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Shi Jian 11-08, CZ-2C, JSLC - October 27, 2014
by
beidou
on 24 Sep, 2014 17:52
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#1
by
Satori
on 29 Sep, 2014 13:42
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Some indications point to the launch of SJ-11 Shijian 11-08 from Jiuquan in October 2014.
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#2
by
Satori
on 29 Sep, 2014 13:49
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With a turnaround period of 18 days, the launch can take place NET October 20.
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#3
by
beidou
on 29 Sep, 2014 17:46
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With a turnaround period of 18 days, the launch can take place NET October 20.
You should really consider that people in the Chinese aerospace industry work 7days/week instead of 5days/week, then the next launch could take place as early as on October 16th.
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#4
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 30 Sep, 2014 07:21
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Hmmm......we got official confirmation (in a SJ-11-07 post-launch article) that SJ-11-08 is in parallel processing for launch at Jiuquan right now. So that essentially confirms that this one will go up in mid-October.
The same article mentions that SJ-11-08 will be the last satellite of the series.
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#5
by
Satori
on 14 Oct, 2014 17:57
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Rumours on 9ifly Chinese space forum point to a launch on October 24.
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#6
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 14 Oct, 2014 21:21
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Rumours on 9ifly Chinese space forum point to a launch on October 24.
Actually they meant
before October 24 (CE-5-T1 launch) - a clue was that people visiting the center on Oct. 12 reported that they were told not to point the camera towards that pad, which means the rocket should be there already. I think it should launch earlier than that - maybe closer to the 20th or even 18th.
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#7
by
Satori
on 15 Oct, 2014 09:04
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Rumours on 9ifly Chinese space forum point to a launch on October 24.
Actually they meant before October 24 (CE-5-T1 launch) - a clue was that people visiting the center on Oct. 12 reported that they were told not to point the camera towards that pad, which means the rocket should be there already. I think it should launch earlier than that - maybe closer to the 20th or even 18th.
Ah! The beauty of automatic translations... Thank you, GP, for the correction!!!
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#8
by
Satori
on 20 Oct, 2014 10:36
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Rumours that this launch can take place around October 28.
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#9
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 21 Oct, 2014 05:01
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Rumours that this launch can take place around October 28.
The rumors are pretty close....
A2034/14 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:N355224E0983454-N354811E0985737- N361428E0990510-N361842E0984220 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 27 OCT 06:52 2014 UNTIL 27 OCT 07:34 2014. CREATED: 21 OCT 03:20 2014
A2035/14 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:N331253E0973241-N330323E0982258 -N334527E0983435-N335501E0974354 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 27 OCT 06:52 2014 UNTIL 27 OCT 07:42 2014. CREATED: 21 OCT 03:24 2014Sounds like the launch time might be around 06:58 UTC on October 27, for a SSO with LTDN at 13:15.
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#10
by
Satori
on 26 Oct, 2014 20:26
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Let's keep an eye on this one taking place a little more than 9 hours from now...
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#11
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 27 Oct, 2014 03:18
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Let's keep an eye on this one taking place a little more than 9 hours from now...
I'm on console to watch this out.
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#12
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 27 Oct, 2014 05:58
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Launch time should have been crossed by now. Nothing to report yet....
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#13
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 27 Oct, 2014 06:29
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Confirmed successful launch. Liftoff time is 06:59 UTC.
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#14
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 27 Oct, 2014 06:55
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#15
by
Phillip Clark
on 27 Oct, 2014 07:08
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Earlier in this thread or maybe in the SJ 11-7 thread it was said that this would be the final launch in the series. I wonder what will replace what seems to be an important group of satellites.
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#16
by
chewi
on 27 Oct, 2014 07:49
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JIUQUAN, Gansu, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched an experimental satellite into preset orbit from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in its northwestern gobi desert on Monday.
The Shijian-11-08 was boosted by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:59 p.m. Beijing Time.
The satellite, which was developed by China Spacesat Co. Ltd under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, will be used to conduct scientific experiments in space.
This was the 197th flight of the Long March rocket series.
http://www.icrosschina.com/news/2014/1027/4813.shtml
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#17
by
Chris Bergin
on 27 Oct, 2014 09:50
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#18
by
chewi
on 27 Oct, 2014 10:01
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#19
by
Satori
on 27 Oct, 2014 10:54
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Exact launch time 0659:03.654UTC.
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#20
by
input~2
on 27 Oct, 2014 11:48
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2 objects have been catalogued by USSTRATCOM:
2014-066A/ 40286 in 687 x 705 km x 98.22° (presumably the S/C)
2014-066B/ 40287 in 673 x 690 km x 97.96°
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#21
by
jcm
on 28 Oct, 2014 03:16
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#22
by
Lewis007
on 28 Oct, 2014 10:30
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Short launch video:
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#23
by
limen4
on 28 Oct, 2014 18:52
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Earlier in this thread or maybe in the SJ 11-7 thread it was said that this would be the final launch in the series. I wonder what will replace what seems to be an important group of satellites.
A prototype of the SJ-11 series spacecraft was launched as SY-2 which also introduced the CAST2000 platform. It was known that SY-2 has the (secret ?) designation QS-1. QS stands for Outpost (Qiánshào; 前哨), which is likely the designation for the whole satellite based missile early warning program. 2013 saw the introduction of the CAST3000 platform by SY-5. At least one source has told that this was QS-2. So maybe in the near future we will see the first operational flight, very likely within the SJ-series.
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#24
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 02 May, 2015 17:31
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Hmm....
this article (
about one of the chief designers of the payload system on SJ-11) that was only dug out recently seems to unambiguously pointing to SJ-11 being ELINT related, with sprinkles of mentioning of signal detection here and there.
I suddenly remember that the French have similar small ELINT satellite constellations - ESSAIM and ELISA. Maybe they serve a similar purpose, but with 4 operational orbit planes?
