CosmicPenguin

@CosmicPenguin@spacey.space

Astronomy & spaceflight weeb penguin. In a relationship w/ Space Shuttle Discovery. Space Launch System & Orion did nothing wrong. Chinese spaceflight news hunter.

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CosmicPenguin, to random Chinese

Sorry to everyone following my account - I did not have time during my 3 weeks trip to Japan mid-late August to manually repost my Chinese spaceflight thread posts to here from Twitter(X), and I'm still readjusting back-to-normal.

But rest assured that the missing posts will be moved to here soon!

CosmicPenguin, to random Chinese

Chinese Spaceflight of 3rd Quarter 2023, A Thread - Confusing Landscapes, Dazzling Power Projection, Interesting Times:

CosmicPenguin,

That's it, Big Red Screen (TM) for launch success:

CosmicPenguin,

Photos - this marks both the 50th LM-4C (48 successes) and 100th LM-4 series (97 successes) launches.

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CosmicPenguin,

The Chinese CMA do aim for really broad weather satellites coverage - while NOAA & EUMETSAT needs to cooperate to have the main SSO slots ("Morning" & "Afternoon") covered, the Chinese have satellites in both (3C>3F, 3D), plus in a "Dawn/Dusk" SSO (3E) AND a dedicated LEO precipitation sat (3G).

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CosmicPenguin,

100 Long March 4s:

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CosmicPenguin,

This still seems like quite a complicated rocket for Delta II class capabilities these days TBH:

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FY-3F, full list of the Chinese Feng Yun meteorology satellites and Big Red Screen (TM):

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Mission logo:

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Short launch video:

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Another one:

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Stacking of LM-4C on the pad:

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Unboxing:

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CosmicPenguin,

LMAO:
https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1686962669058932736

CosmicPenguin,

The LM-2C/D/4B/C launch mount: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1687133770296795136

CosmicPenguin,

I've placed the full launch webcast on YouTube for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3aEmOWeB2k

CosmicPenguin,

They are really going for it, it seems!
All SRM rocket that lifts like Antares! From the sea! Before end of this year!

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1687321227202093056

CosmicPenguin,

Good overview of the basic architecture of the planned Chinese crew landing on the Moon (hint: it does look quite more like Apollo than Artemis!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-KrMfIkDdg

CosmicPenguin,

Not surprising TBH, maybe they will have more luck sending it to the ISS…

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1688505451015548929

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LMAO imagine any LSP in this world building 300 rocket engines for use every year…

(SpaceX reuses their engines so I’m sure they don’t need 300 Merlins/year these days, nor 300 Raptors in the future)

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1688548104176635904

CosmicPenguin,

There's lack of solid info, but it does seem that besides one that should launch in a day, there are another 2 from China w/t the next 4 days. One of them, August 10 03:00 - 08:00 UTC @ Jiuquan, can be tentatively ID-ed w/ the 7th Galactic Energy Ceres-1:

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1675015956916236289

CosmicPenguin,

This is based on the drop zones' relative locations & official reports of flight 7 being in this month, <20 days since last! It seems to be a share-ride with these 2 satellites giving a perfect match for launch dates: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1687536126305914880

CosmicPenguin,

There might also be another Jilin-1 EO satellite on board: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1686236308505849857

CosmicPenguin,

The other one is surprising though, on August 11, 17:00 - 21:00 UTC @ Xichang. The zone is run-of-the-mill for LM-3B launches towards GTO, but no good candidates for the thing on top exists, and when someone floated a "launch day mail cover" for this one a huge surprise is found!

CosmicPenguin,

The cover says it's LM-3B s/n Y92 launching a certain "Ludi Tance-4A". The "LTDC" part stands for "Land Probing" and was used as a different name for L-Band radar satellites L-SAR-01A & B launched Jan. & Feb. 2022 as "LTDC-1A/B". Which points to an interesting possibility for "LTDC-4A"...

CosmicPenguin,

I suddenly remembered CASC has officially reported a "20 m resolution high-orbit radar satellite" going to be launched this year (GEO?). It hasn't yet, but it sharing a name w/ other SAR EO satellites & being "land probing" too seems to put this as a real possibility.

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1616035599999471616

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