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We were precise up to Mars, still hanging their. If you could do Mars, no point id unreachable. Not even satellite or space station.
BTW you guys ever tried Mars.
Congrats. But you do realize that the Indian Mars mission was just a probe right? There is no Indian space station or spacelab because there is no Indian manned space programme.

Stop the attempt at a d*ck-measuring contest between the Chinese and Indian space programs. Different objectives, different technological capabilities. Such a comparison doesn't flatter India in any way.

Whether by number of successful launches, number of satellites in orbit, number of of manned space missions or even the capabilities of launch vehicles; India comes far behind.
 

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Congrats. But you do realize that the Indian Mars mission was just a probe right? There is no Indian space station or spacelab because there is no Indian manned space programme.

Stop the attempt at a d*ck-measuring contest between the Chinese and Indian space programs. Different objectives, different technological capabilities. Such a comparison doesn't flatter India in any way.

Whether by number of successful launches, number of satellites in orbit, number of of manned space missions or even the capabilities of launch vehicles; India comes far behind.
why not? I should have such comparison all the time, otherwise what is the point of staying here.
 

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at the first glimpse of the title, I thought Chinese rockets failed, that is a big news. then after I finish the whole thread, I have to say that India's obsession with China is beyond imagination.

so my question to indian members, what happens to the first stage of indian rocket if it doesn't fall to earth?
 

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at the first glimpse of the title, I thought Chinese rockets failed, that is a big news. then after I finish the whole thread, I have to say that India's obsession with China is beyond imagination.

so my question to indian members, what happens to the first stage of indian rocket if it doesn't fall to earth?
nah....actually unlike u ,we are not used to the scenario where rocket parts might fall over ur head :bplease::bplease:......Do u know what actually scare me....that suddenly Chinese trolls account become inactive coincides with another such news...
 

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nah....actually unlike u ,we are not used to the scenario where rocket parts might fall over ur head :bplease::bplease:......Do u know what actually scare me....that suddenly Chinese trolls account become inactive coincides with another such news...
Did any parts of this rocket actually "fall on someone's head"? @shiphone has already outlined the precautions taken every time there's a space launch or ballistic missile test in China.

There are several prolific inland space launch centers throughout the world. It's nothing new.

But as I said before, the Indian fanboys on this thread have no interest in technical knowledge or analysis, but mudslinging to salve their inferiority complex vis-a-vis China..
 

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China successfully launches military triplet YG-30


SPACE


BY
HENRI KENHMANN

30 SEPTEMBER 2017

http://www.eastpendulum.com/la-chine-lance-avec-succes-le-triplet-militaire-yg-30


Many called it the "Come-back" mission not to be missed after a black series of the Chinese aerospace sector - first an anomaly of the CZ-3B launcher that put the ChinaSat-9A communication satellite into an orbit and the total failure of the second qualification flight of the new heavy - lift CZ-5 , resulting in the loss of the 7,500 kg SJ-18 geostationary satellite - why all the pressure was on the shoulders of the CZ-2C rocket teams, this Friday, September 29, during the launch mission to Xichang to place a mysterious charge in LEO orbit, later named the YG-30 Group 01 satellites, a triplet of small satellites belonging to the Chinese army priori.

And the old CZ-2C launcher, the civil twin of the Chinese intercontinental missile DF-5, which first flew 35 years ago in September 1982, was not lacking at this crucial moment and allowed Chinese to succeed, who nevertheless succeeded practically all that they undertake from the first blow in recent years.

It is therefore not surprising to see the CALT Institute, one of the leading Chinese rocket manufacturers and also the CZ-2C, titled its article after the success of the launch: "Success, Our Faith".



The start
Designed by the Chinese Academy of Casting Technology (CALT), a subsidiary of the Chinese aerospace group CASC, the CZ-2C is a two-stage liquid propellant launcher specializing in low-orbit (LEO) launches and heliosynchronous orbit (SSO).

It is an "old" launcher that is 43.72 meters high and 245 tonnes on take-off, capable of placing up to 3,300 kg in circular LEO orbit 300 km × 29 ° from the Xichang Space Center (XSLC).

13 satellites with return capsules, Iridium satellites, as well as several military and experimental satellites have already been placed in orbit thanks to the CZ-2C, which now totals 41 successes on 42 missions.

The only failure of the launcher dates from August 18, 2011 in the launch of the military satellite SJ-11-04 due to a mechanical failure of the 2nd floor.

