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As I just mentioned in the post above, India's first orbital astronomy observatory is just 1 hour away from liftoff. This UV and X-ray spectrum oriented satellite carries 5 instruments for observing high energy things from inside the solar system to active galaxies and quasars. For a list of the...

If anyone here got the Moon behind the clouds or (for me here, ironically where the Mid-Autumn Festival got celebrated) drowned by the Sun, NASA TV have live coverage right now. :tiphat:

After trying out new rockets, a spacecraft to Mars (which just celebrated one Earth year of operations in Mars orbit) and various new targets, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is now about to stretch their operations into a new territory - the operation of orbital astronomy...

Looks like it did successfully launch at 01:41 UTC! :hmm:

Just 5 days after very first launch of one of China's next generation rockets, the Vega class Long March 6, the Chinese are going to make another maiden flight of another of their rockets! :blink: The Long March 11 rocket is the least known of China's next generation rockets. This is not...

OK never mind whether if this post is the 1st or the 10000th search result on Google, or that I'm now 10 days late, but my own report can now be seen on the very first post on this thread. :tiphat:

Well I sure would visit, if someone can sponsor me a two way flight ticket from HK to London. :P

...and confirmed:

Seems to be a full success. Official news should come very soon... Amazing the story made it to the state news TV channel just before launch. Here's some CG and launch processing shots of the LM-6:

Always thought that they Chinese will have to encounter scrubs along the way for this one. :rofl: As seen from above, they will try again tomorrow.

In a few hours time, one of the largest milestones of recent Chinese spaceflight history (especially on the rocketry section) will occur - and we won't know anything about it had not been the fact that amateur radio operators are waiting for this one! :ninja: The maiden flight of China's next...

Well as you can see with the lack of further posts, the Block DM-03 performed flawlessly. Another curse down for the time being for the Proton. :tiphat:

A review of the landing a week earlier:

1. Well, yes that's the first part. I guess in a later release it might be possible for the autopilot to calculate how to fly given a certain target orbit parameter and reignitable=0? I know it might be very difficult... (can anyone who have such programming experience comment on that?) 2...

As someone who has tweaked various multistage autopilot scripts throughout the years, I wonder if the new version can have these abilities: 1. The option to specify the final stage of the rocket to make only one burn (i.e. direct ascent) - some real life rockets' uppermost stage cannot...

The Proton did a perfect job. The Block DM-03 show starts......now!

Report finished. :tiphat:

The intriguing Great Chinese Spaceflight Mystery Month (TM) continues with yet another strange satellite launch just 1.5 days apart! This time the launch originated from the Gobi Desert. At 04:42 UTC on September 14, just after midday, the 23rd Long March 2D rocket flew off from the satellite...

Just less than 3 weeks after its strike back from the abyss, the infamous Proton rocket is about to make another attempt in breaking one of its many curses. This one though is quite stronger than many others (such as its lack of new commercial launch contracts, broken just hours earlier with one...

Well, is this thread still sounding confusing to you guys right now? No worries, because the Chinese are still pretty mum about this launch! :rofl: As mentioned earlier, the 28th Long March 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center's pad 2 two days ago at 15:42 UTC. Apparently...