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Chinese launch in bad weather
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n...rch/index.html
"Launching in a torrential rain and lightning storm, a Long March rocket lifted off Tuesday from southwest China and successfully released a navigation satellite in orbit, state-run media reported." Are they taking huge risks or are their rockets that reliable? |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 21:46:49 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous
wrote, in part: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n...rch/index.html "Launching in a torrential rain and lightning storm, a Long March rocket lifted off Tuesday from southwest China and successfully released a navigation satellite in orbit, state-run media reported." Are they taking huge risks or are their rockets that reliable? Maybe the storm was an unexpected one that started after the rocket was fuelled. That is the only circumstance under which I could imagine this might make sense. John Savard http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
In article ci.org,
Anonymous wrote: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n...rch/index.html "Launching in a torrential rain and lightning storm, a Long March rocket lifted off Tuesday from southwest China and successfully released a navigation satellite in orbit, state-run media reported." Are they taking huge risks or are their rockets that reliable? Huge risks. T-storm wind gusts can overpower the controllability of a rocket both at launch and at max Q. They could have lost the bird. |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On 2011-08-09, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ci.org, Anonymous wrote: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n...rch/index.html "Launching in a torrential rain and lightning storm, a Long March rocket lifted off Tuesday from southwest China and successfully released a navigation satellite in orbit, state-run media reported." Are they taking huge risks or are their rockets that reliable? Huge risks. T-storm wind gusts can overpower the controllability of a rocket both at launch and at max Q. They could have lost the bird. Don't forget: Chinese, as well as before Soviet Union, do not care about resources and are using ballistic rockets for spacecrafts. They were build to launch in difficult conditions. -- Phlog: gopher://sdf.org/1/users/karnath Jabber: |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On 9/08/2011 5:46 AM, Anonymous wrote:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n...rch/index.html "Launching in a torrential rain and lightning storm, a Long March rocket lifted off Tuesday from southwest China and successfully released a navigation satellite in orbit, state-run media reported." Are they taking huge risks or are their rockets that reliable? Just another anonymous Reece coward. |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 05:43:46 +0000 (UTC), karnath
wrote, in part: and are using ballistic rockets for spacecrafts. What exactly are the Redstone, the Atlas, and the Titan? Chopped liver? John Savard http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On 2011-08-09, John Savard wrote:
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 05:43:46 +0000 (UTC), karnath wrote, in part: and are using ballistic rockets for spacecrafts. What exactly are the Redstone, the Atlas, and the Titan? Chopped liver? Why you people always start to feel discomfit about US rockets when somebody mentions Chinese? I didn't say a word about these. Of course they are not chopped liver. But they are build in different economical environment. |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:16:42 +0000 (UTC), karnath
wrote, in part: Why you people always start to feel discomfit about US rockets when somebody mentions Chinese? I didn't say a word about these. Of course they are not chopped liver. But they are build in different economical environment. My point is - they are "ballistic rockets" too, so if the fact that a rocket is also used as a ballistic missile makes it more normal to launch it in foul weather, this would apply to the American ones as well. John Savard http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On 8/9/2011 9:25 AM, John Savard wrote:
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 05:43:46 +0000 (UTC), karnath wrote, in part: and are using ballistic rockets for spacecrafts. What exactly are the Redstone, the Atlas, and the Titan? Chopped liver? Don't forget Thor and Jupiter. Jupiter didn't last that long as a launch vehicle, but Thor was the direct ancestor of the Delta II. Pat |
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Chinese launch in bad weather
On 8/9/2011 1:56 PM, John Savard wrote:
My point is - they are "ballistic rockets" too, so if the fact that a rocket is also used as a ballistic missile makes it more normal to launch it in foul weather, this would apply to the American ones as well. I don't know about Atlas, but the Titan II ICBM at least was designed to launch in pretty foul weather, with its silo giving it a lot of protection up till the launch itself. Minuteman III has the advantage of its jettisonable nose cone giving some protection against hail and lightning to the three (now just one*) warheads housed inside of it. In the case of the earlier ICBMs and IRBMs the RV was exposed to the exterior weather during ascent and could have been damaged by passing through hail or a lightning strike on the missile's nose. * A W87 taken off of a deactivated MX "Peacekeeper" missile. Since each missile now carries only a single warhead, ABMs are now a practical concept from an economic point of view again. Pat |
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