The rocket is also used as a carrier for various military vehicles such as the DF-ZF hypersonic glider . This is not surprising in itself when it is known to be derived directly from the Chinese ICFM missile DF-5.

The launch of the YG-30 Group 01 triplet took place on Friday 29th September at around 12:21 local time, at XSLC firing point No. 3. This is the first time in 13 years that the rocket has taken off at the XSLC center, so that the current teams of the center are very unfamiliar with the CZ-2C.

To this end, CALT teams traveled five times to the XSLC to coordinate integration activities with local teams.

The CZ-2C is the only launcher that has been launched since the three Chinese space centers TSLC, JSLC and XSLC (but not yet at WSLC, the new and 4th Chinese space center on Hainan Island).


CZ-2C take-off at Xichang Space Center (Photo: CASC)





For its first triple launch, the designers of CZ-2C have designed a new bracket under the cover. This new configuration will integrate in plan "V4.0" that the institute CALT has planned to extend the already long career of the rocket.

The goal is to further reduce the preparation cycle of CZ-2C and make it a reliable, responsive and very cheap vehicle for small satellites, especially those that are too large for new solid propellers such as the CZ- 11 and KZ-1A .

Content of the geographic location of the XSLC center that enters the high wind season at high altitudes, engineers have also reprogrammed the CNG system to address this problem, plus others that come from the higher humidity in a very high region stormy.

A single message to air navigators was created to signal a fallout zone located in the very center of the very mountainous Guizhou province.

A2966 / 17
Q) ZPKM / QRTCA / IV / BO / W / 000/999 / 2647N10713E015
A) ZPKM B) 1709290413 C) 1709290435
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED bounded BY:
N263510E1072250-N264301E1065708-N265820E1070259-N265028E1072844
BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL.
F) GND G) UNL



The fallout zone announced by NOTAM for this launch (Images: East Pendulum)
It should be noted that one of the Chinese space monitoring and control vessels, Yuan Wang 3 , was deployed in the Pacific Ocean near Fiji and New Caledonia during this launch mission.

This exit comes after a long period of MLU work carried out at this building of over 20,000 tons.




The mysterious triplet YG-30 Group 01
The mystery of the triplet YG-30 Group 01 (遥感 三十 号 01 组) comes not only from the little information communicated about it, but also to its name.

Indeed, although we know full well that the names YG, Yao Gan which means "Remote sensing" in Chinese, are only nicknames and are in no case their true internal names, like the "Cosmos" satellites of Russia, but the name YG-30 had in fact already been used once, more recently, in May 2016 to designate a military optical reconnaissance satellite, known as NORAD 41473.

And the low circular orbit of the three YG-30 Group 01 satellites, 600 km × 600 km × 35 °, does not correspond to that of the YG-30 of May last year. They therefore have no apparent link.

As for its role, the official communiqué simply indicates that it is a constellation to "study the electromagnetic environment of space".

The synthetic image displayed on the screen of the BACC control center in Beijing shows three identical satellites, pointing its sensors towards the ground and having a pair of solar panels.


The first analyzes based on this image and the low circular orbit inclined at 35 ° suggest that it is an ELINT constellation that is mainly addressed to the wide area of the East China Sea to the sea ( YG-9 , YG-16 , YG-17 , YG-20 and YG-25) , launched between 2010 and 2014 , which are in orbits 1,100 km × 1,100 km × 63 °.

According to a letter sent by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to its subsidiary Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites , which is responsible for the YG-30 Group 01 project, the development would have lasted three years for these satellites of "vital" importance.

It is also known that the satellites arrived at the XSLC for integration on 21 August, 39 days before launch.

Based on the CZ-2C launcher's capability from the XSLC center and the YG-30 constellation Group 01 orbit, the three Chinese satellites weigh less than 3,000 kg, less than one tonne each.


The carrying capacity of the CZ-2C rocket launched from the XSLC space center (Image: CASC)

The first TLEs indicate four objects placed in orbit, including the second stage of the CZ-2C launcher (2017-058D).

