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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Chinese Launchers => Topic started by: Satori on 11/10/2016 09:45 am
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A CZ-2D rocket will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on November 11, 2016, carrying an yet unspecified satellite (possibly a Yaogan Weixing).
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Looks like the cargo on board is the Yunhai-1 satellite.
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Chinaspaceflight.com is reporting two NOTAM's for Jiuquan on the 12th. Possibly a CZ-2D (Yaogan?) launch?
Does anyone have the NOTAMs information?
If so, what is the launch trajectory, apparent orbital inclination, etc.?
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Chinaspaceflight.com is reporting two NOTAM's for Jiuquan on the 12th. Possibly a CZ-2D (Yaogan?) launch?
Does anyone have the NOTAMs information?
If so, what is the launch trajectory, apparent orbital inclination, etc.?
Typical run-of-the-mill SSO:
A2942/16 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N322627E0974800-N323148E0972316-N332414E0973900-N331850E0980357 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 11 NOV 23:07 2016 UNTIL 11 NOV 23:35 2016. CREATED: 10 NOV 07:37 2016
A2941/16 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N345502E0983004-N345920E0981124-N352808E0982024-N352244E0984557 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 11 NOV 23:06 2016 UNTIL 11 NOV 23:29 2016. CREATED: 10 NOV 07:36 2016
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Any information about the Yunhai-1 satellites? Looks like is some sort of mission to study clouds using radio occultation?
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Any information about the Yunhai-1 satellites? Looks like is some sort of mission to study clouds using radio occultation?
More like general meteorological observation - however given that more than one insider sources on Chinese forums are deliberately mum on this I think it's a classified mission. Which reminds me that CAST's Shenzhen branch was to build some kind of "military weather satellite constellation" as of a year or two ago - maybe this will be the first satellite. :-X
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Chinaspaceflight.com is reporting two NOTAM's for Jiuquan on the 12th. Possibly a CZ-2D (Yaogan?) launch?
Does anyone have the NOTAMs information?
If so, what is the launch trajectory, apparent orbital inclination, etc.?
Typical run-of-the-mill SSO:
A2942/16 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N322627E0974800-N323148E0972316-N332414E0973900-N331850E0980357 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 11 NOV 23:07 2016 UNTIL 11 NOV 23:35 2016. CREATED: 10 NOV 07:37 2016
A2941/16 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N345502E0983004-N345920E0981124-N352808E0982024-N352244E0984557 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 11 NOV 23:06 2016 UNTIL 11 NOV 23:29 2016. CREATED: 10 NOV 07:36 2016
Now in 'ooh, pretty colors!' format
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Any information about the Yunhai-1 satellites? Looks like is some sort of mission to study clouds using radio occultation?
More like general meteorological observation - however given that more than one insider sources on Chinese forums are deliberately mum on this I think it's a classified mission. Which reminds me that CAST's Shenzhen branch was to build some kind of "military weather satellite constellation" as of a year or two ago - maybe this will be the first satellite. :-X
If your supposition is correct:
Why (apparently) would the Chinese start duplicating the NOAA POES/USAF DMSP dichotomy?
(NOAA, NASA, and USAF tried to combine the separate programs after the end of the Cold War.)
Why not load all the SSO meteorology capability for civilian and military requirements onto their Feng Yun satellites?
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Add this one
A2954/16 - THE FLW ATS RTE CLSD: 1. Y1:MEPEP-OMBON. 2. Y2:MEPEP-LUVAR. 3. L888:MUMAN-LUVAR. 11 NOV 23:04 2016 UNTIL 11 NOV 23:30 2016. CREATED: 11 NOV 13:09 2016
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Any information about the Yunhai-1 satellites? Looks like is some sort of mission to study clouds using radio occultation?
More like general meteorological observation - however given that more than one insider sources on Chinese forums are deliberately mum on this I think it's a classified mission. Which reminds me that CAST's Shenzhen branch was to build some kind of "military weather satellite constellation" as of a year or two ago - maybe this will be the first satellite. :-X
Oh wait, the start of this satellite's rumor is that an SAST team left for the launch site. Nevermind the last part.....
.....and I'm waiting for launch confirmation.
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Launched at 23:14UTC.
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Rui's article :)
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/11/long-march-2d-launches-weather-yunhai-01/
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Satellite to be used for the exploration of atmospheric environmental elements, space environment detection, disaster prevention and mitigation, and scientific experiments.
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Any information about the Yunhai-1 satellites? Looks like is some sort of mission to study clouds using radio occultation?
More like general meteorological observation - however given that more than one insider sources on Chinese forums are deliberately mum on this I think it's a classified mission. Which reminds me that CAST's Shenzhen branch was to build some kind of "military weather satellite constellation" as of a year or two ago - maybe this will be the first satellite. :-X
Oh wait, the start of this satellite's rumor is that an SAST team left for the launch site. Nevermind the last part.....
.....and I'm waiting for launch confirmation.
It seems that the one I mentioned earlier has received the "Yunhai-2" name. :-X
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So the rocket body impact in Myanmar might be related?
Nope, it's from another launch 2 days ago that flew from only meters away from this one: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41046.0 (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41046.0)
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So the rocket body impact in Myanmar might be related?
Nope, it's from another launch 2 days ago that flew from only meters away from this one: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41046.0 (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41046.0)
Thanks, I finally did the math!
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Still waiting for any further statements about the satellite..... :-X
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Two objects found:
41857/2016-068A: 747 x 798 km x 98.36°
41858/2016-068B: 760 x 787 km x 98.48°
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Launch video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coRr_j_vmfM
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Still waiting for any further statements about the satellite..... :-X
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