need a T-0.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 11/26/2015 11:44 pmLong March 4C, right - and from which launch site? Oh and we'll need a T-0.LC9, 21:24 UT.
Cataloged as 41038 in a 615 x 619 km x 97.8 deg sunsync orbit with 0430 local time node.Rocket stage in 483 x 621 km.This is the same profile as the Jianbing-5 radar satellites (Yaogan 1, 3, 10 )although they all had 0600 local time nodes. I think this is a radar satellite, most likely another JB-5 or a successor generation.
[ This link actually claims the satellite has 0.5 m resolution and an imaging swap width 6 times of its predecessors.
Urghhhh I knew from rumors that there would be a launch from that very pad in late November (with someone even guessing the payload as a radar sat something like what launched hours ago!), but the pre-launch confirmation never came. Quote from: jcm on 11/27/2015 12:25 amCataloged as 41038 in a 615 x 619 km x 97.8 deg sunsync orbit with 0430 local time node.Rocket stage in 483 x 621 km.This is the same profile as the Jianbing-5 radar satellites (Yaogan 1, 3, 10 )although they all had 0600 local time nodes. I think this is a radar satellite, most likely another JB-5 or a successor generation.This link actually claims the satellite has 0.5 m resolution and an imaging swap width 6 times of its predecessors.