2017-058A
1 42945U 17058A 17272.83117286 -.00000027 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9999
2 42945 35.0025 44.8859 0005827 227.3099 132.7078 14.90411403 109

2017-058B
1 42946U 17058B 17272.76419240 -.00000027 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9997
2 42946 35.0001 45.2854 0005789 233.1729 126.8442 14.90397432 98

2017-058C
1 42947U 17058C 17272.83120765 -.00000027 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9997
2 42947 35.0023 44.8852 0005579 229.0303 130.9923 14.90337793 99

2017-058D
1 42948U 17058D 17272.83556616 -.00000023 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9992
2 42948 34.9300 44.8317 0067998 257.5640 101.7742 14.79578176 77

Historical statistics
This launch is the 9ᵉ Chinese space launch in 2017, the 42ᵉ for the CZ-2C launcher, and the 251ᵉ for the Long March launch vehicle family.

For the time being, the Long Marche rockets of the CASC group total 240 successes and 11 failures, a success rate of 95.62%.

Here is the tracking table of all the Chinese space launches since the first one in 1970, including those that are not carried out by the Long March launchers -


Chinese Space Launch Tracking Chart - Date: 2017-09-29

Henri K.
 

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Did any parts of this rocket actually "fall on someone's head"? @shiphone has already outlined the precautions taken every time there's a space launch or ballistic missile test in China.

There are several prolific inland space launch centers throughout the world. It's nothing new.

But as I said before, the Indian fanboys on this thread have no interest in technical knowledge or analysis, but mudslinging to salve their inferiority complex vis-a-vis China..
What precautions can you take? Are you going to evacuate half the country every time you launch a rocket? Your boosters fall as far away as Myanmar so there is no precaution you can take except to launch it over the ocean like you should have done for the last 20 years.

https://www.sciencealert.com/it-loo...rocket-crash-landed-next-to-a-myanmar-village
 

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Did any parts of this rocket actually "fall on someone's head"? @shiphone has already outlined the precautions taken every time there's a space launch or ballistic missile test in China.

There are several prolific inland space launch centers throughout the world. It's nothing new.

But as I said before, the Indian fanboys on this thread have no interest in technical knowledge or analysis, but mudslinging to salve their inferiority complex vis-a-vis China..
The margin is very small...anything bad happens it would cost many life...

but as mnay of us here assume that CCP is very relax about the possibility of loss of life as they can cover up stuffs ,like they did with one of the worst disaster with long match rocket in mid 90's.

The point u shows as adv and disadv of inland center , most of us would agree that sending tracing ship is less costlier than relocating population (unless u only give just warning , and left ppl ton their own for relocation).
 

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Ignore them mate. @Armand2REP and @sayareakd have demonstrated repeatedly that they are not interested in the technical analysis behind the Chinese Space Programme or really any thing related to China.

They'd rather mock Chinese technology their own country cannot produce with half-baked theories and childish taunts.
We are always ready, but Chinese always tried to bring in superiority complex.....,
Congrats. But you do realize that the Indian Mars mission was just a probe right? There is no Indian space station or spacelab because there is no Indian manned space programme.

Stop the attempt at a d*ck-measuring contest between the Chinese and Indian space programs. Different objectives, different technological capabilities. Such a comparison doesn't flatter India in any way.

Whether by number of successful launches, number of satellites in orbit, number of of manned space missions or even the capabilities of launch vehicles; India comes far behind.
Try sending outside first, then we will see. Btw how many satellites have you launched in one go; when you are speaking of satellites?
 

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at the first glimpse of the title, I thought Chinese rockets failed, that is a big news. then after I finish the whole thread, I have to say that India's obsession with China is beyond imagination.

so my question to indian members, what happens to the first stage of indian rocket if it doesn't fall to earth?
If you dont understand title, cant help, it says "parts".

First stage fell in sea. In every launch.
 

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What precautions can you take? Are you going to evacuate half the country every time you launch a rocket? Your boosters fall as far away as Myanmar so there is no precaution you can take except to launch it over the ocean like you should have done for the last 20 years.

https://www.sciencealert.com/it-loo...rocket-crash-landed-next-to-a-myanmar-village
You're very adept at ignoring information that contradicts your opinion.

Evacuate half the country? no.

any rocket launch on three China Inland launching centers/sites will set-up the No fly zone and Drop zone for the 1st stage, booster and fairing...



the GTO missions from XiChang Lanching Center might be most complicated and effecting more people. usually around 100,000-200,000 in the drop-zone people would be evacuated for 4-6 hours... they will be organized to enter the shelter with resting, catering and entertaiment(Movie normally) . the office of Civial Air Defence of local government will also take part in the operation. in the day time evacuation operation, three times of air-defense warning will be alarmed--first for early warning , second for action alarm and last one for clear...
The Drop Zone identified for the 29.09.2017 launch from Xichang. (Its not half the country).

