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#280
by
Skyrocket
on 17 May, 2018 23:26
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Any info on the launch site of the OS-X rocket?
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#281
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 18 May, 2018 05:40
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From the video, it appear, that the trajectory of the OS-X launch (red) was lower than planned (blue).
Yes, it looks like the planned peak altitude was 40 km, with actual being about 37 km. There also seemed to be a large deviation in the Z axis at 200 km downrange.
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#282
by
Lewis007
on 18 May, 2018 06:26
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#283
by
SciNews
on 18 May, 2018 08:09
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Yes, it looks like the planned peak altitude was 40 km, with actual being about 37 km. There also seemed to be a large deviation in the Z axis at 200 km downrange.
From Xinhua:
"The nine-meter-long, 7,200-kg rocket has a maximum altitude of
38.742 kilometers and a top speed of more than 5.7 times the speed of sound, according to Shu Chang, founder and CEO of OneSpace."
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/17/c_137186570.htmThe article mentions "launch center in northwest China" and "manufacturing base in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality"
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#284
by
input~2
on 04 Jun, 2018 18:54
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A2048/18 - FLW SEGMENT OF ATS RTE CLSD. 1. B215:NUKTI-IBANO. 2. G470:IBANO-BIKNO. 3. W191:MOVBI- KARVI. 4. W620:DUNHUANG VOR'DNH'-BIKNO. 5. W621:MOVBI-DUNHUANG VOR'DNH' 6. V67: N4027.9E09724.1- NUKTI. 05 JUN 02:50 2018 UNTIL 05 JUN 03:40 2018. CREATED: 04 JUN 14:28 2018
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#285
by
jcm
on 06 Aug, 2018 01:06
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https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1026268489135214592China has successfully developed and tested its first hypersonic experimental waverider vehicle. After separating from a carrier rocket, #StarrySky2, which rides its own shock waves, maintained ultrafast speeds above Mach 5.5 for 400+ seconds and reached Mach 6 (7,344 km/h).
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#286
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 06 Aug, 2018 05:46
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Here's the image that went with that post.
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#287
by
russianhalo117
on 11 Aug, 2018 20:00
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Here's the image that went with that post.
Do we know the launch site yet??
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#288
by
russianhalo117
on 11 Aug, 2018 20:02
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Here's the image that went with that post.
Do we know the launch site yet??
https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1026268489135214592
China has successfully developed and tested its first hypersonic experimental waverider vehicle. After separating from a carrier rocket, #StarrySky2, which rides its own shock waves, maintained ultrafast speeds above Mach 5.5 for 400+ seconds and reached Mach 6 (7,344 km/h).
The status was taken down not by the user.
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#289
by
limen4
on 14 Aug, 2018 19:56
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Here's the image that went with that post.
Do we know the launch site yet??
XK-2 was launched very likely from as the same location as OS-X on May 17th, i.e. from the sounding rocket range near the Alxa airport (see
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43696.40). I found some footage from a XK-2 launch video which helps to localize the position of the launch pad and the camera.
Another open question is who operates this rocket range. Maybe it is under administration of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center which supports launches from Alxa with its tracking and control facilities. Another option is that the rocket range belongs to the Huayin Ordnance Test Center (the former Base 32) which operates a large distance weapon test range north of Alxa.
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#290
by
russianhalo117
on 15 Aug, 2018 01:34
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Here's the image that went with that post.
Do we know the launch site yet??
XK-2 was launched very likely from as the same location as OS-X on May 17th, i.e. from the sounding rocket range near the Alxa airport (see https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43696.40). I found some footage from a XK-2 launch video which helps to localize the position of the launch pad and the camera.
Another open question is who operates this rocket range. Maybe it is under administration of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center which supports launches from Alxa with its tracking and control facilities. Another option is that the rocket range belongs to the Huayin Ordnance Test Center (the former Base 32) which operates a large distance weapon test range north of Alxa.
IHS Janes community thinks both because the Alxa site (multiple now airports use that name in the province) used to be home silos.
