Quote from: input~2 on 09/18/2018 08:13 amNext satellite for Venezuela built and launched by China will be called "El Guaicaipuro". No more details so far.sourceSpaceflightfans.cn is giving an October launch date for VRSS-3. Very skeptical about this.
Next satellite for Venezuela built and launched by China will be called "El Guaicaipuro". No more details so far.source
Launch date is October 27, as anounced by the company at the IAC 2018 in Bremen yesterday.
Quote from: input~2 on 10/03/2018 02:49 pmPresumably around October 10thOr 14th, according to Spaceflightfans.cn.
Presumably around October 10th
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Also current rumors gives the launch date as December 8.
Per Chinese rumors there should be a launch out of Taiyuan "relatively soon", with a CASC built payload.Dunno how long "relatively soon" is....<snip>
China launch schedule2018October - CZ-4B - TSLC, LC9 - HY-2B Haiyang-2BAugust 11
The development of HY-2A, the first of the series of HY-2 series of satellites sponsored by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), was approved by Chinese authorities on January, 2007. The spacecraft is three-axis stabilized using the CAST968 satellite platform. The spacecraft is being developed by the DFH (Dongfanghong Satellite Corporation Ltd.), a spin-off company of CASC (China Aerospace Science &Technology Corporation), Beijing, China.
The Chinese rocket engineers would appear to be in several stages of recovery from four different partial or full launch failures of four launch vehicles:CZ-4C failure, Aug. 31, 2016CZ-2D partial launch failure, Dec. 28, 2016CZ-3B/G2 partial launch failure, June 18, 2017CZ-5 failure, July 2, 2017
The launch date ended up on the 15th.<snipped NOTAM>
Any info regarding the status of SaudiSAT-5B?
SaudiSat-5A and -5B are the second generation of Saudi-made Earth observation satellites, replacing the SaudiSat-2 (launched in 2004) and SaudiSat-3 (launched in 2007) remote sensing satellites that were also manufactured by KACST, SpaceWatch.Global reports.The two 200 kg high-resolution Earth observation satellites are to be launched later this year from China, via a Long March 2D launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.
Launch will be on Nov 1st.
Cross-post re: Beidou-3G1Q launch date:Quote from: beidou on 10/19/2018 08:52 pmLaunch will be on Nov 1st.
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 10/23/2018 03:41 amThis insider forum member claims that launch will occur on the morning of October 25 LT. Assuming it is using the same orbit as HY-2A, the launch time might even look more like October 24 at ~23:00 UTC.This other member (also an insider source I think) concurs and gives a 22:55 UTC launch time.<snip>
This insider forum member claims that launch will occur on the morning of October 25 LT. Assuming it is using the same orbit as HY-2A, the launch time might even look more like October 24 at ~23:00 UTC.
Per CNES, the launch will be on October 29 at 00:30 UTC: https://gbtimes.com/china-france-oceanography-satellite-to-launch-from-jiuquan-on-mondayTechnical details of the satellite: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cfosat
9ifly now has the T-0 at 15:57 UTC on November 1; however NOTAMs are still unavailable right now. 🤔