The fallout zone announced by NOTAM for this launch (Images: East Pendulum)


Determining where first stage booster separate and in which area they will land is done on a regular basis Chief. There is no magic to it. Just rocket science.

The Russian space agency does the same for inland launches. Including all of the manned space launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. An area where debris is most likely to fall is pre-warned, evacuated and rocket debris is collected by authorities later.
 
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You're very adept at ignoring information that contradicts your opinion.

Evacuate half the country? no.



The Drop Zone identified for the 29.09.2017 launch from Xichang. (Its not half the country).

The fallout zone announced by NOTAM for this launch (Images: East Pendulum)


Determining where first stage booster separate and in which area they will land is done on a regular basis Chief. There is no magic to it. Just rocket science.

The Russian space agency does the same for inland launches. Including all of the manned space launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. An area where debris is most likely to fall is pre-warned, evacuated and rocket debris is collected by authorities later.
You conveniently ignored my post about your boosters dropping in populated areas of Myanmar. If you can't keep it out of other countries you certainly can't control your "drop zone."
 

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I just remembered old Hindi song

"Jaate the Japan pahunch gaye Cheen samajh gaye na" :rofl::rofl::rofl:
 

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3 more Yaogan series surveillance satellites launched on another Long March 2C rocket.



Another trio of Yaogan military satellites launched by China

December 28, 2017 Stephen Clark


A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Xichang space base at 1944 GMT (2:44 p.m. EST) Monday. Credit: Xinhua
Three more Yaogan satellites successfully lifted off Monday from the Xichang space center in southwestern China, joining two similar triplets launched earlier this year for the Chinese military.

The trio launched at 1944 GMT (2:44 p.m. EST) Monday aboard a Long March 2C rocket from the military-run Xichang rocket base in Sichuan province, according to China’s state-owned Xinhua news agency.

Liftoff occurred at 3:44 a.m. Beijing time Tuesday.

The two-stage Long March 2C booster flew east-southeast from Xichang and placed the three Yaogan satellites into an orbit around 370 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth at a tilt of 35 degrees to the equator.

China did not announce the launch in advance, keeping with the country’s usual policy of not disclosing the launch schedule for military satellites.

Xinhua reported the third batch of Yaogan 30 satellites will “conduct electromagnetic environmental probes and other experiments.”

The Yaogan 30-03 satellites launched Monday join two other triplets launched into the same type of orbit Sept. 29 and Nov. 24. The groups were built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Micro-satellite Innovation.

The Yaogan series of satellites are believed to be operated by the Chinese military for intelligence-gathering purposes.

Some analysts suggested the nine Yaogan 30-01, 30-02 and 30-03 satellites launched over the last three months could be testing new electronic eavesdropping equipment or helping the Chinese military track U.S. and other foreign naval deployments.

China’s military has another satellite named Yaogan 30, but it is in polar orbit and believed to be a high-resolution imaging spacecraft.

Monday’s launch marked the 18th Chinese space launch attempt of the year. Seventeen of the missions successfully reached orbit.

All tracked by the Yuan Wang 6

 

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PART OF A ROCKET CRASHES IN CHINA. Chinaman: oh sh!t, its a bird, its ufo...no shit it is made in china first phase of the rocket :scared2:
YOUTUBE link

Somebody post this to that mujra cheerleading queen windjammer in that shi#y forum.
 
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"Cold" launch of a CZ 11 rocket carrying 6 satellites. Interesting capability military wise:

http://www.eastpendulum.com/6-satellites-chinois-et-canadien-mis-en-orbite-par-le-lanceur-cz-11

6 Chinese and Canadian satellites put into orbit by CZ-11 launcher

The Jiuquan Space Center (JSLC) yesterday completed its 100th civilian launch, allowing the new Chinese CZ-11 launcher from the Long March family to put into orbit six satellites, including one Canadian.

The takeoff, carried out from a Tractor-Erector-Launcher car on a simplified shooting step, took place this Friday 19 January at 12:12 Beijing time. This is the third flight of CZ-11, which has made a flawless run so far since its maiden flight in September 2015.

