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	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		JSLC is usually used to launch vehicles into lower and medium orbits with large orbital inclination angles, as well as testing medium to long-range missiles.
		The facilities and launch support equipment were likely modelled on Soviet counterparts and the Soviet Union, at least in the early 1960s, may have provided technical support to Jiuquan.
		The launch center has been the focus of many of China's successful ventures into space, including their first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 in 1970, and their first manned space mission Shenzhou 5 on October 15, 2003.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center (265 words)

	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
		Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a launch center for scientific, technical and experimental satellites.
		Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has turned the desert zone, in which it is located, into an eco-friendly city, where flowers, grass and other plants thrive in late autumn.
		At a mean elevation of 1,000 meters, the Jiuquan launch center is mainly used to send experimental and applications satellites that are on the lower and medium orbits with large orbital inclination angles.
	www.travellodge.info /cityattraction/jiuquan-satellite-center.htm (152 words)

	Jiuquan
		Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, situated at 100 degrees East, 41 degrees North, is located in the Jiuquan Region, Gansu province, north-western China.
		Jiuquan was originally used to launch scientific and recoverable satellites into medium or low earth orbits at high inclinations.
		The Launch Center was located at 100 deg 17.4' E, 40 deg 57.4' N at an elevation of 1073 m.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/jiuquan.htm (3363 words)

	Chinese Defence Today :: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre (Base 20) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jiuquan was originally used to test launch China's Dongfeng (DF) series surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, and then from 1970 it was used to launch scientific and recoverable satellites into medium or low earth orbits at high inclinations.
		Jiuquan region has a typical inland climate, which is mainly dry and sunny, with annual average temperature of 8.7 degree.
		Mobile Launch Pad - The mobile launch pad is used for launch vehicle vertical integration and checkouts in BLS, transporting the launch vehicle/spacecraft from BLS to the launch area vertically, and locking itself beside the umbilical tower.
	www.sinodefence.com /space/facility/jiuquan.asp (1336 words)

	Backgrounder: China's three major space launch bases__English_SINA.com
		In line with the common international practice, all the three launch centers are located in scarcely-populated areas where the terrain is even and the field of vision is broad.
		At a mean elevation of 1,000 meters, the Jiuquan launchcenter is mainly used to send experimental and applications satellites that are on the lower and medium orbits with large orbital inclination angles.
		The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, situated in Kelan County of north China's Shanxi province, was founded in March 1966 and put into normal operation in 1968.
	english.sina.com /1/2005/1010/48668.html (434 words)

	Satellite Launch Centers
		Founded in 1958 in Gansu Province, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center was the country's earliest base and where most launches and tests have been conducted.
		The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, situated in Kelan County of north China's Shanxi Province, was founded in March 1966 and came into full operation in 1968.
		May 10, 1999: launch of March 4th II carrier rocket carrying one weather satellite and one experimental satellite (the center's seventh successful launch of two satellites on one rocket in a row).
	www.china.org.cn /english/SPORT-c/77178.htm (1092 words)

	Shenzhou 5
		It was launched at 09:00 (UTC +8) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a launch base in the Gobi Desert in Gansu Province, entering orbit 343 km above Earth at 09:10 (UTC +8) with astronaut Yang Liwei (杨利伟), the 38 year-old Lieutenant Colonel in the People's Liberation Army and former fighter pilot.
		The launch of the Shenzhou is the result of a manned space program which began in 1992.
		Neither the launch nor the reentry was televised live, and it is widely believed that it was due to government fears that a disaster could create an embarrassment, but the time of both launch and reentry launch had been widely announced beforehand, and news appeared on Chinese Central Television within minutes after both events.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shenzhou_5.html (658 words)

	Jiuquan, China's Cape Canaveral. -- ThingsAsian Article
		Jiuquan is where China is expected to launch its second manned spacecraft, Shenzhou VI, on a five-day mission in the second half of next year.
		The center of China's secretive space program, Jiuquan is conveniently located in splendid isolation in the country's arid northwest straddling the border of Gansu province and Inner Mongolia region.
		Jiuquan is so secret that even the people formally in charge, the leaders of Gansu province, have little control over what happens, and just as little information.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2918.html (843 words)

	China's satellite launch center brings green benefits
		The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has turned the desert zone where it is built into an eco- friendly city where flowers, grass and other plants thrive in late autumn.
		The center launched the ecological improvement efforts on the chance that the State Council added the site to a state-level management project of the Heihe River that flows through the area.
		The center invested heavily in building three separate zones - the launch technological zone, the red willow and poplar zone, and the urban zone - to form a desert city with unique scenery and a pleasant environment.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-10/12/content_271100.htm (284 words)

