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	Xichang Satellite Launch Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) (Chinese: 西昌卫星发射中心; pinyin: Xīchāng Weìxīng Fāshè Zhōngxīn) is a Chinese facility approximately 64 km northwest of Xichang City in Sichuan Province.
		The facility became operational in 1984 and is primarily used to launch powerful thrust rockets and geostationary communications and weather satellites.
		XSLC'S Technical Center is state of the art and is fully equipped for testing and integration of the payload and launch vehicle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xichang_Satellite_Launch_Center (203 words)

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center (260 words)

	Xichang - Chinese Space Facilities
		Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) is situated in Xichang, Sichuan Province, south-western China.
		The launch pad is at 102.0 degrees East and 28.2 degrees North.
		This launch center is suitable for the launch of various kinds of satellites, such as broadcasting, communications and meteorological satellites, into geostationary orbits using Long March launch vehicles.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/world/china/xichang.htm (517 words)

	LAUNCH SERVICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The coordinates of the launch pad are 102.0 degree E and 28.2 degree N. The climate of Xichang Region is subtropical type and the average temperature is 16 degree C. Ground wind in this region is generally very mild in all seasons.
		Xichang Airport is situated in the northern suburbs of Xichang, which is 13.5 km from the down town and 50km from the launch site.
		Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) is the earliest launch centers.
	cgwic.com /launch/center.htm (689 words)

	Satellite Launch Centers
		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).
		Xichang has two launch pads: one for the launch of geostationary communications satellites and meteorological satellites by Long March CZ-3 rockets and the other for the lift-off of Long March CZ-2 strap-on launch vehicle and the Long March CZ-3 series rockets.
		November 15, 2003: launch of the China-made Zhongxing-20 satellite.
	www.china.org.cn /english/SPORT-c/77178.htm (1092 words)

	Space Today Online - space rocket launch sites around the world
		The busiest spaceports are Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, Baikonur, Plesetsk, Kourou, Tanegashima, Jiuquan, Xichang and Sriharikota.
		The Alcantara Launch Center, on the Atlantic coast of Brazil outside Sao Luis, launches the VLS rocket.
		The satellite was the 3rd stage of a three-stage rocket in a launch from Al-Anbar.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/Spaceports/LaunchSites.html (6207 words)

	Xichang
		Xichang Satellite Launch Centre is situated in Xichang, Sichuan Province, south-western China.
		The first test launch of a DFH-3 by a CZ-3A launch vehicle was successful in attaining the proper transfer orbit, but during the subsequent manoeuvres to achieve geostationary orbit, the DFH-3 failed due to a malfunction of the satellite on-board propulsion system.
		The satellite was positioned at 132 deg E prior to the failure.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/xichang.htm (2380 words)

	China successfully launches "Probe No.1"(12/30/03)
		China launched a high-altitude orbiting satellite into the preset orbit successfully on December 30 morning, using a Long March 2C/SM carrier rocket, according to witnesses at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
		The satellite had enteredan orbit with a perigee of 555 kilometers and an apogee of 78,051 kilometers, and at a gradient of 28.5 degrees.
		The launch was the 75th flight of the Long March carrier rocketand also the 33rd consecutive success of the Long March series of carrier rocket since October 10, 1996.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/gyzg/t57273.htm (396 words)

	Long March 2C User's Manual
		There are processing buildings for satellites and launch vehicles and buildings for hazardous operations and storage in the technical center.
		Two launch complexes are available in the launch center, Launch Complex #1 for LM-3 and LM-2C, and Launch Complex #2 for LM-3A, 3B and 3C as well as LM-2E.
		It is mainly used for the launches of LEO satellites by LM-2C and LM-2E.
	www.fas.org /spp/guide/china/launch/lm2c/2C_Chapter1.htm (695 words)

	China's three major space launch bases
		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 launch center is mainly used to send experimental and applications satellites that are on the lower and medium orbits with large orbital inclination angles.
		At an average elevation of 1,500 meters, the center is known for its agreeable weather and picturesque scenes.
	www2.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-10/15/content_272334.htm (406 words)

	lnews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		China launched a high-altitude orbiting satellite into the preset orbit successfully Tuesday morning, using a Long March 2C/SM carrier rocket, according to witnesses at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
		The satellite had entered an orbit with a perigee of 555 kilometers and an apogee of 78,051 kilometers, and at a gradient of 28.5 degrees.
		The launch was the 75th flight of the Long March carrier rocket and also the 33rd consecutive success of the Long March series of carrier rocket since October 10, 1996.
	www.shenzhen.gov.cn /english/news/fnews/200312300026.htm (401 words)

