Тяньчжоу-1 – CZ-7 – Вэньчан – 20.04.2017 11:41:35 UTC

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Tianzhou-1 launch pad transfer completed in China's Hainan Province
 
 
 CGTN

Опубликовано: 17 апр. 2017 г.

The vertical transfer of China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 was completed on Monday. Tianzhou-1 will blast off on a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province from April 20-24, heading to the Tiangong-2 space lab currently in orbit.

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Andrew Jones‏ @AJ_FI 10m ago

Long March 7 Y2 rocket rolled out at Hainan for ready for China's crucial Tianzhou-1 orbital refuelling mission: https://goo.gl/KncTy5 

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http://gbtimes.com/china/long-march-7-rocket-rolled-out-tianzhou-1-refuelling-mission

Long March 7 rocket rolled out for Tianzhou-1 refuelling mission

Andrew Jones
2017/04/17

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Rollout of the Long March 7 Y2 rocket on April 17, ahead of launch of Tianzhou-1.

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The Long March 7 rocket to launch China's first orbital resupply and refuelling mission, Tianzhou-1, was transferred to the launch pad at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre early on Monday morning.

The 2.7-km trip fr om the vertical assembly building took around 2.5 hours, starting at 07:30 local time on April 17. 

The Long March 7 Y2 will deliver Tianzhou-1 to low Earth orbit, wh ere it will rendezvous and dock with the Tiangong-2 space lab at an altitude of 390 kilometres.

The main goal of the mission is testing the transfer of liquid propellant to Tiangong-2 in microgravity - a process crucial to China's plans for launching and maintaining its own space station, starting with the Tianhe core module in 2018.

Liftoff from Launch Pad 201 at Wenchang on Hainan Island is expected in mid-to-late April, with current rumours and projections pointing to a possible liftoff on April 20. Live streams will be available of the launch.

With a length of 10.6 metres, a maximum diameter of 3.35m and a mass of 13 tonnes, Tianzhou-1 will be China's largest spacecraft so far, with Shenzhou and Tiangong spacecraft weighing in at around 8 tonnes.

If successful, Tianzhou-1 will be another major step towards China establishing a permanent human presence in space, with the CSS planned to be completed by 2022.

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While the mission's Long March 7 Y2 carrier rocket has been readied, preparations have been ongoing across and outside of China.
 
China is the third country to independently master rendezvous and docking, and the docking system for Tianzhou missions has been upgraded to facilitate the transfer of liquid propellant.

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Tianzhou-1 capable of carrying 6.5 tons of goods into space
 
 
 CGTN

Опубликовано: 17 апр. 2017 г.
As China's largest and heaviest spacecraft to date, the Tianzhou-1 is 10.6 meters long, and is capable of carrying 6.5 tons of goods into space at a time. The spacecraft contains two cabins, including a propelling module and a cargo bay. The vessel also has a cargo-carrying ratio of 0.48, which is among the highest in the world for a spacecraft of its type.

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Ready for blast-off! China to launch its 1st cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1
 
 
 New China TV

Опубликовано: 17 апр. 2017 г.

More progress in China's space program. The country plans to launch its first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 into space between April 20 and 24.

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Exclusive time-lapse clip: Tianzhou-1 and carrier rocket transported to launch pad
 
 
 CGTN

Опубликовано: 17 апр. 2017 г.

China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, is now being lifted onto the launch pad on a Long March-7 rocket at Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province. It will be launched between April 20 and 24.

Since the spacecraft arrived at Wenchang in the middle of February, scientists and engineers have been assembling parts and conducting tests.

The Tianzhou-1 cargo ship will carry fuel and experiments to the space laboratory Tiangong-2. The mission

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/17/chinas-first-robotic-resupply-freighter-transferred-to-launch-pad/

China's first robotic resupply freighter transferred to launch pad
 April 17, 2017 Stephen Clark

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A Chinese Long March 7 rocket rolled out to its launch pad at the Wenchang space center on China's Hainan Island on Monday. Credit: Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua

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Chinese engineers rolled out a Long March 7 rocket to a seaside launch complex on Hainan Island in the South China Sea on Monday, aiming to fire a robotic refueling freighter into orbit as soon as Thursday to test technology for China's future space station.

The Tianzhou 1 spacecraft mounted on top of the 174-foot-tall (53-meter) Long March 7 launcher will dock with the Tiangong 2 space lab around two days after liftoff, the first of three linkups planned during the cargo carrier's mission.

Chinese officials said the automated mission is due to launch some time between Thursday and next Monday.

