The name "Jian Bing" (which means "pathfinder") was originally applied to
the Chinese satellites in the FSW series which were _primarily_
photoreconnaissance. From memory the FSW series were JB-1, -2A and -2B,
although it is not clear exactly which series JB-1 and JB-2A relate to.
Maybe the FSW-0, 5-day FSW-1 and 8-day FSW-1 respectively. But not all of
these FSWs were JB satellites - only those which were primarily
photoreconnaissance.
USSPACECOM called the first ZY-2 "FSW-3 1" which seems to be a muddle with
the JB designator. I would guess that they knew that ZY-2 would be a
photoreconnaissance mission and gave it the wrong name: FSW of course
implies a _recoverable_ satellite, which ZY-2 is not.
BTW, China announced the launch time as being the equivalent of 03.17 GMT,
not 03.11 GMT.
Phillip Clark
------------------------------------------------------------------
Phillip S Clark Molniya Space
Consultancy
Flat 2 Wellington House
Castle Hill Passage
Hastings
East Sussex TN34 1PG
Publisher - Worldwide Satellite Launches
The only way to comprehend what
politicians say and do is to make the
basic assumption that their brains were
surgically removed before they
entered politics. (My own philosophy)
------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe'
in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org
http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Oct 27 2002 - 04:00:59 EST