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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
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Thornton, Colorado IKONOS IMAGE OF THE WEEK: October 5, 2003 Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China [http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm] Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled one-meter resolution satellite image of China's expansive Jiuquan Space Launch Center in northwestern China about 100 kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The image shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates taken from the map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be located at latitude 40.9581, longitude 100.2912. According to news reports and the Chinese News Agency, China is set to launch their first astronaut into space next week making them only the third nation to launch a manned-spacecraft into orbit. Credit: Space Imaging |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
"Andrew Yee" wrote in message
... Space Imaging Thornton, Colorado IKONOS IMAGE OF THE WEEK: October 5, 2003 Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China [http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm] Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled one-meter resolution satellite image of China's expansive Jiuquan Space Launch Center in northwestern China about 100 kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The image shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates taken from the map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be located at latitude 40.9581, longitude 100.2912. According to news reports and the Chinese News Agency, China is set to launch their first astronaut into space next week making them only the third nation to launch a manned-spacecraft into orbit. Credit: Space Imaging Nice launch pad... (no LV visible and feeling cynical). Nice tribute to a dictatorship that's killed hundreds of thousands of people - when does GWB start bombing this one? Or does he only have enough guts to take on countries with no capability to defend themselves? -- Alan Erskine alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au Schwartzenegger - the new Reagan. |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
Andrew Yee wrote
Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China [http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm] Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled one-meter resolution satellite image of China's expansive Jiuquan Space Launch Center in northwestern China about 100 kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The image shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates taken from the map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be located at latitude 40.9581, longitude 100.2912. Interestingly, the present coverage shows that the "Jiuquan" center isn't particularly near Jiuquan, and it's actually in Inner Mongolia, not the commonly-cited Gansu Province. The support base, for you with China maps, is in a small town called Huxi Xincun (or Hexixincun). See the www.globalsecurity.org picture gallery for details. Apparently Huxi Xincun is to Jiuquan as Leninsk was to Baikonur. |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China(Forwarded)
Alan Erskine wrote: Nice launch pad... (no LV visible and feeling cynical). Nice tribute to a dictatorship that's killed hundreds of thousands of people - when does GWB start bombing this one? Or does he only have enough guts to take on countries with no capability to defend themselves? Lenin said that you may always count upon a capitalist to sell you the rope you are going to hang him with- the rope is on sale for $2.98 this week at Walmart; along with lots of other Chinese-made products. Pat |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:15:29 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: Alan Erskine wrote: ....Dunno if he's the real one or not, but at least he's killfiled. Lenin said that you may always count upon a capitalist to sell you the rope you are going to hang him with- the rope is on sale for $2.98 this week at Walmart; along with lots of other Chinese-made products. ....The biggest mistake the Tsar made was not having Lenin assasinated the same way Stalin did in Trotsky. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
On 12 Oct 2003 09:09:37 -0700, (Allen Thomson)
wrote: Apparently Huxi Xincun is to Jiuquan as Leninsk was to Baikonur. ....Which is simply more proof that the Chinese just copied everyone else's methods. I predict that Shenzhou 6 will have a capsule loss after a hatch blows prematurely, setting into motion a sequence of events that 40 years from now we'll result in some brainwashed mama's boy from Bejing polluting the group with insults and outlandish claims that his father was assasinated on orders from the Premier because he complained about using recycled Russian junk. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China(Forwarded)
OM wrote: ...The biggest mistake the Tsar made was not having Lenin assasinated the same way Stalin did in Trotsky. OM His dad would have known how to deal with Comrade L.- it would have probably involved the Cossacks, and left only a red spot where the Red had been standing. Pat |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:17:58 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:
His dad would have known how to deal with Comrade L.- it would have probably involved the Cossacks, and left only a red spot where the Red had been standing. Maybe YOU should write to Scientific American, you might have just explained what that big thing on Jupiter is! G |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
"Rick DeNatale" wrote in message
news On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:17:58 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: His dad would have known how to deal with Comrade L.- it would have probably involved the Cossacks, and left only a red spot where the Red had been standing. Maybe YOU should write to Scientific American, you might have just explained what that big thing on Jupiter is! G NO!!! I mean, pllleeeze don't give Pat the idea of writing to a magazine with his ideas - he'll eventually tell the rest of the world about us and our credibility will be shot to hell! ;-) -- Alan Erskine alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au The U.S. Government is in the peculiar position of toppling foreign governments in the name of democracy. Oh, how democractic! |
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IKONOS image of the week: Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China (Forwarded)
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: ...The biggest mistake the Tsar made was not having Lenin assasinated the same way Stalin did in Trotsky. Never mind the Tsar -- the biggest mistake the *Russian Communist Party* made was not having Lenin assassinated. (Lenin got a very chilly reception from the local party leaders when he arrived in Moscow after years in exile, calling for immediate violent revolution. They were trying to work something out with the rest of the fumbling factions then struggling to create a workable post-Tsar government. Only Lenin and his immediate followers, who were initially not very numerous and not very convincing, were totally opposed to deals and power-sharing. Had the more moderate Communists realized what was coming, inconspicuously murdering Lenin would have looked very attractive.) -- MOST launched 1015 EDT 30 June, separated 1046, | Henry Spencer first ground-station pass 1651, all nominal! | |
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