Author Topic: Zhongzi Group 01 (x5) - CZ-6 - TSLC - November 13, 2019 (06:35 UTC) (Read 27133 times)

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #20 on:** 11/13/2019 10:03 am »

https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/status/1194547677926694912

tehwkd · « **Reply #21 on:** 11/13/2019 11:22 am »

0635:14 UTC looks to be the exact T-0

https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/status/1194590766426918912

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #22 on:** 11/13/2019 12:01 pm »

Something's fishy about these 5 satellites.....

So apparently someone dug out an older reference on Ningxia-1 - and there it was called the world's first commercial operated global EM spectrum signal monitoring satellite system.

Well, looking at the parts of the satellites shown in the video in the comment above...they doesn't seems to look like your usual EO satellite to me.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #23 on:** 11/13/2019 12:02 pm »

Rui's article:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/11/long-march-6-lofts-five-ningxia-1-satellites/

tehwkd · « **Reply #24 on:** 11/13/2019 12:12 pm »

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 11/13/2019 12:01 pm

Something's fishy about these 5 satellites.....

So apparently someone dug out an older reference on Ningxia-1 - and there it was called the world's first commercial operated global EM spectrum signal monitoring satellite system.

Well, looking at the parts of the satellites shown in the video in the comment above...they doesn't seems to look like your usual EO satellite to me.

Many copies of that story have been deleted from various news and governmental websites but few are still up (as of yesterday)

https://read01.com/KBz06Rd.html

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #25 on:** 11/13/2019 02:09 pm »

Help needed from antennae gurus: What kind of antenna is this?

Satori · « **Reply #26 on:** 11/13/2019 04:21 pm »

From Xinhua,

China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #27 on:** 11/14/2019 03:50 am »

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 11/13/2019 02:09 pm

Help needed from antennae gurus: What kind of antenna is this?

The large circular white hat box might be a microwave radiometer, but I haven't seen that configuration before.

https://earth.esa.int/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-3d