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#420
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Ollopa11
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:29
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Congratulations to the People's Liberation Army on another truly great success. Next stop, the Moon? Questions: Why is Europe prioritising the Moon over Mars colonies? Why is Paul Spudis screaming from the bleachers for NASA to do the same? Europe is awake. But is the West awake?
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#421
by
snowhole
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:30
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Screenshot of flightradar showing a very visible no fly zone.
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#422
by
zubenelgenubi
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:32
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Not sure what is going on here!
My semi-educated guess: emergency medical technician training.
It looks like the one is preparing to apply a bandage to the other's exposed arm?
And, the mannequin on the floor looks like a "resusci-Annie" for CPR training.
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#423
by
DwightM
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:33
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Thanks all very much for the coverage. On vaca in NZ, glad I could tune in to NSF!
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#424
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:34
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Some closing shots from the broadcast. The Taikonauts saluted just before liftoff!
Congratulations to China for the successful launch!
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#425
by
savuporo
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:48
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Congratulations to China for the successful launch!
Congrats as well ! I hope they keep the channels open and keep everyone informed about whats going on with the spacecraft and the mission over the next coming weeks
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#426
by
Chris Bergin
on 17 Oct, 2016 00:58
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Congratulations to the People's Liberation Army on another truly great success. Next stop, the Moon? Questions: Why is Europe prioritising the Moon over Mars colonies? Why is Paul Spudis screaming from the bleachers for NASA to do the same? Europe is awake. But is the West awake?
Wrong thread for this. This thread is about the launch....
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#427
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 17 Oct, 2016 03:18
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For those waiting for better photos of the launch, here they are from the Xinhua News Agency:
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#428
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 17 Oct, 2016 03:23
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#429
by
eeergo
on 17 Oct, 2016 06:53
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Retrieval of the lower section of the fairing, from ChinaSpaceFlight's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/cnspaceflightNote the -open- grid fins on the upper right picture. I think you can see the ingress hatch in the lower right image.
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#430
by
eeergo
on 17 Oct, 2016 06:57
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Also from the above source, start of barbecue roll was confirmed in view of the Marrakesh ground station (didn't know there was one there!).
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#431
by
Phillip Clark
on 17 Oct, 2016 09:13
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Nearly ten hours after launch and no TLEs yet.
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#432
by
sdsds
on 17 Oct, 2016 09:42
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#433
by
PahTo
on 17 Oct, 2016 14:13
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Little late, but let me add my congrats to the teams involved with this successful launch. On to a successful stay on orbit/mission. Thanks to NSF for the coverage.
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#434
by
Chris Bergin
on 17 Oct, 2016 14:36
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Do we have a good time for the expected docking? (Per coverage requirements).
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#435
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 17 Oct, 2016 14:43
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Do we have a good time for the expected docking? (Per coverage requirements).
No idea, but for Shenzhou 8/9/10 all 3 missions dock with TG-1 about 43.5 hours after launch.
If this is repeated again then docking would be at around 19:00 UTC on the 18th.
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#436
by
savuporo
on 17 Oct, 2016 19:05
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#437
by
Phillip Clark
on 18 Oct, 2016 06:21
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I am sure that a planned docking time of 19:40 UT was posted on this thread or the Tiangong 2 thread about a week or so ago.
Have the Chinese given any times of the orbital manoeuvres? We got the full manoeuvre details for SZ 8 and 9 but not for 10, presumably because the Chinese didn't want to repeat the same details for every mission.
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#438
by
eeergo
on 18 Oct, 2016 08:44
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#439
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 18 Oct, 2016 10:01
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Do we have a good time for the expected docking? (Per coverage requirements).
No idea, but for Shenzhou 8/9/10 all 3 missions dock with TG-1 about 43.5 hours after launch.
If this is repeated again then docking would be at around 19:00 UTC on the 18th.
It seems that docking will occur ~19:30 UTC today (claimed to be from a CCTV report and in line with previous estimates). There are reports that CCTV will cover it live from 19:00 UTC up to hatch opening scheduled around 22:00 UTC.