[amsat-bb] Re: XW-1?

[Andrew Glasbrenner]

herr at ridgenet.net wrote:
> Wondering if XW-1 was launched. I saw that China has just launched the
> Yaogan 7 Remote-Sensing Satellite. The launcher, orbit, etc looks right
> and is pretty close to the previously stated 20Dec data. Any updates out
> there?
> 73
> Mike WA6ARA
>   
Not quite yet. The Yaogan launch was from a different facility and on a 
different vehicle. I have seen a few posts on space forums rumoring that 
the launch may be next week sometime. It is supposed to launch on a 
CZ-2C from Taiyuan.

Frequency and other information can be found at: 
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=116&retURL=satellites/futures.php

73, Drew KO4MA