Message posted by Matthew Ruch on November 12, 2009 at 9:18:16 PST:
It may have to do with the launch of a Chinese satellite last night. This message came through one of the Satellite Observation Groups I belong to: China has launched a satellite, objects are 36088/9. (Found it first on Calsky so am not violating the Space-Track user agreement :-) I can't find any confirmation of details at this stage, but am I correct that this is probably ShiJian X1-01 and its Long March rocket as per: http://tinyurl.com/yfxdsl6 ? We would have some visible passes here but it is currently cloudy and this may be an issue for the next few days. Robert Holdsworth -------------------------------- According to Xinhua News Agency launch SJ-11-01 occured on 2009-11-12 02:45 UTC (10:45 local i.e. Beijing time). Only in Chinese yet: http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2009-11/12/content_12443886.htm Machine translation: At 10:45 on November 12, China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the "long march II C" carrier rocket successfully "practice on the 11th 01 Stars" into space. "Practice on the 11th 01 Stars" by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation-owned Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Company developed and manufactured, mainly for space science and technology experiments. Xinhua News Agency issued (Xu Hai-Han Chang) Chart: China's successful launch of the "practice on the 11th 01 Star" Xinhua News Agency issued Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Wainuiomata
New Zealand
174.948E
41.261S
Xinhua Jiuquan November 12 (Xinhua Tang Zhenyu, Li Qinghua) at 10:45 on the 12th, China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the "long march II C" carrier rocket successfully "practice on the 11th 01 Star" into space .
"Practice on the 11th 01 Stars" by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation-owned Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Company developed and manufactured, mainly for space science and technology experiments.
Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc.
Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420/221 403 255, fax +420/224 240 611
Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic
Phone:
Coord.: 14.2178 deg E, 49.8485 deg N, 442 m ASL
My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html
In Reply to: Interesting communication intercept posted by Steve Douglass on November 12, 2009 at 7:29:09 PST:
Replies: