China's Space Program News Thread

[kyanges]

Re: china manned space - news and views

Some small titbit about using the song "America the Beautiful" for the CGI clip describing the Tiangong 1 mission. I don't really have an opinion on the matter, but I thought I would post it here, since the reactions of my fellow forumites here is always interesting.

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[AssassinsMace]

Re: china manned space - news and views

Big Deal. What do they think? Secret subliminal messages. They think it's a cry for help for the US to save China? This is equivalent to badly translated street signs.

 

[Blitzo]

Re: china manned space - news and views

I'm not sure what's more irritating, the fact that CCTV chose to play any music over it at all or that western media recognized and is making a big deal of it..

Given half the articles about this launch were talking about its political significance and how it was just a move to boost prestige... well I'm not too surprised at the latter.

 

[Engineer]

Re: china manned space - news and views

Tiangong-1 launched.

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For those who have not seen the video of the launch yet, I recommend seeing it. They've installed a video camera beside the second stage's rocket engines this time, so you can see the engines working.

 

[Lion]

Re: china manned space - news and views

I'm not sure what's more irritating, the fact that CCTV chose to play any music over it at all or that western media recognized and is making a big deal of it..

Given half the articles about this launch were talking about its political significance and how it was just a move to boost prestige... well I'm not too surprised at the latter.

China launching of Tiangong 1 is so perfect and western can only nick at this small small issue. But I think its a bad taste from Chinese side for playing the America tune. I know they try to insult the American decline in space program by playing a tune on Chinese successful launching.

You can see how western media turning an insult into their mockery of China.

 

[broadsword]

Re: china manned space - news and views

The music means, "Your base belongs to us!".

 

[escobar]

Re: Chinese Satellites

China launches in 2011

01 - April 9 (2047:04.570UTC) - CZ-3A (Y19) - XSLC, LC3 - BeiDou-2 'Compass-I3'
02 - June 20 (1613:04.358UTC) - CZ-3B/E (Y20) - XSLC, LC2 - ZX-10 ZhongXing-10 (Chinasat-10)
03 - July 6 (0428:03.993UTC)- CZ-2C (Y25) - JSLC, SLS-2 - SJ-11 Shi Jian 11-03
04 - July 11 (1541:03.700UTC) - CZ-3C (Y8) - XSLC, LC2 - TL-1B Tian Lian-1B
05 - July 26 (2144:28.206UTC) - CZ-3A - XSLC, LC3 - BeiDou-2 'Compass-I4'
06 - July 29 (0742:03.570UTC) - CZ-2C (Y24) - JSLC, SLS-2 - SJ-11 Shi Jian 11-02
07 - August 11 (1615:04.434UTC) - CZ-3B/E (Y19) - XSLC, LC2 - PakSat-1R
08 - August 15 (2257:19.319UTC) - CZ-4B (Y14) - TSLC, LC2 - HY-2A Hai Yang-2A
FF - August 18 (0928:03.993UTC) - CZ-2C - JSLC, SLS-2 - SJ-11 Shi Jian 11-04
09 - September 18 (1633:04.621UTC) - CZ-3B (Y16)[/color] - XSLC, LC2 - ZX-1A ZhongXing-1A
10 - September 29 (1316:03.507UTC) - CZ-2F (T1) - JSLC - TG-1 TianGong-1

China launch schedule

2011

October 7 - CZ-3B/E - XSLC - Eutelsat-W3C
October (?) - CZ-3C - XSLC - Compass-G5
October (?) - CZ-2D - JSLC - Shiyan Weixing-4; Chuang Xin-3
October (?) - CZ-4B - TSLC - YG-12 YaoGan Weixing-12
November 8- 11K77 Zenit-3F - GIK-5, LC45 PU-1 - YH-1 Ying Huo-1*
November 1 - CZ-2F (Y8) - JSLC - SZ-8 ShenZhou-8
December 25 - CZ-3B/E - XSLC - NigComSat-1R
December (?) - CZ-4B - TSLC - ZY-3 Zi Yuan-3
December - CZ-2C - TSLC - HJ-1C Huan Jing-1C (or 2012)
December (or early 2012) - CZ-2C (?) - TSLC (?) (or CZ-2D from JSLC) - Gokturk-2
End - CZ-4B (?) - TSLC - ZY-1 Zi Yuan-1 (2C)
?? - CZ-3A - XSLC - Compass-I5
?? - CZ-3C - XSLC - Compass-G6
?? - CZ-2D (?) - JSLC (?) - YG-13 YaoGan Weixing-13
?? - ?? - ?? - HY-1C Hai Yang-1C (Probably delayed to 2012)
?? - ?? - ?? - HY-1D Hai Yang-1D (Probably delayed to 2012)
?? - ?? - ?? - Beijing-2

 

[RedMercury]

Re: china manned space - news and views

The media will have a field day with the "mistake", but it clearly is not a mistake. The message is very clear, to those smart enough to discern it.

 

[Blitzo]

Re: china manned space - news and views

The media will have a field day with the "mistake", but it clearly is not a mistake. The message is very clear, to those smart enough to discern it.

Lol... I'm not sure we can read that much into it...

 

[Centrist]

Re: china manned space - news and views

The media will have a field day with the "mistake", but it clearly is not a mistake. The message is very clear, to those smart enough to discern it.

It's a mistake. CCTV has a long and storied history of using inappropriate clips and sound bytes. CCTV is very unprofessional.