	New launch pad built at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
		At 3:20 pm on November 3, China's 18th recoverable scientific and technological experiment satellite was successfully launched into the space orbit from a newly built launching pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
		The new launching pad is a "testing and launching tower" which incoperates the functions of hoisting, docking, testing, injecting and launching of rocket carriers.
		On the launching pad, there are more than 40 testing working rooms and sealed space so as to provide an all weather testing and preparation conditions for scientific and technical workers.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/news/2003/space-031231-pla-daily02.htm (206 words)

	Space Today Online - Chinese astronauts called yuhangyuans fly in Shenzhou capsules
		Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in the northwestern province of Gansu.
		Shenzhou spacecraft are blasted off from the isolated Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest Gansu province in the Gobi Desert a thousand miles west of the capital city of Beijing.
		Launches and landings from Jiuquan occur during northern hemisphere autumn and winter months (southern hemisphere spring and summer) because the seas are calmer then for the Yuanwang tracking ships stationed on oceans around the world.
	www.spacetoday.org /China/ChinaTaikonauts.html (3578 words)

	spacetoday.net: China launches science satellite
		The satellite, likely to be designated FSW-19, was described as the "19th recoverable science experimental satellite".
		The launch of the mission was not announced beforehand.
		The launch was the third Chinese mission so far this year; the previous two also used the medium-class Long March 2C booster.
	www.spacetoday.net /Summary/2529 (161 words)

	SPACE.com -- Shenzhou 6 Away! China Launches Two Astronauts in Second Manned Spaceflight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		China launches its second manned spacecraft Shenzhou-6 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province at 9:00 a.m.
		Before today’s successful launch, the non-profit Association of Space Explorers (ASE), which is populated by past and present astronauts and cosmonauts, issued an invitation to China’s professional space flyers - though the United Nations - to take part in their organization.
		Launch and land on a weightless flight from NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 5.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/051011_china_shenzhou6_lnch.html (1166 words)

	USATODAY.com - China allows rare look at top-secret launch center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JIUQUAN, China — China, a rising space power, provided a rare look into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, promoting the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to the nation's growing prosperity.
		It was the first time China let foreign journalists enter, although officials forbade photographs of the command-and-control center with its rows of computer screens or the mammoth assembly hall where workers built the spacecraft that lifted China's first astronaut into orbit last October.
		Located on a sprawling 1,900 square miles, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is an island of technological achievement in one of the country's poorest regions.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2004-09-01-china-space-center_x.htm?csp=36 (612 words)

	China to launch space station modules at Jiuquan center (10/24/03)
		The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which sent China's first manned spacecraft into the orbit early this month, is capable of launching modules of space stations in the future, says a senior official at the center.
		Some facilities at the center as well as the propellant of the rocket might need to be upgraded however, said Yu Jianping, deputy designer-in-chief of the launch center system and director of the Beijing Special Engineering Design Institute.
		The center was world-class and could be used to launch a 10-ton module of space station after the upgrading.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/xw/t39712.htm (247 words)

	ABC News: Chinese Crew Blasts Off for Space Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		China successfully launched its second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI at the launch center Wednesday morning.
		JIUQUAN, China Oct 12, 2005 — A rocket carrying two Chinese astronauts blasted off Wednesday from a base in China's desert northwest, returning the country's manned space program to orbit two years after its history-making first flight.
		It is only the third country to launch a human into orbit on its own, after Russia and the United States.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/wireStory?id=1205655&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (406 words)

	China space mission said planned for Oct. - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		China's second manned space mission _ and its first to carry two astronauts _ is due to launch on Oct. 13, 2005, almost two years since its first manned launch, a state media report said.
		The launch of Shenzhou VI is scheduled for 11 a.m.
		It said midday was chosen as the launch time to improve safety and allow launch personnel enough time for final preparations, unlike some past unmanned missions that pushed off in the night and pre-dawn hours.
	www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2005/09/26/china_space_mission_said_planned_for_oct (625 words)