Carried on top of a mobile launch table, the Long March 7 emerged from its vertical assembly building around 7:30 a.m. Beijing time Monday (2330 GMT; 7:30 p.m. EDT Sunday) and made the 1.7-mile (2.7 kilometer) journey in about two-and-a-half hours, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., or CASC, the state-owned lead contractor for the Chinese space program.

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The rocket and its 32-wheel mobile carrier weighed around 4 million pounds, or 1,800 metric tons, during the rail trip to the launch pad Monday.

A time lapse video of the rollout released by Chinese state television is posted below.



If the final preparations go smoothly, liftoff could occur around 1140 GMT (7:40 a.m. EDT; 7:40 p.m. Beijing time) Thursday from the Wenchang space center, a tropical facility on the northeast coast of Hainan Island that hosted its first space launch last year.

The launch is timed for when the Tiangong 2 space lab's orbit track passes over the Wenchang launch pad, allowing the Tianzhou 1 cargo craft to reach the human-tended module after deploying from the Long March 7's upper stage.

Tianzhou means "heavenly vessel" in Chinese, the name of a new series of supply ships designed to deliver supplies and rocket fuel to China's space station, which is scheduled to be completed in orbit by 2022 to support three-person crews for six-month expeditions.

Crews on China's space station will need fresh equipment, experiments and other supplies during long-duration missions. The longest Chinese spaceflight to date was the Shenzhou 11 crew's visit to the Tiangong 2 space lab last year, a mission that lasted approximately 32 days.

 
A view of the Tianzhou 1 spacecraft during launch preparations. Credit: CGTN/China 24

"For example, the daily supplies of the astronauts, including food and clothing, extravehicular spacesuits, as well as drinking water with special tanks," said Bai Mingsheng, chief designer of the Tianzhou 1 spacecraft at CASC. "We will see if the Tianzhou 1 spacecraft meets the demand of transporting and resupplying various goods through this launch."

Chinese officials said the Tianzhou 1 vessel, weighing nearly 29,000 pounds (around 13 metric tons), is the biggest and heaviest spacecraft ever built and launched by China.

Mao Wanbiao, deputy commander at the Tianzhou 1 launch site, said Monday's rollout marked the start of the final stage of launch preparations.

"All work is going smoothly, and we are ready for fueling and launching," Mao told China's CCTV state-run television network.

After the rocket reached the launch pad, a complex positioned around 2,000 feet (600 feet) from the beach, work platforms rotated around the Long March 7 to give workers access to the vehicle for final checks.

 
A Long March 7 rocket, framed by spring flowers, rolls to the launch pad at the Wenchang space center. Credit: Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua

The Tianzhou 1 spacecraft arrived at the Wenchang space center Feb. 13, and components of the Long March 7 rocket arrived in March for final assembly inside the vertical integration hangar.

Designed to accommodate up to 14,300 pounds (6,500 kilograms) of payloads, the Tianzhou spacecraft is similar in purpose to cargo freighters that fly to the International Space Station, such as the Russian Progress supply ship and the commercial Cygnus and Dragon carriers built by Orbital ATK and SpaceX.

In design and capability, the Tianzhou is most like Russia's Progress and Europe's now-retired Automated Transfer Vehicle, which carried dry goods, water and propellant to the orbiting outpost. The U.S. commercial supply ships and Japan's HTV logistics vessel cannot refuel the space station.

"This is a new experiment," Bai said in an interview with CCTV. "If we succeed, then the docking of manned spacecraft and cargo spacecraft will use this technology."

 
A Long March 7 rocket emerges from the vertical assembly building at Wenchang for Monday's rollout. Credit: Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua

The Tianzhou 1 spacecraft measures around 34.8 feet (10.6 meters) long and 11 feet (3.4 meters) in diameter. Once in orbit, the spaceship will extend its power-generating solar panels to a span of approximately 49 feet (15 meters) tip-to-tip.

"The Tianzhou 1's carrying capability is designed according to the scale of the space station, aiming to achieve the highest carrying capacity, with the lowest structural weight," Bai said. "There is an index for the spacecraft's carrying capacity, or payload ratio, as it is called. The payload ratio of Tianzhou 1 reaches 0.48, which ranks fairly high in the world."

He said the Tianzhou 1 mission is expected to last about two months, during which time the craft will dock with Tiangong 2 three times and refill the module's liquid propellant tanks. China's state-run Xinhua news agency previously reported the Tianzhou 1 spacecraft will then fly on its own for around three months before re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

Thursday's launch will be the second flight of a Long March 7 rocket, China's new medium-class launcher that debuted on a test flight in June 2016.

