Chinese KT-1 launch failure? Translation needed

Hello,

i found this news from a failed rocket launch:
http://china-spacenews.com/News/news_detail.asp?id=6958
Unfortunately it is in chinese and the Bablefish translation is not quite
good. Can anyone with proper knowledge of chinese language please translate
or summarize this news.

Thanks,
Gunter Krebs

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:48:20 +0200, "Gunter Krebs"
wrote:

Hello,

i found this news from a failed rocket launch:
http://china-spacenews.com/News/news_detail.asp?id=6958
Unfortunately it is in chinese and the Bablefish translation is not quite
good. Can anyone with proper knowledge of chinese language please translate
or summarize this news.

translation

Bugger, it didn't work. Dam those cheap American components, next
time we'll use Japanese ones.

/translation


Christopher
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Kites rise highest against
the wind - not with it."
Winston Churchill

"Gunter Krebs" wrote

i found this news from a failed rocket launch:
http://china-spacenews.com/News/news_detail.asp?id=6958
Unfortunately it is in chinese and the Bablefish translation is not quite
good. Can anyone with proper knowledge of chinese language please translate
or summarize this news.



Chen Lan posted this on FPSpace:

China just announced a successful KT-1 test launch on Sep 16
from Taiyuan. Obviously it was a suborbital flight.

KT-1 is a 4-stage all-solid mobile space launcher which is derived
from the DF-31 strategic missle

and

- The source is the offical "China Space News"
(www.china-spacenews.com)
- The test flight is considered successful in "R&D standard"
- The guidence system, fairing and satellite separation worked
well
- The launch happened on Sep 16 at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
- Some of objectives were not reached during this test flight.
- The next target is to put a small satellite into orbit as soon
as possible.

Chen Lan posted this on FPSpace:

And a bit more, also from Chen Lan (a correction he sent is
incorportated into the below text). His original messages are
viewable at

http://www.friends-partners.org/pipe...er/thread.html


Further information about the KT-1 launch:

- It is confirmed that payload of this KT-1 launch is the
40-kg PS2 microsat. The target orbit is 300kmx300km polar orbit.

- The PS2 launch service contract was signed on July 29 between
Aerospace Solid Launch Vehicle Corp.(ASLVC) and Harbin Fenghua-
Aerospace Hi-Tech CO.LTD, a Shenzhen listed company (stock code
0901).

Beijing Launch System Technologies, a subsidiary of Harbin
Fenghua, provided KT-1 launch service at RMB48.5 million (USD
5.8 million). ASLVC is the customer of this R&D launch but is
also the developer of the launch vehicle, while the latter acts
as the launch service provider. China Aerospace Science and
Industry Corp.(CASIC) are major shareholder of both companies.
ASLV has also shares in Harbin Fenghua.

- KT-1 is developed purely by CASIC funding, without any
government investment. Last year's failure has already put the
project in difficult situation.

Information source (public releases of the listed company):
http://stock.szptt.net.cn/info/comIn...d=6&seq=219399
(EGM resolution)
http://stock.szptt.net.cn/info/comIn...d=6&seq=215326
(trade announcement)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_1097266.htm

BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- China has successfully test-fired
its first four-stage solid-fuel launch vehicle capable of putting
small satellites into space, a spokesperson for the developer said
on Wednesday.

The spokesperson for China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp (CASIC)
said that the successful test on Sept. 16 at north China's Taiyuan
Satellite Launch Center makes China the third country in the world
capable of developing such rockets after the United States and
Russia.

[One notes that Japan, India and Israel have developed generally
similar SLVs.]

The newly-developed rocket is capable of putting up to 100-kg
satellites into orbit around the earth for resources exploration,
environmental monitoring and survey, scientific experiments and
other purposes, said the spokesperson.



http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/03092....i1aunqro.html

China develops its first solid-fuel satellite rocket
BEIJING (AFP) Sep 24, 2003
[EXCERPTS]

China has successfully test-fired its first four-stage solid-fuel
rocket capable of putting small satellites into space on short
notice, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.

The Xinhua report did not say whether the rocket had any connection
to the launching of space flights or whether it could launch
satellites for military use.

The People's Daily website said the rocket would be convenient for
short-term, short notice use, such as to launch satellites to monitor
sudden natural disasters or to broadcast sports events.

[I couldn't find the article on the PD English site.]

"Compared with powerful launch vehicles that use liquid fuel, the
solid-fuel launch vehicle, popularly known as Pioneer I
[Kaituozhe-1], requires much less preparation time to launch, and
is much easier to operate," the spokesman said.

It takes 12 hours or less to prepare for the launch of a satellite
using the Pioneer I rocket, whereas about three months are needed
to prepare the traditional liquid-fuel launch vehicle, including the
time for shipping, installation and testing, and filling it with
liquid fuel.

The Pioneer I also can be launched from a mobile pad, the spokesman
said.

[I couldn't find the article on the PD English site.]

Paolo Ulivi provided
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/20...4_124850.shtml