Op 18-10-2021 om 15:00 schreef Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l: > As it happens, the TLE that I posted above does also pass close to that place > (and a few tweaks to it would make it pass right over that place), so my point > that this could have been an orbital rather than suborbital flight that ended > after the first revolution still stands. Here is an updated proxy TLE for launch from Jiuquan: CHINA XPLANE launch 2021-07-16 00:00:00 UT 1 70000U 21999A 21197.00000000 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00 2 70000 041.0697 309.6773 0000760 097.7066 323.0526 16.27042732 04 This matches a landing at Badanjilin airport, a 2.4 km long runway at 39.2264 N, 101.5477 E, that seems to have been constructed recently as it is not present in Google Earth imagery from as recent as 2016. A map with the resulting 1-revolution orbital trajectory can be seen in this brief blogpost I just posted, "The Chinese space plane test of 16 July 2021: orbital, not suborbital?": https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-chinese-space-plane-test-of-16-july.html So I do think that the initial judgement that the July space plane test was 'suborbital', is mistaken and it was orbital after all. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org launchtower: http://launchtower.langbroek.org Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Oct 18 2021 - 09:42:45 UTC
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