	CBS News \| China Reveals Secret Space Center \| September 6, 2004 20:54:49
		Jiuquan emerges as a heavily irrigated oasis of greenery amid the spartan Gobi Desert, with lush lawns and shady trees.
		The center's Dongfeng Aerospace City — home to 150,000 people, mostly scientists and their families — is a self-contained community complete with bank, post office, movie theater, swimming center and fast food.
		The space center may be a world apart, but this corner of western China is anxious to be part of the economic boom that is transforming the nation's east-coast cities.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/02/tech/main640460.shtml (944 words)

	GIS News: China to launch space station modules
		The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which put China's first manned spacecraft onto the orbit early this month, is capable of launching modules of space stations in the future.
		Some facilities at the center as well as the propellant of the rocket might need to be upgraded however, said Yu Jianping, deputydesigner-in-chief of the launch center system and director of the Beijing Special Engineering Design Institute.
		The center was world-class and could be used to launch a 10-tonmodule of space station after the upgrading.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_srhmjqid (267 words)

	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre
		Jiuquan (also known in the West as Shuang Cheng Tzu) is located in western Gansu Province in northwest China (41.10° N, 100.30° E).
		This is where all recoverable and most science satellites are launched, including the Shenzhou.
		Jiuquan is limited to southeastern launches in the 57-70° range so as to avoid overflight of Russia and Mongolia.
	www.worldspaceflight.com /china/jiuquan.htm (104 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Successful launch of Shenzhou-6 hailed in China
		Wen, who was on hand at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China during the launch, was present at the send-off ceremony early in the morning for the two astronauts aboard the spacecraft.
		The premier said at the launch center that the Shenzhou-5 carrying Yang Liwei to the space two years ago had turned China's space dream into reality.
		The launch of Shenzhou-6 spacecraft atop a Long March II F carrier rocket on Wednesday morning is the 46th success of China's space launch, and the 88th liftoff of Long March series.
	english.people.com.cn /200510/13/eng20051013_214104.html (552 words)

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	www.muztagh.com /jiuquan/links.htm (103 words)

	MyUSTINET News: China Launches Research Satellite
		Officials from the Xi'an Satellite Measuring and Control Center said the payload from the Long March 2-D carrier rocket entered a preset orbit approximately 10 minutes after launch.
		The satellite is "expected to return in a few days, after accomplishing its mission", Xinhua said.
		The launch was the 80th for the Long March line of rockets designed by the Shanghai Space Institute, part of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Group.
	news.usti.net /newsstory/tw.space/2/wed/bg/Uchina-satlaunch.Rsg6_ESR.html (179 words)

	China's space-launch desert town takes center stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Once a remote patch of land, the new launch pad for China's first manned space mission is a Gobi desert oasis -- complete with rocket-shaped streetlights, lush boulevards and restaurants where scientists snack and talk of the stars.
		Glimpses of Jiuquan, a town in northwestern China, were splashed across state-controlled newspapers Sunday as a full-on propaganda blitz began and communist leaders counted the hours to the moment they have planned and anticipated for a decade.
		Jiuquan, near an ancient, crumbling section of the Great Wall, has been a center of space research since 1958, when Mao Zedong ran China and his insular approach to governing made sure the country was far behind the Soviet Union and the United States in what was then called the "space race."
	snurl.com /2nhf (554 words)

	China Confirms Manned Flight Launch Next Week
		The Xinhua news agency cited an unnamed official in charge of the country's manned spaceflight program as saying Shenzhou V will blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest between October 15 and 17.
		Xinhua is reportedly one of only three media being given access to the launch, along with the mouthpiece People's Daily and China Central Television, which is expected to broadcast the historic event live.
		China has appeared caught in a dilemma over the imminent launch as it tries to balance the secretive needs of its military with the overwhelming propaganda mileage and national pride that would accrue with a successful mission.
	www.rense.com /general42/cfn.htm (618 words)

	China showcases space program in rare visit to top-secret launch center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity.
		Located on a sprawling 2,000 square miles, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is an island of technological achievement in one of the country's poorest regions.
		The center's Dongfeng Aerospace City -- home to 150,000 people, mostly scientists and their families -- is a self-contained community complete with bank, post office, movie theater, swimming center and fast food.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/01/financial1133EDT0085.DTL (888 words)

	China Successfully Reenters Spacecraft
		The vehicle was launched with the new generation "Long March 2-F" rocket at 6:30 a.m.
		Saturday from the new Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, China's third rocket launch center.
		China has launched nearly 300 satellites since the early 1970s, some 25 for commercial use, while 16 out of 17 retrievable Chinese satellites have successfully returned to earth intact.
	www.spacewar.com /news/china-99n.html (811 words)

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