Among the six passengers of this fourth Chinese space launch in 2018 are two video satellites 07 and 08 of the Jilin-1commercial observation constellation , two CubeSat 6U from the Tianyi Private Institute known as XJNA ( Xiao Jiang New Area ) and QTT-1, as well as a Huai'an ZHOU En Lai CubeSat 2U designed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology and middle school students from Jiangsu Province, and Kepler Communication's CubeSat 3U Canadian KIPP .



The third flight of the CZ-11 launcher
Developed by CASC Group's Chinese Casting Technology Academy (CALT), the CZ-11 is the only solid propellant rocket in the Long March launchers family. It is a four-stage launcher, all running on solid propellant, which measures 20.8 meters long, 2 meters in diameter and weighs about 58 tons with a take-off thrust of 120



The program, which is part of the new generation Chinese launchers, started development in 2012 and achieved its inaugural flight on September 25, 2015 by placing 4 satellites in SSO orbit.

Like its main competitors , CASIC's Kuaizhou rockets , CASC's CZ-11 has been designed to provide a means of rapid access to space and address the small satellite segment of the domestic and international market, with a capacity of 400 kg in a 700-kilometer SSO orbit. The preparation of CZ-11 before its launches is particularly short - in 24 hours the rocket could be ready and in flight according to its designers.

But this very short period of preparation remains theoretical for the moment and has not yet had the opportunity to demonstrate it. For this launch, for example, the two main satellites Jilin-1-07 and -08 left their factory on January 1st and the integration was completed on the 13th, for a launch on the 19th. So we see a much shorter duration compared to a conventional launcher liquid propellant, but it is still far from the account of 24 hours announced.

Unlike most civilian rockets that launch from a firing point, the CZ-11 takes off from a TEL (Tractor-Erector-Launcher) as a ballistic missile. It is perhaps for this reason that the photos of his first two launches in 2015 and 2016 are unveiled only recently, on the occasion of this third flight.


The CZ-11 Y3 launcher


The integration of satellites to the launcher


The CZ-11 is ejected outside its launch tube by a gas generator


According to a statement issued by the CASC group , the CALT Institute has made several improvements to the launcher to increase its carrying capacity by around 20%. One of them consists of a completely revisited cap made of carbon-carbon composite, with a new coating laid by automated machines that can significantly reduce its thickness.

A new satellite separation support has also been developed at the request of customers, with one exception, the Canadian KIPP satellite, which has used its own separation system provided by the Dutch company SLS.

The Chinese authorities have issued two messages to aircrew (NOTAM) to report a fallout area of the launcher debris. It is located about 320 km from the firing point and could correspond to the drop zone for the first floor or the headdress.

A0223 / 18
Q) ZLHW / QRTCA / IV / BO / W / 000/999 / 3809N09931E034
A) ZLHW B) 1801190407 C) 1801190425
E) A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED BOUNDED BY:
N373645E0994253-N374351E0990304-N384153E0991924-N383442E0995943
BACK TO START. VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL
F) GND G) UNL

A0240 / 18
Q) ZLHW / QARLC / IV / NBO / E /
000/999 / A) ZLHW B) 1801190402 C) 1801190427
E) THE FLOW SEGMENTS OF ATS RTE CLSD:
1. W191: MULRU - RUSAT.
2. B215: NOGEX - OMGUP.


NOTAMs for the 3rd flight of CZ-11 (Image: East Pendulum)

It should be noted that the CZ-11 launcher did not fly by relying on an umbilical tower as for the other classic Long March rockets, because of its concept called "rapid reaction" originally from the middle military and its particular mode of preparation.

For this purpose, the JSLC Space Center constructed two new, very simplified firing points, located respectively 4.3 and 6 km from the main launch site, each with concrete ground and lightning arresters. One for the CASC CZ-11 and the other for the Kuaizhou CASIC launchers.


The site of Jiuquan Space Center and the two firing steps by extension

Jilin-1 video satellites and the four CubeSats
The main passengers of this CZ-11 flight are the two satellites Jilin-1-07 and Jilin-1-08, both of which are part of the Jilin-1 commercial ground-based observation constellation, which will be networked with the 8 first satellites put into orbit between 2015 and 2017.

Jilin-1-07 is also called "Deqing 1", Deqing being a destrict of Zhejiang Province, while Jilin-1-08 also has another name called "Silviculture 2". The two optical observation satellites weigh 416 kg together and they have cameras with a maximum resolution of 0.92 meters with a swath of 19 km. Their theoretical life is more than 3 years according to the manufacturer Chang Guang Satellite Technology.