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#291
by
limen4
on 08 Sep, 2018 17:56
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Thanks to the available OS-X1 launch video made by the Jilin-1 satellite on Sep 7th, it is now possible to locate the suborbital launch pad (which is very likely also the launch pad for SQZ-1Z two days before) at 41.272869°N, 100.297910°E. Pic.1 shows 3 images from the footage and their corresponding location in a Google Earth JSLC Map. Take care that in the launch video the north direction corresponds about to the lower site. The launch pad for both missile launches is about 900 meters southwest of Site 3 Launch Test Station (or Launch Complex A according to the former CIA designation). In recent images (Pic.2 top) the launch pad is nearly not visible, but in historical images of July 2013 and before (Pic.2 bottom), the circular pad is clearly to see. Maybe this is due to camouflage measures starting in autumn 2013.
The launch video also indicates an exactly westwards launch direction.Together with the known flight distance of 169 kilometers a landing zone can be assumed (Pic.3).
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#292
by
gdelottle
on 08 Sep, 2018 20:08
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#293
by
Adrian Norris
on 12 Sep, 2018 10:32
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It's a nice video, but was it really taken from a satellite? In 24 seconds of video, the satellite would have moved ~180km, with about a 10 degree change of viewing angle - which is not apparent in the video. Were any of the Jilin satellites in a position to have captured this imagery at 04:10 UTC on 7th September?
From CelesTrak:
JILIN 1
1 40961U 15057D 18254.21349273 .00000034 00000-0 12815-4 0 9997
2 40961 97.9374 326.3792 0019641 65.7555 294.5711 14.73596860157570
JILIN-1-03
1 41914U 17002B 18253.87626794 .00000554 00000-0 38330-4 0 9992
2 41914 97.4768 323.1449 0011999 352.0557 94.5832 15.09621092 91976
JILIN-01-04
1 43022U 17074A 18253.89579380 .00000324 00000-0 24106-4 0 9994
2 43022 97.5355 348.9119 0007775 342.2611 154.9377 15.09549511 44304
JILIN-01-05
1 43023U 17074B 18253.85217422 -.00000263 00000-0 -12470-4 0 9992
2 43023 97.5352 348.9742 0008277 352.3408 155.7226 15.09547483 44294
JILIN-01-06
1 43024U 17074C 18254.25062419 .00000319 00000-0 23770-4 0 9997
2 43024 97.5359 349.3127 0010772 351.3760 35.1679 15.09556111 44355
JILIN-01-07
1 43159U 18008E 18253.89937817 -.00000075 00000-0 -72084-6 0 9991
2 43159 97.5187 326.5274 0013087 198.6040 250.0236 15.09599467 35390
JILIN-01-08
1 43160U 18008F 18253.86304883 -.00000047 00000-0 99453-6 0 9998
2 43160 97.5184 326.4315 0009033 208.2465 285.1976 15.09604873 35386
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#294
by
gdelottle
on 12 Sep, 2018 18:24
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It's a nice video, but was it really taken from a satellite? In 24 seconds of video, the satellite would have moved ~180km, with about a 10 degree change of viewing angle - which is not apparent in the video. Were any of the Jilin satellites in a position to have captured this imagery at 04:10 UTC on 7th September?
Yep, I wondered about the very same thing for a few days. As suggested
here, the playback is in slow motion.
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#295
by
Olaf
on 26 Sep, 2018 14:39
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#296
by
limen4
on 26 Sep, 2018 19:22
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#297
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 11 Oct, 2018 14:30
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There was a missile test or something like that happening at around 11:00 UTC today over northern China:
A4312/18 - THE SEGMENT JIAYUGUAN VOR 'CHW' - NUKTI OF ATS RTE V67 CLSD. 11 OCT 10:35 2018
UNTIL 11 OCT 11:10 2018. CREATED: 10 OCT 14:21 2018.....which caused lots of "rocket nebula" observations over northern China after sunset. There was even a drop zone notice in Fugu county, Yulin City, Shannxi, China (roughly 39°04' N 110°50' E) alerting of "stage dropping" between 10:50 and 11:10 UTC!
