Helsinki – China launched on Thursday that seems to be the third satellite for the most bounded, bounded for geosynchronous orbit.
A long March 3B rocket at 12:47 pm Eastern (1647 UTC) was removed from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southwest China on 10 April. The state -owned Chief International Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), a major hand of the CASC, announced the success of the lift within an hour of the lift.
The launch was estimated due to the airspace closure notice, but the payload was unknown until the SAST statement did not disclose the mission payload to the mission payload to satellite -15, or the Tongxin Zishu XI7 (TJS -17).
The SEST, who developed the satellite, stated that TJS-17 would be “mainly used to meet the multi-band, high-speed satellite communication technology verification.” It published neither images nor technical details of satellite after patterns for all previous TJ launch.
Broadly, the TJS series is mainly operated in the geostation class (GEO). It is seen as a potentially classified missions by Western analysts, including signal intelligence, early warning missions and satellite inspection activities to support the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). China now has 16 main TJS satellites, with no clear TJS-8 satellites.
The mission, however, appears to be associated with two recent launch: TJS-15, March 9, using March 3 from Xichang, and TJS-19 was launched via a long March 7A rocket-which was seen for aging of the kerosene-libid oxygen, all were seen to aging, 29 march, 29 march, 29 march, 29 march, 29 march, 29 march, All three.
The TJS-17 mission from Sast reflects the king of the north, one of the four heavenly kings; A set of Buddhist deities guard a cardinal direction in the world. TJS-15 and TJS-16 Mission Patch depicted the king of the west and the king of the east respectively. This indicates a potentially upcoming TJS mission to complete the astronomical quartet.
The TJS -15 is located around 90.3 degrees east, while TJS -16 is located about 152.5 degrees east.
China launched its first TJS satellite in 2015, which launched eight in the last 18 months. Notable missions include TJS -13, which was launched in December 2024, including two other Chinese satellites, Xiyan -10 (01) and Xiyan -10 (02), which was launched in a highly egg, Molnia -like class and TJS -3 in 2018, which released a commodity in 2018, which was later a stacker.
China launch scheme
The TJS-17 Mission was China’s 19th orbital launch of 2025. It follows the launch of four internet satellite test satellites on 1 April, and is launched on 6 March from Taiyuan Spaceport, which takes Tianing -3A (02) to Polar orbit.
China can target 100 or more launch in 2025, which may be run by increasing commercial activity, megaconstals projects, and new launcher development. Many new, medium-lifts and potentially re-purpose rockets are targeting the first flights this year. Two of these new, low -cost cargo spacecraft can take the spacecraft to Tiangong Space Station.
Major missions include Tianvan -2’s near -Earth asteroid sample returns and main belt comate rendezavas missions, which are expected to be launched around May, and the crew made Shenzo -20 and -21 missions to Tiangong.