 
A Long March 7 rocket rolls out to its launch pad on Hainan Island on Monday. Credit: Xinhua/Zeng Tao

Powered by four liquid-fueled strap-on boosters and a twin-engine core stage, the Long March 7 will blast off with 1.6 million pounds of thrust. A single YF-100 engine is fixed to the base of each booster, each generating about 270,000 pounds of thrust, and two of the YF-100 powerplants propel the first stage, burning kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants.

Four smaller YF-115 engines, burning the same kerosene/liquid oxygen mixture, are mounted on the Long March 7's second stage.

The Long March 7 is capable of putting a payload of nearly 30,000 pounds — about 13.5 metric tons — into low Earth orbit, and more than 12,000 pounds — 5.5 metric tons — into a sun-synchronous polar orbit up to 435 miles (700 kilometers) in altitude.

China plans to launch the core piece of its planned 60-ton space station next year, followed by the addition of research and habitation modules. Crew and cargo ships could begin visiting the space complex soon after the launch of Tianhe 1, the central module, on a heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket from Wenchang.

 
The moon looms in the morning sky as the Long March 7 rocket is transferred to its launch pad Monday. Credit: Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua

Built between 2009 and 2014, the Wenchang launch center sits at 19 degrees north latitude, closer to the equator than any other Chinese rocket base, giving China better access to place satellites in geostationary orbit. It also allows rockets to drop their spent boosters in the ocean instead of over land, as is the case with China's landlocked launch sites.

The Long March 5 is needed to loft the heavy pieces of the space station, and it accomplished a successful maiden flight in November. A second launch of a Long March 5 rocket is set for June, when it will take off from Wenchang with an experimental communications satellite.

The third Long March 5 flight in November will dispatch China's robotic lunar sample return craft, named Chang'e 5, to land on the moon and bring rock specimens back to Earth.

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Яндекс намекает

 https://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?lr=51&cl4url=regnum.ru%2Fnews%2Fit%2F2264336.html&lang=ru&rubric=cosmos&from=rubric

Китай готовится к празднованию Дня космонавтики 24 апреля

... Напомним, что Китай празднует свойДень космонавтики 24 апреля, в годовщину запуска первого китайского спутника «Дунфанхун-1» в 1970 году.
REGNUM 03:30

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NOTAM на 20 апреля, 11:31-11:50 UTC

A0894/17 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED WITHIN A CIRCLE CENTERED AT N1937E11057 WITH RADIUS OF 20KM
VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 20 APR 11:31 2017 UNTIL 20 APR 11:50 2017. CREATED: 18 APR 07:40 2017

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ChinaSpaceflight‏ @cnspaceflight 1 ч. назад

【天舟一号】预计2017年4月20日19:31-19:50从文昌发射升空。#Tianzhou1

[Tianzhou 1] is expected on April 20, 2019 19: 31-19: 50 launch from Wenchang.

[Tianzhou 1], как ожидается, 20 апреля 2017 19: 31-19: 50 запущен из Вэньчан.

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NOTAM на 20 апреля, 11:31-11:50 UTC

A0894/17 - A TEMPORARY RESTRICTED AREA ESTABLISHED WITHIN A CIRCLE CENTERED AT N1937E11057 WITH RADIUS OF 20KM
VERTICAL LIMITS: GND-UNL. GND - UNL, 20 APR 11:31 2017 UNTIL 20 APR 11:50 2017. CREATED: 18 APR 07:40 2017

14:31 - 14:50 по Москве.
Может расщедрятся на прямую трансляцию?

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NAVAREA XI NO.17-0254 Date:2017/04/18 12 UTC
 
SOUTH CHINA SEA, NORTHERN PART.
ROCKET LAUNCHING. 201100Z TO 201300Z
APR. FOLLOWING RANGE CLEARANCE AREAS
BOUNDED BY
A. 14-25-18N 116-28-39E
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B. 13-56-34N 116-55-36E
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C. 13-23-15N 117-27-30E
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CANCEL THIS MSG 201600Z APR.

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Прогноз погоды на 20-е

ChinaSpaceflight‏ @cnspaceflight 6 ч. назад

【文昌卫星发射中心wslc】4月20日天气多云，微风，没有雷阵雨啦。#Tianzhou1

[Wenchang satellite launch center wslc] April 20 weather, breeze, no thunderstorms friends.