The Jilin-1-07 satellite (Deqing 1)
After these two satellites as main payloads come four nano-satellites, including two CubeSats 6U, a 3U and a 2U.

The two 6U XJNA and QTT-1 satellites are all designed by the Tianyi Institute (天 仪 研究院), a private satellite manufacturer in China, which weighs in at 8kg each. XJNA, also called Xiaoxiang-2 , ships the instruments for 4 different experiments -

  1. Optical fiber remote sensing, developed by Beijing Information Science & Technology University
  2. Software radio trials in space, co-developed with a subsidiary of the CALT Institute
  3. The amateur radio tests, conducted by Hunan Radio Association which brings together a group of radio amateurs
  4. Optical image stabilization tests, co-developed with Xi'an Jiaotong University
The QTT-1, meanwhile, was commissioned by the company Quan Tu Tong (全 图 通 位置 网络 限 有限公司), specializing in geolocation services based on the Chinese navigation system Beidou. The experimental nano-satellite includes an integrated navigation system, a small commercial camera, an AIS transponder for ships and a radio test bench for amateurs. Quan Tu Tong plans to offer its satellite "self-service" so that users can exploit it to other types of tests in orbit.

Note that the Tianyi Institute had signed a launch contract with the CALT Institute for 30 of its satellites, XJNA and QTT-1 are therefore parties.

The fifth passenger of the CZ-11 flight is still a Chinese nano-satellite named after former Chinese premier ZHOU En Lai and his birthplace Huai'an. Designed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology, with the participation of college and high school students from Jiangsu Province, the CubeSat 2U weighing 2.4 kg will be used to conduct space experiments for young people, and especially test a desorbitalization device.

This is a "sail" made of double-sided aluminized polyimide film, which measures approximately 1.2 m² and weighs 300 g. When folded it is only Ø 70 mm × 60 mm.

The sixth and final passenger comes from a Canadian startup, Kepler Communications, which wants to commercialize inter-satellite communication services and a network of connected objects (IoT) in the maritime, agricultural and transportation sectors. The satellite is team including a software radio.

For the time being NORAD has listed 10 objects in orbit, the satellites should have been placed in an orbit of 611 km x 627 km x 86.69 °.

2018-008A
1 43155U 18008A 18020.21592346 -.00000065 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9999
2 43155 97.5385 97.1182 0016649 294.4594 85.3923 15.10300244 154

2018-008B
1 43156U 18008B 18020.16323142 -.00000064 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9999
2 43156 97.5467 97.0633 0013187 292.6507 158.8889 15.09742579 149

2018-008C
1 43157U 18008C 18020.16323850 -.00000064 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9996
2 43157 97.5469 97.0638 0014217 283.6051 167.0643 15.09476038 140

2018-008D
1 43158U 18008D 18020.16386288 -.00000064 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9991
2 43158 97.5447 97.0564 0012715 296.3020 157.7086 15.09471992 122

2018-008E
1 43159U 18008E 18020.29367387 -.00000064 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9995
2 43159 97.5400 97.1922 0013256 281.8266 156.6536 15.09340953 156

2018-008F
1 43160U 18008F 18020.16334416 -.00000064 00000-0 00000 + 0 0 9990
2 43160 97.5401 97.0661 0012963 283.4685 167.2901 15.09340706 133

2018-008G
1 43161U 18008G 18020.20084029 .00008866 00000-0 16582-2 0 9990
2 43161 98.4870 97.0901 0377848 196.1307 162.7903 14.28059101 158

2018-008K
1 43164U 18008K 18019.36000805 .00000474 00000-0 10000-3 0 9995
2 43164 98.4846 96.2624 0377285 198.6156 160.0679 14.28033224 26



Historical statistics
Statistically, this launch of CZ-11 is the 4ᵉ Chinese space launch in 2018, the 3ᵉ for the CZ-11 launcher, and the 264ᵉ for the Long March launchers family.

For now, the Long March rockets of the CASC group have 253 successes and 11 failures, a success rate of 95.83%.

This is the tracking chart of all Chinese space launches since the first of 1970, including those not performed by Long March launchers, as well as the number of launches for each of the 4 Chinese space centers -


The number of launches per year for the 4 Chinese space centers (Image: East Pendulum)
 

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