Tianhui-5A&B - CZ-6A - Taiyuan - October 31, 2023 (22:50 UTC)

• Tianhui-5A&B - CZ-6A - Taiyuan - October 31, 2023 (22:50 UTC) by mikezang on 23 Oct, 2023 16:49
• This is for CZ-6A from Taiyuan.
• #1 by mikezang on 26 Oct, 2023 01:56
• The NOTAM for CZ-4C from Taiyuan.
• #2 by Galactic Penguin SST on 26 Oct, 2023 18:19
• IMHO this (red zone) is one and the same launch as the other one (CZ-4C, or 4B - blue zone) you posted later for NET late October 31 UTC - there's some weird shift in the coordinates but the two zones seems to match, and the CZ-4 series one's time does fall within the warning times of this one, with the wedge shape coming from Flight Information Region boundaries.
  
  Thoughts?

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• #3 by Liss on 27 Oct, 2023 08:02
• It seems for me this is the same CZ-6A as in https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59752.0
• #4 by mikezang on 28 Oct, 2023 11:39
• Thhe NOTAM for CZ-6A from Taiyuan.
• #5 by Galactic Penguin SST on 28 Oct, 2023 12:08
• Quote from: mikezang on 28 Oct, 2023 11:39

  Thhe NOTAM for CZ-6A from Taiyuan.
  

  The drop zones looks much more like CZ-4 series to me than CZ-6A - I would expect the northern one in Hubei to be even up north (for CZ-6A's SRBs) like in the last CZ-6A launch.
• #6 by Alter Sachse on 28 Oct, 2023 13:24
• Chinese Wikipedia suspects as one of the payloads Hai Yang 2E.
• #7 by Alter Sachse on 28 Oct, 2023 13:52
• https://space.oscar.wmo.int/satellites/view/hy_2e
  
  SSO 973 km and
  06:00 equator crossing results in a launch time of 22:57 UTC.
• #8 by Satori on 31 Oct, 2023 23:22
• Tianhui-5 launched by CZ-6A (Y4) at 2250UTC
• #9 by Galactic Penguin SST on 01 Nov, 2023 00:37
• Should have realised that there is a chance of the SRBs drop zone NOTAM being omitted together (if it falls somewhere outside of air routes). Oh well.
  
  https://twitter.com/cosmic_penguin/status/1719522911156060371
  
  https://twitter.com/cosmic_penguin/status/1719525924792857078

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• #10 by Galactic Penguin SST on 01 Nov, 2023 02:05
• Launch as seen in Yinchuan, Ningxia:
  
  Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4963178847667870
  
  https://twitter.com/cosmic_penguin/status/1719550626009608264
• #11 by Steven Pietrobon on 01 Nov, 2023 04:56
• Scinews video.
  
  
• #12 by FutureSpaceTourist on 01 Nov, 2023 05:33
• https://twitter.com/tskelso/status/1719596570189156830
  
  

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  CelesTrak has GP data for 3 objects from the launch (2023-168) of Tianhui-5 atop a Long March-6 rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Oct 31 at 2250 UTC: english.news.cn/20231101/f48e8…. Data for the launch can be found at: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2023-168

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• #13 by Liss on 01 Nov, 2023 07:39
• It seems for me there are two satellites there.
• #14 by Alter Sachse on 01 Nov, 2023 11:41
• Quote from: Liss on 01 Nov, 2023 07:39

  It seems for me there are two satellites there.
  

  2 stars on the patch.
• #15 by Galactic Penguin SST on 01 Nov, 2023 15:40
• Quote from: Liss on 01 Nov, 2023 07:39

  It seems for me there are two satellites there.
  

  
  And indeed it is:
  https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1719748699168067701
• #16 by Steven Pietrobon on 02 Nov, 2023 03:48
• Tianhui 6 was also two satellites.
  
  https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tianhui-6.htm
• #17 by GELORD on 02 Nov, 2023 07:24
• Tianhui-5 are not one but two satellites Tianhui 5 01/02 

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• #18 by FutureSpaceTourist on 03 Nov, 2023 12:36
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  👀 This is incredible. @mickeywzx captured some spectacular footage of the Long March 6A Y4 launch.
  Solid boosters separation -> fairing separation -> 1st stage separation -> 1st stage fuel dumping
  Original post weibo.com/1919207191/496…

  
  https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1720433480658813182
  
  

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  2nd part
• #19 by FutureSpaceTourist on 04 Nov, 2023 13:45
• https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1720535415655121392
  
  

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  The solid boosters of Long March 6A Y4 landed in the cropland in Ji County of Shanxi Province, in case you wonder.
  It's solid, not hypergolic
  Video found on Douyin
• #20 by mikezang on 07 Nov, 2023 10:50

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