YaoGan Weixing-12, Tian Xun-1 – Тайюань – CZ-4B – 09.11.2011 07:21 ЛМВ

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=5060.msg823560#msg823560

November 04 (?) - CZ-4B - TSLC - YG-12 YaoGan Weixing-12

[Старый]

Большая ракета. Радиолокационный?
Или новая серия?

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27227.msg825639#msg825639

YaoGan Weixing-12 will probably be launched from Taiyuan in the next few days.

in http://lt.cjdby.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1260032&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D10%26typeid%3D10
it reads that the most likely launch date is 11 06

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27227.msg825983#msg825983

If this thing is really the successor to YG-5 (as rumored for some time already), then I would guess the launch time could be around 03:00 - 05:00 UTC on November 6th. The problem is that it's eerily quiet on the Chinese front...  

[Lanista]

Где смотреть?

[instml]

Почти 100% что прямой трансляции не будет. Даже дата-время пуска непонятно какие.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27227.msg826084#msg826084

No sign of this one launching yet? Could someone send me a PM if it does (I'd rather three people did, as opposed to no one) and I'll get Rui's article on (I'll be on e-mail not web access for the interim).

Chris, nothing's happening at this moment: no official news (the Chinese stopped doing that since the failure in August), no blogger reporting on a launch happening (or even anything close to that), no NOTAMs, no sightings of UFOs, no secret satellites being found by the Americans, no fireballs falling out of the sky...   So I don't know what's going on, and the launch status could be anywhere from a stealth launch achieved to not happening for some days from now.  

[Salo]

И тишина...

[Salo]

Rain is supposed to stop Tuesday in the TSLC area...

[instml]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27227.msg826374#msg826374

A post on a Chinese forum seems to indicate a launch on November 11.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27227.msg827133#msg827133

LOL, it has just been launched! Launch time is 03:21 UTC (I got the correct launch time!).  

Also onboard is the Tian Xun-1 picosatellite built by the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

[Salo]

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/11/long-march-4b-launches-yaogan-weixing-12/

[Salo]

[Sharicoff]

По времени запуска - преемник Яоганя-5 (улетел в декабре 2008). Правда, тот ушел на 4С, а этот почему-то на 4B.

[instml]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27227.msg827162#msg827162

[Sharicoff]

Яогань-5, декабрь 2008 года. Найди, как грится, 10 отличий...

[Sharicoff]

Второй (северный) стартовый комплекс. Он же "Launch Complex 9".

[Sharicoff]

Если предположения верны - ожидаем клиента на ССО высотой около 490 км с наклонением 97.4°

[Sharicoff]

Еще один кандидат в гипотетические аналоги - Яогань-8. В этом случае совпадает по ракете, но не очень бьется по LTAN. Надо ждать тлешек - тогда все станет понятно.
Кстати, YG-8 тоже улетел с дополнительной ПН - малым спутником, как и нынешний.

[Liss]

По первому комплекту элементов: 97.41°, 484x507 км, 94.34 мин.
В натуре копия "Яогань-5".