[Вэньчан wslc] 20 апреля облачно, ветер, независимо от гроз.

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В Вэньчане вводят запрет на перевозку особо опасных грузов и грузов массой свыше 5 т 2017-04-20 с 00:00 до 24:00

ChinaSpaceflight‏ @cnspaceflight 2 ч. назад

【天舟一号】飞行任务期间,文昌市部分道路实施交通管制.4月20日0时至24时，禁止运载易燃易爆危化品运输车、核载5吨以上货运车辆进入文昌市管制路段，管制路段禁止停放一切车辆。#Tianzhou1

During the flight mission, the traffic control of some roads in Wenchang City was carried out. From 0:00 to 24:00 on April 20, it was forbidden to carry flammable and explosive hazardous chemicals carriers, and more than 5 tons of cargo vehicles were imported into Wenchang City Control of road sections, control sections prohibit the parking of all vehicles.

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Запуск намечен на 19:41 2017-04-20, 2017-04-19 после полудня началась заправка компонентами топлива...

ChinaSpaceflight‏ @cnspaceflight 26 мин. назад

据中国载人航天工程办公室消息，经空间实验室飞行任务总指挥部研究决定，瞄准4月20日19时41分发射天舟一号货运飞船。19日下午，执行此次发射任务的长征七号遥二运载火箭开始加注推进剂。#Tianzhou1

According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office news, the space laboratory flight mission headquarters of the study decided to aim at April 20 at 19:41 launch Tianzhou1 cargo ship. On the afternoon of 19 am, the launch of the Long March II launch vehicle began to raise the propellant.

По данным новостей пилотируемого космического агентства Китая, штаб-квартира миссии полета космической лаборатории исследования решила нацелиться на 20 апреля в 19:41 Tianzhou1. Во второй половине дня 19:00 запуск ракеты-носителя Long March II начал поднимать ракетное топливо.

Прим. Указано Пекинское время (UTC+8 )

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CGTN‏Подлинная учетная запись @CGTNOfficial 26 мин назад

China to launch its first cargo spacecraft #Tianzhou1 at 11:41 a.m. GMT at Wenchang Space Launch Center in S. China's Hainan #SpaceChina

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И от Синьхуа

China Xinhua News‏Подлинная учетная запись @XHNews 28 мин. назад

China to launch its cargo spaceship #Tianzhou-1 at 7:41 p.m. Thursday

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-04/19/c_136220979.htm

China to launch first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1
 
Source: Xinhua | 2017-04-19 19:14:20 | Editor: An
 

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Photo taken on April 17, 2017 shows the cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 being transferred with a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket from the testing center to the launch zone in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province. China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 is to be launched into space between April 20 and 24, according to the office of China's manned space program. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua)

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WENCHANG, Hainan, April 19 (Xinhua) -- China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 is scheduled for launch at 7:41 p.m. Thursday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, the office of China's manned space program said Wednesday.

The cargo spacecraft will be carried into orbit by a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket, the office said.

Fuelled by liquid oxygen and kerosene, the medium-sized rocket is able to carry cargo spacecraft and man-made satellites. It made its maiden flight June 2016.

Tianzhou-1 is the first cargo ship independently developed by the country. It is expected to operate in orbit at an altitude of 380 kilometers before docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab, it said.

The cargo spacecraft will also carry out space experiments, including one on non-Newtonian gravitation, before falling back to earth.

The launch of Tianzhou-1 will mark a crucial step for China in building a space station by 2020.

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http://russian.news.cn/2017-04/19/c_136220931.htm

Первый грузовой космический корабль Китая "Тяньчжоу-1" готов к запуску
 
2017-04-19 18:41:44丨Russian.News.Cn
 
 Вэньчан /пров. Хайнань/, 19 апреля /Синьхуа/ -- Первый грузовой космический корабль Китая "Тяньчжоу-1" готов к запуску. Об этом сообщили в среду на космодроме Вэньчан, расположенном в южнокитайской островной провинции Хайнань.

Накануне на космодроме прошла генеральная репетиция запуска корабля, в ходе которой были проверены все системы, участвующие в запуске. Итоги проверки показали, что и космический корабль, и ракета-носитель находятся в рабочем состоянии и готовы к запуску.

Запуск "Тяньчжоу-1" запланирован на 20-24 апреля. Это первый грузовой космический корабль, самостоятельно созданный Китаем. На него возлагаются задачи по стыковке с орбитальной лабораторией "Тяньгун-2" и дозаправке топливом на орбите.