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#80
by
beidou
on 11 Jul, 2013 20:31
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#81
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:10
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LOTS of new photos of WSLC available since my last post (thanks to member
hccccf at the 9ifly Chinese spaceflight and aviation forum for collecting them from various sources!). First up is a panorama of the launch center from the top of the pad 1 service tower:
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#82
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:14
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Various photos from the construction site:
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#83
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:16
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#84
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:19
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From another (local) member at the forum, this is how the roads and bridges around the spaceport looks like (the bridge crosses through Wenchang port):
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#85
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:26
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The service towers at both pads and the twin vertical integration bays are now almost complete. The launch site looks more and more like a Chinese version of Kourou......
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#86
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:27
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WSLC_92 shows the nearby radar tracking station.
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#87
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:31
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And here's the inside of the rocket processing facilities.
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#88
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 28 Oct, 2013 13:36
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Last but not least, here's the current construction progress of the various pads, VIFs, LCCs, spacecraft processing facilities and even the future downrange tracking station at the Paracel Islands (WSLC_107).
If you want an overview of how WSLC looks like today, check out the location (19 deg. 38' N, 110 deg. 57' E) in Google Earth and use the historical imagery function to find satellite imagery taken on July 14 of this year!
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#89
by
fatjohn1408
on 12 Nov, 2013 12:25
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My guess is that Hainan could eventually replace XiChang.
China's GTO launchers are busy enough now launching that nation's own navsats, weathersats, comsats, etc. - and the launch rates are increasing. XiChang has proven to be a risky place from which to conduct launches. Some people believe that the world's worst space disaster happened there in 1996 when a Long March slammed into a populated village. China officially reported that dozens of civilians were killed or injured in the accident, but payload personnel who saw the scene thought that the toll must have been higher.
- Ed Kyle
Well, that brings the minimum death toll to 24 (dozen
s) even by official reportings. Which disaster would have been worse than that?
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#90
by
Kryten
on 12 Nov, 2013 13:21
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The Nedelin incident killed at least 70 people, but it was a missile test, so it being a 'space disaster' is pretty arguable.
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#91
by
Satori
on 06 May, 2014 16:29
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#92
by
ximig
on 07 May, 2014 07:13
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#93
by
heinkel174
on 08 May, 2014 05:47
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Well, that brings the minimum death toll to 24 (dozens) even by official reportings. Which disaster would have been worse than that?
The official figure is 6 dead and 57 injured. There’s an excellent article on Space Review discussing the accident.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2323/1
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#94
by
luhai167
on 09 May, 2014 09:39
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#95
by
JimO
on 10 May, 2014 00:32
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The official figure is 6 dead and 57 injured. ...
While at Baikonur in 1996 on a launch client inspection I talked with an American who was at the explosion and his impression was of massive destruction of non-evacuated areas.
Re 'worst', don't overlook 50 dead at Plesetsk in 1980. The argument of the blame for it is, unbelievably, still going on.
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#96
by
beidou
on 14 Jul, 2014 16:06
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#97
by
russianhalo117
on 14 Jul, 2014 16:10
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Last but not least, here's the current construction progress of the various pads, VIFs, LCCs, spacecraft processing facilities and even the future downrange tracking station at the Paracel Islands (WSLC_107).
If you want an overview of how WSLC looks like today, check out the location (19 deg. 38' N, 110 deg. 57' E) in Google Earth and use the historical imagery function to find satellite imagery taken on July 14 of this year!
Do we have any updated pictures for WSLC complexes??
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#98
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 16 Jul, 2014 08:34
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Last but not least, here's the current construction progress of the various pads, VIFs, LCCs, spacecraft processing facilities and even the future downrange tracking station at the Paracel Islands (WSLC_107).
If you want an overview of how WSLC looks like today, check out the location (19 deg. 38' N, 110 deg. 57' E) in Google Earth and use the historical imagery function to find satellite imagery taken on July 14 of this year!
Do we have any updated pictures for WSLC complexes??
There are lots of them since last time and updates on ground infrastructure info too - I was going to make an update post for the past few months but never quite find enough power to do so. Let me see what I can do today....
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#99
by
Kryten
on 24 Jul, 2014 00:49
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Do we have any reports on damage, if any, from typhoon Rammasun?
