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Payloads for LM6 Flight 1?

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Do we have any information on whether any (or all?) of the payloads listed in the long list in the table were actually successfully deployed, and if so, if they became operational? What are the orbital parameters of the sats? How long are they expected to remain in orbit? What was the purpose of (any of) the sats? How large was each (or any) sat? Etc. Cheers. N2e (talk) 14:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hmmm......it's a long story. I think most of the satellites have been deployed, though there might be one or two that may have still been attached to their "mother satellites" and won't deploy until later. Alas, info is very sparse (even more so in English) so I don't think I can nail down which is which.

Orbital parameters can be found via NORAD data (650 km SSO IIRC), but since NORAD can't even pinpoint which satellite is which until very recently, I would suggest not to list them here, particularly when none of the other articles here list such details. Heck, it took me and others quite a long time after launch to even confirm the identity of each of the 20 satellites!

I wish I could have added the details of what the satellites do, or what their sizes are, but info about them is probably too little to be added in this article (and almost 100% of them are in Chinese). Such is the problem of writing about Chinese spaceflight here when the Chinese are being mum about spaceflight things (remember, we almost don't know anything about the development of this rocket!) Even if I could gather up enough info, I think it would be better to open up new articles for each satellite (or one page for a satellite series) rather than adding them here.

Unfortunately, until the Chinese releases more info, I think the current article is almost as good as it can be. Galactic Penguin SST (talk) 16:04, 3 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Boosted variant - with 4 x the SSO payload

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

How will they boost the SSO payload by a factor of 4 ? Any sources for even the intention ? - Rod57 (talk) 10:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

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