	China launches scientific satellite
		The first of two scientific satellites known as Double Star was blasted off into orbit early this morning from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Southwest China.
		The "equatorial" satellite will be followed by a polar-range satellite (Probe-2), which is scheduled to be launched in June from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in North China's Shanxi Province, according to Zhang.
		By combining the Double Star satellites and the mini-flotilla of four identical spacecraft the European agency launched in 2000 in its Cluster II Programme, scientists will for the first time in history be able to probe space from a six-dimensional perspective, Liu said.
	www2.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-12/30/content_294385.htm (509 words)

	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心) is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) in the Gobi desert in Gansu Province located about 1,600 km from Beijing.
		Jiuquan is usually used to launch vehicles into lower and medium orbits, as well as medium- to long-range missiles.
		The launch center has been the focus of many of China's successful ventures into space, including their first satellite Dongfanghong 1 in 1970, and their first manned space mission Shenzhou 5 on October 15, 2003.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center (145 words)

	Space Today Online - China explores the Moon
		It would be launched on a Long March 3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's southwestern Sichuan Province.
		It would be launched toward the Moon on a Long March 3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
		The satellite's 24 science sensors include a gamma ray spectrometer, an X-ray spectrometer, a microwave remote sensor, the 3D camera, an instrument to record the lunar spectrum, and an instrument to measure solar high-energy particles and solar wind ions.
	www.spacetoday.org /China/ChinaMoonflight.html (1715 words)

	China striving to launch satellite to orbit moon in late 2006
		According to the design, the satellite system consists of a satellite platform and payload, which will be based on China's Dongfanghong 3 satellite platform and payload and other mature satellite technology.
		The satellite will be 2,350 kg in weight with 130 kg of payload, and will orbit the moon for one year.
		The satellite would obtain three-dimensional images of the lunar surface, analyze the content of useful elements and materials, and probe the depth of the lunar soil and the space environment between the earth and the moon.
	www.chinaembassy.org.il /eng/xwdt/t159110.htm (691 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: China's satellite launch center posed dangers 07/19/98
		The searing assessment of China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center was written by an engineer for the satellite consortium Intelsat, according to White House officials.
		The assessment portrays China's launch center as ``a make-do kind of place'' that was poorly equipped and manned by under-trained workers.
		U.S. satellite makers were aware of these problems before committing their costly equipment to China for launch, Lilienstein wrote, but apparently accepted the risk because of the lower overall cost of Chinese commercial launchers.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/071998/tec_124-5885.shtml (830 words)

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		China, organization, includes a tracking station and is China's central satellite tracking and control center to monitor satellites and control the satellite launch.
		Founded in 1970 and located in Mianning County of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, is the biggest launching center opened to the outside world.
		Founded in 1970 and located in Mianning County of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is the biggest launching center opened to the outside world.
	www.spacecraftnames.info /x.html (591 words)

	Gansu Provincial Bureau for Foreign Expert Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
		At an average elevation of 1,500 meters,the center is known for its agreeable weather and picturesque scenes.
		The Xichang center has two launch pads: one for the launch of geostationary communications satellites and meteorological satellites by Long March CZ-3 rockets and the other for the lift-off of Long March CZ-2 strap-on launch vehicle and the Long March CZ-3 series rockets.
	gansu.caiep.org /project_en/content.php?id=1324 (392 words)

	China Launches Another Mini-Satellite
		Launched on a Long-March 2-C carrier rocket, the mini-satellite has entered into its scheduled orbit.
		The launch aims to test some new satellite technologies and survey and monitor land, resources and the geographical environment on a trial basis.
		China will launch a small scientific experimental satellite sometime between Nov. 18 to 20 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, a Chinese aerospace expert said Wednesday.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/china-04zzzh.html (189 words)

	China to Launch Another Satellite for HK Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He said same type of rocket would be used to launch the satellite from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
		The satellite platform, developed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, is a new generation type of universal platform for international communications market, said the spokesman.
		A spokesman for China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said the flight is the 84th successful flight of China's Long-March launch vehicle since its maiden voyage in 1970, and the 42nd consecutive successful flight since October of 1996.
	www.eol.cn /20050414/3134163.shtml (340 words)

