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Chinese Rocket Fails To Put Two Satellites Into Correct Orbits (spaceflightnow.com)
schwit1 writes: Tracking data suggests that two Earth-observation satellites launched today by China's Long March 2D rocket were placed in the wrong orbits. Spaceflight Now reports: "The two SuperView 1, or Gaojing 1, satellites are flying in egg-shaped orbits ranging from 133 miles (214 kilometers) to 325 miles (524 kilometers) in altitude at an inclination of 97.6 degrees. The satellites would likely re-enter Earth's atmosphere within months in such a low orbit, and it was unclear late Wednesday whether the craft had enough propellant to raise their altitudes. The high-resolution Earth-observing platforms were supposed to go into a near-circular orbit around 300 miles (500 kilometers) above the planet to begin their eight-year missions collecting imagery for Siwei Star Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., a government-owned entity."
Everything in China is owned by the government. No company for yous!!!
Remember how the United States imported German scientists to develop nuclear weapons and other such gizmos?
Why do I get the feeling that China brought in North Korean scientists?
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"flying in egg-shaped orbits "
Maybe you mean elliptical orbits.
You can't get an egg shape (one end wider than the other) without coniuing to use thrust
Put a maneuvre node at the apoapsis and estimate the delta-v you need to raise the periapsis, no? Then warp to next maneuvre node and start thrusting...
I doubt it. More like "secret" orbit.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Not sure what the orbit is but it would be a good cover story for a short term surveillance satellite. Especially to observe other satellites.
You are the terrorists john.
Copies of Kerbal Space Program. Hell, even pirate it.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Don't forget India and Japan also have launch capabilities. And before you joke about it, India has a better track record than China. (Perfect, in case you were wondering.)
You seem obsessed with Trump. It's pretty obvious you want to fuck him.
They know what it means... it's that thing you are supposed to use for exercise but use as a clothing stand.
Rocket Long March 2 composing genuine , flight of satellite egg duck spacing air.
Ftfy. That's Alibaba.
They did pull off a first if they managed to establish an egg shaped orbit. Virtually every other orbit that isn't affected by a third body is elliptical.
Now China is going to claim that they own low Earth orbit, and forbid anyone else to move through it. But we will continue to do so, as the claim is ridiculous.
"The high-resolution Earth-observing platforms..."
In other words, "spy satellites specifically built for tracking people".
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I would if it didn't cost 50% more.
Well despite all the jokes, admittedly doing anything in space is difficult and prone to failure even on systems that are "proven". Due to a programming failure, the European Mars lander ended up as a crater instead of landing and that's not the first Mars lander to mess up and probably not the last. Putting stuff into orbit sometimes doesn't even make it off the ground (SpaceX, Orbital Sciences).
Their two spy satellites are going to be toast, tough luck Chinese military intelligence.
By taking the profit motive out of the organization, we see our unlimited potential to succeed.
They probably curse at the "Made in the US" printing on some of the parts
Lolwut
You live in the cold war era. Next time it will not be a deorbitted satellite but China will place a nuke in some other country because they miscalculated... or worse, it was not supposed to be a nuke... only a commercial application of radioactivity, like batteries... Africans call Russians all people who are not People, Men (African) or Oriental or Cat or Dog or Yun or Jan or Lineage (Indians)... and sometimes refer to us USA as Chinese (because we buy gadgets and gadgets are Made in China, we all know that). You can play Country only so far, there is cooperation in spatial technology, for instance, and for the most part we are still Occidentals and fundamentally undistinguishable, save for language induced differences and peccata minuta like ideologies. The spatial race was a good thing after all, but people like you should instead try luck in videogames, now that they are available. Plenty of conflict to be had there. I doubt any move short of war by any USA politician can affect much administrative figures like budget, GNP, wages, etc.
Cut corners. Fail. Break it. Do it again, still cutting corners. Fail. Pass it off as acceptable.