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#20
by
SmallKing
on 18 Sep, 2017 11:41
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#21
by
Satori
on 18 Sep, 2017 11:53
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#22
by
chewi
on 18 Sep, 2017 12:15
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China to launch more BeiDou-3 satellites in 2017BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- More BeiDou-3 satellites will be launched in November 2017, according to a senior designer of the satellite navigation system.
By the end of this year, two more groups of BeiDou-3 satellites will be sent into space, said Ran Chengqi of state-owned Beidou Navigation Satellite System on Monday at a high-tech forum.
The satellite navigation system will provide services for Belt and Road countries around 2018, and form a complete global satellite navigation system by 2020, said Ran. BeiDou-3's position accuracy is less than five meters, he said.
Currently, the system is able to provide open services to the Asia-Pacific region. China is the third country to develop a satellite navigation system after the United States and Russia.
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#23
by
Satori
on 18 Sep, 2017 12:17
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#24
by
Satori
on 28 Sep, 2017 19:25
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Chinaspaceflight.com is given November 12 as the launch date for the first pair of Beidou-3 sats launch.
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#25
by
SmallKing
on 16 Oct, 2017 14:35
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A insider said Nov. 3 in 9ifly forum
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#26
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 16 Oct, 2017 14:41
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A insider said Nov. 3 in 9ifly forum
Here's the source.
This actually make more sense with respect to the timing that the tracking ships are heading to the South Pacific again for this part of the launch season (
Yuan Wang 7 departed on October 11 with 3 and 6 to leave later).
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#27
by
zubenelgenubi
on 17 Oct, 2017 18:57
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This launch should be the CZ-3B "return to flight" after the partial launch failure of ZX-9A on June 18, 2017.
(see launch thread
here)
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#28
by
SmallKing
on 20 Oct, 2017 13:10
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#29
by
SmallKing
on 25 Oct, 2017 12:42
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#30
by
SmallKing
on 25 Oct, 2017 12:42
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#31
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2017 05:47
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The launch is now on November 5 according to Chinese sources.
Also the BDS office has confirmed that their next pair of satellites will be launched in early November so the payload are also identified.
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#32
by
SmallKing
on 29 Oct, 2017 12:06
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Ready to launch. The photo is taken today
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#33
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 02 Nov, 2017 03:09
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This air space closure notice seems to be related to this launch:
A3292/17 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N180540E1115053-N184350E1111900-N181640E1104331-N173836E1111528 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:SFC-UNL. SFC - UNL, 05 NOV 11:30 2017 UNTIL 05 NOV 12:03 2017. CREATED: 02 NOV 02:33 2017
Launch time would then be around 11:40 UTC.
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#34
by
input~2
on 02 Nov, 2017 08:00
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This air space closure notice seems to be related to this launch:
A3292/17 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY: N180540E1115053-N184350E1111900-N181640E1104331-N173836E1111528 BACK TO START.VERTICAL LIMITS:SFC-UNL. SFC - UNL, 05 NOV 11:30 2017 UNTIL 05 NOV 12:03 2017. CREATED: 02 NOV 02:33 2017
Launch time would then be around 11:40 UTC.
This looks like the
fairing debris area for CZ-3B for Compass M3/M4 in April 2012Launch time was 16 minutes after closure start time
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#35
by
SmallKing
on 05 Nov, 2017 03:17
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#36
by
Liss
on 05 Nov, 2017 10:05
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The launch time is said to be 19:34 Beijing = 11:34 UTC.
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#37
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Nov, 2017 10:16
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It seems there will be a commercial live coverage for this launch, maybe Kris Wu will show up in this event 
Unfortunately I will have a class in the launch time, can't watch it
http://x.pps.tv/room/160855
Source: https://weibo.com/5618331923/Ftz3vs3oh?type=comment#_rnd1509855570852
It looks like they don't have a good enough signal to keep continuous coverage anyway so just forget about the link.
T-0 is apparently at 11:34 UTC.
<Slightly OT background info> About this Kris Wu guy - he's a Chinese actor who was a former member of one of the most famous K-POP groups (and probably one of the very few Chinese who made to the forefront of Korean pop). He's currently in Xichang for a charity event (Xichang is one of China's poorest places and IIRC many are living below the $1 US poverty line).
Sorry for the digress....
</Slightly OT background info>
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#38
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Nov, 2017 10:39
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Nope, T-0 is still around 10 minutes away.
Also note that due to direct orbit injection we might not see official confirmation of launch until 4 hours after liftoff.
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#39
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Nov, 2017 10:48
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Oh, liftoff confirmed!
