Guangmu (SDGSAT-1) - CZ-6 - Taiyuan - Nov 5, 2021 (02:19 UTC)

[Liss]

A2815/21 NOTAMN
Q) ZHWH/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/3159N10958E018
A) ZHWH B) 2111050212 C) 2111050239
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BUNDED BY:
N321543E1094850-N321142E1101352-N314330E1100101-N314630E1094222, BACK TO START.
ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA.
VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL.
F) GND G) UNL
CREATED: 02 Nov 2021 07:25:00
SOURCE: ZBBBYNYX

A2816/21 NOTAMN
Q) ZHWH/QRTCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/3059N10941E021
A) ZHWH B) 2111050213 C) 2111050245
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
N311908E1093553-N311605E1095429-N303853E1094616-N304153E1092747, BACK TO START.
ALL ACFT ARE FORBIDDEN TO FLY INTO THE TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA.
VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL.
F) GND G) UNL
CREATED: 02 Nov 2021 07:25:00
SOURCE: ZBBBYNYX

[Conexion Espacial]

Reviewing the two published NOTAMs and keeping in mind that most of the time when two NOTAMS come out for the same Chinese launch it is for a three-stage rocket, I would think the candidate would be a CZ-4B.


If I had to bet on a payload, I'd say it would be the Gaofen-11 03, which already has an earlier thread.
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54586.0

[Liss]

Gaofen 11 02 used different structure of NOTAMed areas.

[input~2]

A2816/21 is similar to Yaogan-14 CZ-4B fairing drop zone

[Satori]

Nov 5, Long March 2C

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Turns out that the (successful) launch was of the Long March *6* with Chinese Academy of Sciences’ SDGSAT-1 at 02:19 UTC.

[Conexion Espacial]

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Mission briefing video (credit: CAS)

[Conexion Espacial]

Images of the rocket before launch and the big red screen

[SciNews]

Long March-6 launches SDGSAT-1

[zandr]

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/05/c_1310291981.htm

TAIYUAN, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province.

The satellite, called Guangmu, was launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 10:19 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.

[zubenelgenubi]

A match to the first of these two?

China launch schedule
2021

?? October - CZ-6 (Y8) - TSLC, LC19 - Guangmu-1

2022

March - CZ-6 (Y6) - TSLC, LC16 - Guangmu-1 (CAS Earth Sat)

Changes on October 30

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/05/c_1310291981.htm

TAIYUAN, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province.

The satellite, called Guangmu, was launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 10:19 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.

What does a Guangmu-1 satellite do?

[Alter Sachse]

https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/index.php?topic=19919.msg2296092#msg2296092

Quote:

A Long March-6 launch vehicle launched the SDGSAT-1 satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, China, on 5 November 2021, at 02:19 UTC (10:19 local time). SDGSAT-1 (Sustainable Development Science Satellite 1, also known as 广目地球科学卫星, Guangmu Earth Science Satellite, CASEarth) has three payloads of thermal infrared, low light level and multispectral imager, with 300 km wide data acquisition capability. It can achieve global coverage within 11 days. The satellite aims to detect parameters representing the interaction between human activities and the Earth environment.

[Yiosie]

A match to the first of these two?

China launch schedule
2021

?? October - CZ-6 (Y8) - TSLC, LC19 - Guangmu-1

2022

March - CZ-6 (Y6) - TSLC, LC16 - Guangmu-1 (CAS Earth Sat)

Changes on October 30

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/05/c_1310291981.htm

TAIYUAN, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province.

The satellite, called Guangmu, was launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 10:19 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.

What does a Guangmu-1 satellite do?

Additional confirmation that CASEarth (Guangmu) launched today, and its mission statement:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/SJv0uGltkYw9aclk4sMGuA

Google translate:

At 10:19 a.m. on November 5, 2021, the Long March 6 Yao-8 carrier rocket was launched at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center and successfully delivered the wide-eye earth science satellite (CASEarth) developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, into the scheduled orbit. The launch mission obtained a complete success. As the world's first scientific satellite dedicated to serving the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this satellite provides important data support for sustainable development indicators that characterize the interaction between man and nature.

[Galactic Penguin SST]

A match to the first of these two?

China launch schedule
2021

?? October - CZ-6 (Y8) - TSLC, LC19 - Guangmu-1

2022

March - CZ-6 (Y6) - TSLC, LC16 - Guangmu-1 (CAS Earth Sat)

Changes on October 30

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/05/c_1310291981.htm

TAIYUAN, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province.

The satellite, called Guangmu, was launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 10:19 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.

What does a Guangmu-1 satellite do?

The word literally means “wide-sighted”, IMHO probably referring to its 300 km wide imaging swath.

[input~2]

2021-100A/49387 in 502 x 514 km x 97.49°
2021-100B/49388 in 501 x 514 km x 97.49°

[zandr]

This was not written in the English version.

http://russian.news.cn/2021-11/05/c_1310292526.htm

...
На спутнике установлены три оптические полезные нагрузки, с помощью которых будет осуществляться круглосуточная передача данных космических наблюдений для изучения факторов взаимодействия человека и природы, а также для научных исследований, оценки и мониторинга реализации задач глобального устойчивого развития, заявили в АНК.

Translation

The satellite has three optical payloads, with the help of which the round-the-clock transmission of space observation data will be carried out to study the factors of interaction between man and nature, as well as for scientific research, assessment and monitoring of the implementation of the tasks of global sustainable development, the CAS said.

[Liss]

The original longer English version is at http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/05/c_1310292303.htm

[SciNews]

Technical specifications of SDGSAT-1 from http://www.cbas.ac.cn/en/resources/sdgsat/
"Three payloads of thermal infrared, low-light level, and multi-spectral imager will allow the satellite to obtain high-quality data as well as full-time monitoring capabilities to facilitate the evaluation of SDG indicators representing the interaction between human activities and nature. "
from https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/earth/202111/t20211105_291074.shtml

[Satori]

From Xinhua,

China's Earth science satellite transmits images home.

China's recently launched Earth science satellite has sent back its first remote sensing images, according to its developer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).