Long March 2D | Xihe (CHASE)

Name: Long March 2D | Xihe (CHASE)
Start: 2021-10-14T10:51:00.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 2D · Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's 338th launch · 34th this year · humanity's 6,135th orbital launch attempt

October 14, 2021Add to calendar

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The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Oct 14, 10:44 – Oct 14, 11:12 UTC

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Xihe (CHASE)

Xihe, also known as the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the satellite is an Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS), which can, for the first time, acquire full-disk spectroscopic solar observations in the Hα waveband. It will complement the observations by on-orbit solar spacecraft (such as SDO, IRIS, STEREO and PSP), as well as future solar missions of the Solar Orbiter and the Chinese Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S). Mission is named Xihe after a solar deity from Chinese mythology.

Heliophysics · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

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Long March-2D launches Xihe and 10 small satellites — SciNews

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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 10/14/2021 · source
Added launch per NOTAMs and public reports - note high uncertainty of assigning payload/rocket with the specific launch notice.
Cosmic_Penguin · 10/12/2021 · source

Pad — Launch Complex 9

78 launches from this pad · 157 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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