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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."
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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
nope . That would be like US importing Mexican scientists.
I doubt it. More like "secret" orbit.
Yes, very likely to be the truth.
Or even for a test to shut down/disable other satellites.
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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.)
I doubt it. More like "secret" orbit.
You jest, but if anyone's inclined to take you seriously: it's unlikely. Observation (and spy) satellites need to be in a circular, sun-synchronous orbit. The second part is there, as they have the inclination of 97.6 degrees. However, an elliptical orbit with the apogee of 524 km tells us that the first (and possibly the only) circularization burn failed. A satellite in such an orbit is pretty much useless.
The "egg shaped" orbit of this Chinese satellite is very close to the orbits of the US KH-11 spy satellites. So it might well be a knock off.
They know what it means... it's that thing you are supposed to use for exercise but use as a clothing stand.
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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.
It's interesting that Wikipedia shows a conceptual drawing of a spy satellite. It can see us, can we not see it?
"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...
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).
I'm sure they tried that, but the engine didn't actually thrust because they put on the stack separator upside down and it's blocking the exhaust.
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nope . That would be like US importing Mexican scientists.
The U.S. does import Mexican scientists. I work with a very talented one.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
close, but a good 40km deeper into the atmosphere at perigee, which will induce more drag, reducing apogee height. If this thing is already not able to thrust to their intended orbit, the drag will eventually pull it down deeper into the atmosphere where it will burn up.
The KH-11s probably have working thrusters that keep them in their orbits for their designed lifetimes, and there are probably replacements sitting in a hangar at Vandenberg AFB.
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I work with a very talented one.
That was what I was trying to emphasize on ,
BTW Minguel de Icaza is also mexican .
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.
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?
The failure wasn't because of that, it was because they used guaranteed 100% genuine components from Aliexpress.
Cut corners. Fail. Break it. Do it again, still cutting corners. Fail. Pass it off as acceptable.
Gnome is not a failed project. But i like fluxbox much better