Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Beidou 6

 2009-018A


On Apr 14 China launched the second "second generation" ('erdai') Beidou navigation satellite, COMPASS-G2 or 'er ke Beidou Daohang Weixing' using the CZ-3C (Chang Zheng sanhao bing) launch vehicle. The satellite was initially placed in geostationary transfer orbit; by Apr 29 it was apparently station in geostationary orbit, with no intermediate tracking available. However, the satellite appears never to have made stationkeeping maneuvers and slowly drifted off station. On 2010 Sep 8 its orbital period was adjusted to move it further out of synchroncity.

The first four Beidou were called 'Beidou Daohang Shiyan Weixing', or Beidou Navigation Test Satellite; the most recent two are the operational 'Beidou Daohang Weixing'.


Beidou DW2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2009 Apr 14  1616  Launch by CZ-3C  XSC 
  T+2:07? Booster sep 
  T+2:27? St 1 sep 
  T+3:52? Fairing sep
  T+5:32? St 2 sep 
  T+5:32? St 3 MES-1 
 1626  T+10:31? MECO-1  210? x 450? x 28.5? 
 1637? T+21:21? MES-2 
 1640? T+24:20? MECO-2  
 1642? Stage 3 sep 
2009 Apr 14    632.51 209 x 35850 x 20.54 
2009 Apr 15    632.63 209 x 35856 x 20.53 
2009 Apr 29    1436.08 35774 x 35798 x 1.0 GEO 84.6E 
2009 Jun 11    1436.19 35777 x 35799 x 0.8 GEO 84.2E+0.03W/d 
2010 Jan 20    1436.38 35772 x 35812 x 0.3 GEO 68.2E+0.2W/d 
2010 Jul 5    1435.80 35722 x 35838 x 0.1 GEO 65.8E+0.1E/d 
2010 Sep 2    1435.72 35671 x 35887 x 0.3 GEO 71.0E 
2010 Sep 8   Move out, drift 
2011 Mar 3    1435.63 35579 x 35975 x 0.7 GEO 120.6E 
2011 Apr 28    1436.06 35593 x 35978 x 0.8 GEO 124.8E 
2011 May   Move out, drift 
2012 Nov 13    1435.84 35538 x 36024 x 2.1 GEO 21.6E 

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