Google Unmasks Xichang - ASAT Pad Visible?

wrote:
In addition, there appears to be a new flat pad located near the
older, conventional Long March pads. This looks a lot like some of the
Russian mobile transporter/erector/launcher pads I've seen in photos.

"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=28.249064+N,
102.023613+E&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=28.249263,102.02386&s pn=0.002074,0.005364&t=k&om=0&iwloc=addr"

Could this be the ASAT launch pad?


They are intending to build new, larger space boosters in the
Proton/Ariane V class in the fairly near future; could this be initial
pad work for those?

Pat

On Feb 27, 7:45 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote:
In addition, there appears to be a new flat pad located near the
older, conventional Long March pads. This looks a lot like some of the
Russian mobile transporter/erector/launcher pads I've seen in photos.

"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=28.249064+N,
102.023613+E&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=28.249263,102.02386&s pn=0.002074,0.005364&t=k&om=0&iwloc=addr"

Could this be the ASAT launch pad?

They are intending to build new, larger space boosters in the
Proton/Ariane V class in the fairly near future; could this be initial
pad work for those?

Pat

I was wondering the same thing, but wasn't the recently announced
oceanside launch site on Hainan Island reported to be for the big new
launcher?

- Ed Kyle