	China's Long March Rocket Launcher Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In August 1992, the successful launch of the Australian Satellite-B1 carried the international reputation of the Long March rocket to a new height.
		Sichuan Province, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center is designed mainly to launch powerful-thrust rockets and geostationary satellites.
		The Xichang center has two launch pads: one for the launch of geostationary communications satellites and meteorological satellites by Long March-3 rockets and the other for the lift-off of Long March-2 strap-on launch vehicles and the Long March-3 series rockets.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_madeinchina/2005-04/06/content_67727_3.htm (377 words)

	China launches communication satellite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		China on Saturday launched a communication satellite into a preset orbit, atop a Long March 3 A carrier rocket from a launch center in southwest China.
		The launch is the 73rd by the country's Long March carrier rockets since 1970, and the 32nd consecutive successful launch since October 1996.
		Saturday's launch is the fourth within a month after China's first manned space flight on Oct. 15 and 16, the Oct. 21 launch of an earth resources satellite developed in cooperation with Brazil and a smaller satellite, and the Nov. 3 launch of a science satellite.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200311/15/eng20031115_128309.shtml (427 words)

	China to launch new experimental satellite (17/11/04)
		China will launch a small scientific experimental satellite sometime between Nov. 18 to 20 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, a Chinese aerospace expert said on Nov. 17.
		The launch aims to test the technology of the satellite and conduct survey and monitoring of the land and resources and geographical environment on a trial basis.
		Named "Experimental Satellite No. 2," the satellite was developed by the Dongfanghong Satellite Company established by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and another Chinese space technology company.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/xw/t170488.htm (155 words)

	Double Star 2 (Tan Ce 2)
		Double Star 2 is a joint Chinese/European scientific satellite and is the final satellite of a six satellite constellation (four Cluster satellites and two Double Star satellites) which study the link between the solar wind and geomagnetic activity, and provide the most detailed, multi-dimensional view of the complex magnetosphere ever obtained.
		Double Star 1 was launched by a Long March rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on 29 December 2003.
		The four Cluster satellites were launched in 2000.
	www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk /2004/1August2004_22.html (629 words)

	Nigerian Satellite To Be Launched From Xichang Launch Center
		Nigerian Satellite To Be Launched From Xichang Launch Center
		China is expected to put a self-made communication satellite into orbit for Nigeria in 2007, making the African nation the first foreign buyer of both a Chinese satellite and its launching service.
		Describing the satellite export as a "milestone" in China's history in space, an official with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp said the satellite, called Dongfanghong 4, will be put into orbit by a Long March 3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Space Launch Centre in China's Southwest Sichuan Province sometime next year.
	www.sinodaily.com /news/china-05zn.html (459 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| China puts communications satellite into orbit
		EST; 1601 GMT Friday) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the Sichuan Province of southwest China.
		The launch marked the 73rd for a Long March vehicle since 1970, and the 32nd consecutive successful launch since October 1996.
		That was followed by the October 21 deployment of a remote sensing satellite and the November 3 launch of a recoverable science space platform.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0311/14china (357 words)

	news - Successful launch of Alcatel Apstar VI communications satellite from China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Apstar VI offers APT Satellite Holdings Limited (APT), a leading satellite operator in the Asia Pacific region, the capability to provide advanced broadband multimedia, new digital television services and traditional telecommunications services to telecom and television operators in the Asia Pacific region.
		Based on Alcatel Space Spacebus 4000 C1 platform, the Apstar VI high-powered and high capacity satellite is fitted with 38 C-band transponders and 12 Ku-band transponders.
		After the SINOSAT 1 satellite built by Alcatel Space for the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), launched in July 1998 and still in service, Apstar VI enhances the relationship between Alcatel Space and China further enhancing their cooperation.
	www.noticias.info /asp/PrintingVersionNot.asp?NOT=59403 (462 words)

	Photo
		On May 8th, 1997, China Orient and China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General signed the contract of launching service for "ChinaStar-1" satellite.
		Hao Weimin, Vice-Chairman of the Board and President of China Orient (from right) were in Mission Command Control Center of Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
		At 18:00 on May 30th, 1998, "ChinaStar-1" was launched successfully by Long March-3B in Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
	www.chinastar.com.cn /english/company/eventpt.html (347 words)

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