China Preparing for Long March 5 launch on 27 December
25 December 2019
Leonard David is summarising the status of launch preparation for the Long March 5 rocket at Wenchang. His article is including a link to CGTN video footage from the launch site.
Leonard David also included a link to LaunchStuff on Twitter who announced the launch date for the CZ-5 set for 27 December. LaunchStuff also provided a link to a one minute video of the arrival of the 3rd Long March 5 on board the Yuanwang-21 and Yuanwang-22 at the Qinglan Port on Hainan Island, the off-loading, transport to assembly hall in Wenchang, and the assembly.
link to the video showing the CZ-5 arrival (might take a little while to load)
or follow LaunchStuff on Twitter
link to Leonard David's article...
DSLWP-B (Longjiang-2) public data release - whole mission telemetry
25 December 2019
All telemetry data of the DSLWP-B captured by the DSLWP amateur radio team from the DSLWP-B amateur radio payload were publicly released and published on Zenodo portal. Spanish amateur spacecraft tracker Daniel Estévez (EA4GPZ) made a Jupyter notebook, providing a simple way to study the data.
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Introduction to the data set by Daniel Estévez on https://destevez.net
Waiting for Long March 5 - it is on its way... keeping fingers crossed!!!!!
LaunchStuff is posting on Twitter photos and videos from the launch pad and launch in Wenchang.
Also, a link to a launch tower tour (in Chinese) by CCTV can be found - see the 3 1/2 min video tour of the Wenchang launch tower here.
Stephen Chen of SCMP wrote an article to summarize the big expectations attached to the imminent CZ-5 launch.
China makes final preparations for critical Long March 5 rocket launch.
In the meanwhile, Xinhua is reflecting on the press conference on the occasion of the "one-year anniversary of China's BDS-3 system providing global service."
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CZ-5 launched China's most advanced satellite into space
27 December 2019
China's biggest, heaviest and most advanced satellite was sent into space on the night of 27 December to carry out demonstration and verification for advanced satellite and communication technologies. Shijian 20, a technology demonstration satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing, was lifted into orbit by the third mission of the Long March 5 carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Hainan province at 20:45 h BJT.
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