Yaogan-30-group 02 - CZ-2C - XSLC - November 24, 2017 (18:10 UTC)

[SmallKing]

According to this official news, XSLC will conduct 7 launches from now till Feb 2018, including this one. Previous news indicated this would be 3 satellites on board, similar to Yaogan-30 01
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2017/11-06/8369574.shtml
http://bbs.9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=89653&extra=page%3D1

[SmallKing]

A3444/17 NOTAMN
Q) ZPKM/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/2647N10713E015
A) ZPKM B) 1711241800 C) 1711241827
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
N263510E1072251-N264300E1065708-N265820E1070259-N265028E1072844
BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL.
F) GND G) UNL

[Steven Pietrobon]

If I read that correctly, that's a NOTAM from 18:00 to 18:27 UTC on 24 November.

[input~2]

Here is the same NOTAM for 1st stage debris in a more usual format:

A3444/17 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N263510E1072251-N264300E1065708-N265820E1070259-N265028E1072844 BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 24 NOV 18:00 2017 UNTIL 24 NOV 18:27 2017. CREATED: 17 NOV 03:12 2017

_{Practically identical to the one for Yaogan-30-01
A2966/17 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N263510E1072250-N264301E1065708-N265820E1070259-N265028E1072844 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 29 SEP 04:13 2017 UNTIL 29 SEP 04:35 2017. CREATED: 25 SEP 07:47 2017}

[Satori]

Admitting these are SIGINT sats, can we expect a new Jianbing designation for the YG-30-XX series?

[russianhalo117]

Admitting these are SIGINT sats, can we expect a new Jianbing designation for the YG-30-XX series?

Very possible. I guess we will have to wait and see.

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Launch time will be at 18:08 UTC.

This will happen in dead middle of night on this side of Earth so I have an excuse to play with computer games an hour longer to wait for news.

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Liftoff confirmed.

[Chris Bergin]

Rui's article:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/long-march-2c-yaogan-weixing-30-02-trio/

[Liss]

Well, where are the official news?

[input~2]

Poster for fairing debris protection in NW Guangdong province

[Nordren]

Well, where are the official news?

Here: http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2017-11/25/c_1122008226.htm

[input~2]

Launch time was 18:10 UTC

[input~2]

Expected launch code is "07-81"

[input~2]

The official Chinese name of the payload "遥感三十号02组卫星" would translate as "Yaogan-30 Group 2"

[Carl G]

Reminder to all. We're now waiting for Chinese State Media info. Those are the links to post in here as they are the only media reports that will add more information to compliment Rui's article.

[input~2]

from http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2017-11-25/doc-ifypacti7934435.shtml

[GELORD]

Expected launch code is "07-81"

[Galactic Penguin SST]

[Galactic Penguin SST]

In Hi-res:

4 objects from this launch have been found by NORAD:

43028 / 2017-075A: 590 km x 604 km x 35.000 °

43029 / 2017-075B: 589 km x 604 km x 34.998 °

43030 / 2017-075C: 590 km x 604 km x 34.997 °

43031 / 2017-075D (rocket 2nd stage): 455 km x 606 km x 35.127 °

Exact liftoff time was 18:10:05.130 UTC.