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Launch and Research Facilities

Last updated: February 23, 2000


 

Satellite Launch Center

Site Location Pad Mobile
Tower
Launcher First
Launch
Launches Comment
Jiuquan 40.6oN
99.9oE
3 1
(shared)
CZ-1
CZ-2
CZ-2C
CZ-2D
CZ-2F
FB-1
1970 29 China's first launch center. Limited to 57-70 inclination. All recoverable satellites and most science satellites are launched from Jiuquan. A new CZ-2F launch pad and a vertical assembly building for manned flight starts operation since 1999.
Xichang 28.25oN
102oE
2 1 CZ-2E
CZ-3
CZ-3A
CZ-3B
1984 28 Used for GTO launch. All GEO commercial satellites are launched from Xichang. It is the only site in China that supports cryogenic stage.
Taiyuan 37.5oN
112.6oE
1 0 CZ-2C/SD
CZ-4A
CZ-4B
1988 11 Used for SSO or polar orbit launch.

 

Control and Tracking Network

Facility Comment
Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center Responsible for organizing, commanding, dispatching of space flight test tasks, also undertakes the engineering TT&C and management of launch vehicle, spacecraft space flight test task.
Xi'an Satellite Control Center It manages China's spacecraft TT&C network which consists of the command and control center, fixed and mobile stations, instrumentation ships and re-entry instrumentation airplanes, and tracks and controls all China's domestic satellites
Domestic Tracking Station Tracking stations are all over China, especially in the belt zone from Xinjiang, Shichun to Fujian. Beijing and Nanjing Astronomical Observatory sometimes provide optics orbit observation, orbit calculation and re-entry prediction.
Overseas Tracking Staion A tracking station in south Pacific Republic of Kiribati began operation in late 1997
Tracking Ship Name Commi-
sioned
Displace-
ment
Equipment Comment
Yuan Wang 1 1979 (?) 10000+ t    
Yuan Wang 2 1979 (?) 10000+ t    
Yuan Wang 3 1995 18000 t    
Yuan Wang 4 1999     Former "Xiang Yang Hong 10"

 

Research and Engineering Facilities

Facility Comment
Wind Tunnels Subsonic wind tunnels
Trans-sonic wind tunnel (1.2m)
Supersonic wind tunnel (2.4m)
Hpersonic wind tunnel (1.0m)
High frequency plasma wind tunnel
Shockwave wind tunnel (2.0m)
Thermal Vacum Chamber The largest one in Asia. Construction
completed in late 1997.
Engine Testbed Multi-usage Engine Testbed
Large Engine Testbed (59x41x22m)
Cryogenic Engine Testbed
Simulated High Altitude Testbed
Full Scale Rocket Vabration Tower Built for Long March 2E
Beijing Emulation Center 11 Test Workshops.
Mathmatical system emulation or
Half-Real system emulation for
rocket development.
Centrifuge The largest in Asia. Used for
astronaunt training.
Other facilities Large Vertical Dynamic Equilibrator
Microwave Dark Rooms
Full Scale Rocket Test Firing Platform
Large Impact Testbed

 

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