So this has nothing to do with the Soyuz.
Source with lots of "comet" photos:
http://bbs.9ifly.cn/thread-91308-1-1.html
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#298
by
Star One
on 14 Oct, 2018 20:20
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Why they are calling a boost glide vehicle a plane in this news article is anyone’s guess.
Chinese hypersonic nuclear aircraft creates plumes of light during secret test flightAlthough officials in China have yet to confirm the latest round of testing, Chinese military bloggers claim the eerie phenomenon was caused by the hypersonic glide vehicle which they know as DF-ZF.
As the DF-ZF’s test launches have all been from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China’s Shanxi province – and because no other satellite launches were reported on the day – the sightings seem to corroborate suggestions that it was indeed the plane’s eighth flight test to date.
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#299
by
input~2
on 14 Jan, 2019 07:45
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A0124/19 - FLW SEGMENT OF ATS RTE CLSD: 1.W112: 280KM EAST OF HOTAN VOR 'HTN'-ADMUX. 2.L888: SADAN-TONAX. 3.Y1: SADAN-MAGOD. 4.W187: SADAN-OBDEG. 14 JAN 11:00 2019 UNTIL 14 JAN 12:10 2019. CREATED: 13 JAN 15:21 2019
A0123/19 - ALL SCHEDULED FLIGHT AFFECTED BY TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA, SHALL JOINT INTO/BREAK AWAY FLW TEMPORARY ROUTE NEAR ORIGINAL ROUTE: PURPA-B215-DUKOM-W188-GOVSA-W66-GOBIN-B330-ZIYANG VOR ZYG-W24-WEINING NDB HX-G212-PANLONG VOR XFA-A581-XISHAN VOR SGM-A599-LINSO. OR LINSO-A599-XISHAN VOR SGM-W144-KAKMI-G212-JINTANG VOR JTG-B330 -YABRAI VOR YBL-V67-NUKTI-B215-PURPA. GND - UNL, 14 JAN 11:18 2019 UNTIL 14 JAN 11:58 2019. CREATED: 13 JAN 13:48 2019
A0122/19 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: SOUTH OF LATITUDE N40 AND EAST OF LONGITUDE E082. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA,ACFT SHALL AVOID THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA BY ATC. GND - UNL, 14 JAN 11:18 2019 UNTIL 14 JAN 11:58 2019. CREATED: 13 JAN 13:45 2019
A0121/19 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: NORTH OF LATITUDE N29.9 AND WEST OF LONGITUDE E099.6. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA, ACFT SHALL AVOID THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA BY ATC. GND - UNL, 14 JAN 11:18 2019 UNTIL 14 JAN 11:58 2019. CREATED: 13 JAN 13:41 2019
A0120/19 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N3945E09208-OMGUP(NOT INCLUSIVE)-N3918E10120-N385549E10124-N3736E09936 -N3211E09936 TO BOUNDARY OF LANZHOU FIR IN SOUTH-WEST DIRECTION. ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA, ACFT SHALL AVOID THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA BY ATC. GND - UNL, 14 JAN 11:18 2019 UNTIL 14 JAN 11:58 2019. CREATED: 13 JAN 13:38 2019
A0119/19 - FLW SEGMENT OF ATS RTE CLSD: 1.L888: TONAX-SANLI. 2.Y2: MEPEP-LUVAR. 3.Y1: MAGOD-N3507.6 E10005.6. 4.W192: RUSDI-TUSLI-DUMIN. 5.B215: NOGEX-TODOD. 6.W191: VIKUP-RUSAT. 7.W619: MULRU-BILDA. 8.W112: ADMUX-TUSLI-VIKUP. 9.W187: OBDEG-TUSLI-KARVI. 14 JAN 11:08 2019 UNTIL 14 JAN 12:08 2019. CREATED: 13 JAN 13:09 2019
