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07-September-2006, 01:06 PM
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Xinnuo 2 satellite Launch
A Chinese Chang Zheng (Long March) 3B carrier rocket is scheduled to launch the SinoSat 2 (a.k.a. Xinnuo 2), satellite at the end of October, 2006, from Launch Complex 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.
According to Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration, the Xinnuo 2 large-capacity communications satellite, with an anti-jamming system, will provide direct television broadcasting services to the Chinese mainland, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. On Monday, August 4, the satellite left the production facility after receiving its final checks by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. Xinnuo 2 is based on the Dongfanghong 4 platform and has been designed to work with the ChinaSat 9 satellite in the same orbit, to provide communications services to the Chinese mainland. The ChinaSat 9 satellite is based on the Spacebus 4000 C1 platform and will be positioned at 92.2 degrees east. The Xinnuo 2 satellite, which has taken China six years to develop, is designed to have a lifespan of 15 years, and operated in geosynchronous orbit at 110.5 deg E. China has managed to launch 70 satellites since the 1970's, of which, currently only 20 are still in service today. Read more Latitude: 28.27242° N. Longitude: 102.00353° E
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07-September-2006, 06:30 PM
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that's a great photo of the Chinese site, did you get it from Google-Earth or something ?
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07-September-2006, 07:17 PM
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Hum,
i used nasa worldwind. The image resolution is good enough to just make out the launcher at the end of the canyon.
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13-September-2006, 01:33 AM
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China has launched the Zhongxing-22A telecommunications satellite atop a Long March-3A rocket carrier from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, at 00:02 on Wednesday.
The Xi'an Satellite Monitoring and Controlling Centre reported that Zhongxing-22A successfully entered onto the preset orbit twenty-five minutes later. Zhongxing-22A is an earth-synchronous telecommunications satellite designed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Technology Group Company. The satellite will provide direct television broadcasting services for the China Telecommunication Broadcast Satellite Company under the China Telecommunications Satellite Group Company. The satellite has been designed to work for eight years. The satellite will orbit above the Equator, at 98 degrees east longitude, with a perigee of 207 kilometres and an apogee of 42,000 kilometres.
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13-September-2006, 12:01 PM
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Zhongxing-22A
TLE Data
Code:
Zhongxing-22A 1 29399U 06038B 06255.94601860 -.00000396 53883-6 00000+0 0 16 2 29399 025.3360 221.7175 7616398 180.0168 179.8399 01.90791654 00
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01-November-2006, 12:12 AM
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The Shijian 8 orbiter satellite that as launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwest China desert on September. 9th, 2006, is predicted to re-enter the earths atmosphere on the 1st November @ 23:22 GMT ±16 Hours.
Predicted re-entry location 24.9° S, 353.3° E TLE Data Code:
SJ-8 1 29385U 06035A 06302.63837863 .01606559 84723-5 25149-3 0 2039 2 29385 062.9739 204.4302 0058754 145.8482 214.6602 16.27990425 8050 1 29385U 06035A 06302.51443287 .01518287 84668-5 24428-3 0 2025 2 29385 062.9739 204.9351 0060021 146.1622 207.9879 16.27543294 8025 1 29385U 06035A 06302.45407366 .01606945 84580-5 26196-3 0 2011 2 29385 062.9761 205.1783 0060341 146.2633 214.2464 16.27373938 8027 1 29385U 06035A 06302.33116980 .01513012 84546-5 25357-3 0 2008 2 29385 062.9757 205.6791 0061294 146.1643 214.3715 16.26972818 8003 1 29385U 06035A 06302.20822794 .01369562 84514-5 23414-3 0 1994 2 29385 062.9758 206.1792 0062941 146.6479 213.8674 16.26525609 7989
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17-November-2006, 06:40 AM
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It is rumored that Xinnuo 2 not positioned at 92.2 degrees east successfully. The rocket was successful, but the satellite seems to have some problems.
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20-November-2006, 04:27 PM
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Hum,
the word on the street says that the Chinese SinoSat-2 communications and broadcast satellite failed to unfold its main solar panel. Mission controllers discovered on November 7 that the satellite did not respond to ground signals. The lack of power now means that there is little chance of recovering the satellite.
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