{"id":17435,"date":"2018-12-29T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2018-12-29T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:07:40","slug":"rocket-launches-chinese-long-march-2d-soyuz-2-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17435","title":{"rendered":"Rocket launches: Chinese Long March-2D + Soyuz-2.1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of launches by China and Russia finish out a busy year of global rocket traffic:<\/p>\n<p>** <strong>Chinese Long March-2D\/YZ-3<\/strong> (Chang Zheng-2D\/YZ-3) rocket launch today with six atmospheric environment research satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dl-rrz0bWDQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"China launches six Yunhai-2 satellites for atmospheric environment research - Xinhua | English.news.cn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2018-12\/29\/c_137707281.htm\">China launches six Yunhai-2 satellites for atmospheric environment research &#8211; Xinhua | English.news.cn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Long March 2D concludes 2018 campaign with Hongyan-1 launch \u2013 NASASpaceFlight.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2018\/12\/long-march-2d-20-hongyan-1-launch\/\">Long March 2D concludes 2018 campaign with Hongyan-1 launch \u2013 NASASpaceFlight.com<\/a> (NSF seems to have gotten the payload wrong.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>** <strong>Russian Soyuz-2.1a<\/strong> launched two remote sensing satellites plus 26 educational and commercial small satellites:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wTfPqDvlOnQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A Soyuz-2.1a (\u0421\u043e\u044e\u0437-2.1\u0430) launch vehicle, with a Fregat (\u0424\u0440\u0435\u0433\u0430\u0442) upper stage, launched the Kanopus-V \u21165 (\u041a\u0430\u043d\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0441-\u0412 \u2116 5) and Kanopus-V \u21166 (\u041a\u0430\u043d\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0441-\u0412 \u2116 6) remote sensing satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, on 27 December 2018, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTfPqDvlOnQ#\">02:07<\/a>\u00a0UTC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTfPqDvlOnQ#\">11:07<\/a>\u00a0local time). As secondary payloads, Soyuz-2.1a launched 26 small satellites: GRUS (Axelspace), Flock 3k (twelve Planet Labs Inc 3U Dove CubeSats), ZACube-2, Lume-1 cubesat, D-Star ONE (iSat), D-Star ONE (Sparrow), eight Lemur-class satellites (Spire Global Inc) and UWE-4 (W\u00fcrzburg University).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Soyuz 2-1A launches Kanopus-V pair and additional payloads \u2013 NASASpaceFlight.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2018\/12\/soyuz-2-1a-kanopus-v-pair-additional-payloads\/\">Soyuz 2-1A launches Kanopus-V pair and additional payloads \u2013 NASASpaceFlight.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Soyuz launches cluster of 28 satellites \u2013 Spaceflight Now\" href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2018\/12\/27\/soyuz-28-satellite-cluster-launch\/\">Soyuz launches cluster of 28 satellites \u2013 Spaceflight Now<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=83bcfeddf696d358f69568254bcd9ce9&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;node=172282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the Best Selling Electronics at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of launches by China and Russia finish out a busy year of global rocket traffic: ** Chinese Long March-2D\/YZ-3 (Chang Zheng-2D\/YZ-3) rocket launch today with six atmospheric environment research satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center &#8211; More at China launches six Yunhai-2 satellites for atmospheric environment research &#8211; Xinhua | English.news.cn Long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rocket launches: Chinese Long March-2D + Soyuz-2.1a<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4xd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17523,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17523","url_meta":{"origin":17435,"position":0},"title":"Rockets: SpaceX Falcon 9 launch &#038; landing + China Long March 3B launches comm-sat","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"** SpaceX on Friday launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB in California with 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. 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