Such a confidential matter, China's "secretly" launch of satellites at night, and it was tracked by the United States, and the orbital data, inclination angle, etc. are completely mastered, what is the situation?
Indeed, this makes many people a little surprised, that is, when our country carried out this mission, it never carried out any propaganda, and it can be said that the country is completely unaware of it, and there is almost no information.
As a result, the United States still knew, what is the situation?Let's take a closer look at this mission, which is also a bit surprising.
That's right, this mission can be said to be a bit special, China did not make any explanation, it is from China with the Long March 5 Yao-6 carrier rocket to carry out the mission.
When it comes to using the Long March 5 Yao-6 launch vehicle, everyone knows that this is a brand-new rocket in China, which belongs to the new product under the Long March 5, so it has been changed. For the first time on this rocket, China adopted a newly developed diameter of 52 meters, 18 meters highThe 5-meter fairing and the height of the whole arrow exceed all the Long March series launch vehicles in service, becoming the highest launch vehicle in China.
Of course, having a larger fairing means that our country can accommodate a larger payload on it, further improving the mission adaptability of the rocket, and providing important support for our country to carry out more tasks in the future.
Many people should also know that China's Long March 5 is very strong, and it still carries a lot of tasks, which can complete the launch of various spacecraft such as low-earth orbit satellites, geosynchronous transfer orbit satellites, sun-synchronous orbit satellites, space stations, lunar probes and Mars probes, and this time China is upgraded again, it may be for China's lunar project, or China's space station will carry out 3 cabins in the future, and upgrade to 6 cabins to pave the way. Therefore, the successful completion of the launch also shows that China's further upgrade of the Long March 5 has greatly improved its strength.
Moreover, the core stage of the Long March 5 carrier rocket uses a high-thrust hydrogen-oxygen engine, which is the most advanced cryogenic liquid rocket engine used in China.
And this time our country is executing at night (202312.15,21:41) and successfully launched the remote sensing 41 satellite, the satellite successfully entered the predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. This mission is the 502nd flight of the Long March family of launch vehicles.
However, what is surprising is that this mission can be said to be a "highly secret" thing, but it was tracked by the United States
Indeed, before the launch of the Long March 5 Yao-6 carrier rocket, China can be said to have never disclosed the matter, and even the news in China was "very little", basically no one heard about its launch, and there was no report.
And everyone knows that the Long March 5 Yao-6 launch vehicle is still based on issues such as engine testing last year, but I didn't expect China to launch again in a short period of time, so the speed of China's aerospace surprised many people, which is really too fast. However, is it really another leak of such a confidential matter?
Indeed, according to foreign media reports, under the implementation of this mission, it is clearly stated that China has sent a large "secret" optical satellite to geostationary orbit, but although it is said to be confidential, the US Space Force still observed it.
Although China's space center disclosed that this was the launch of a remote sensing satellite, it did not provide images or further details, but only described it as a simple "optical remote sensing satellite", and said that the remote sensing satellite No. 41 is a high-orbit optical remote sensing satellite, which is mainly used in the fields of land census, crop yield estimation, environmental management, meteorological early warning and forecasting, and comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation, and can provide information services for national economic construction.
But they don't think so, say - outside observers assess that the remote sensing series of satellites will be designated for military purposes. The "classified" nature of the mission suggests that the remote sensing 41 satellite had at least a partial military use, and at the same time, the U.S. Space Force's space domain awareness recorded the spacecraft at 195 x 35,815 kilometers at an inclination of 1951 degrees on track. It can be said that he is completely familiar with China's "secret" launch of satellites at night.
It is also believed that the successful launch has enhanced China's growing in-orbit remote sensing capabilities. If the satellite-41 were to be in a geostationary orbit about 35,786 kilometres above the equator, it would maintain a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface, which would allow it to make continuous observations of the same geographical area, and this vantage point would also allow it to continuously observe about one third of the Earth's surface.
So, anyway, they think that China's satellite strength is very strong, why does the United States knowCould it be a leak?
In fact, it can also be seen from the above that they also said that this mission carried out by China is very secret, which means that they do not know about it at all and do not know about it. But after the launch of the mission in our country, they will know for sure.
Moreover, as a satellite, many people should have seen that the US Space Force has to "code" and then track and identify, and the United States has large-scale reconnaissance satellites, which is not a difficult thing for the United States, so don't worry about anything, and, if they really knew about it a long time ago, it would have been explained what satellites China launched.
Therefore, it may be that China announced that it knew about it, and the United States only knew about the tracking of orbital data, and only knew about the problem of the satellite, but it can only be said that what China has done is indeed secret, and if the Long March 5 carried out other space station, moon and other missions, it would have been announced a long time ago.
Moreover, this mission may be so secret, and there is still such a problem, that is, the new version of the Long March 5 is being tested, and there is not much to say.
But everyone sees that the United States is tracking so strongly, and it is indeed necessary to worry, but as long as China sends **, the United States will track it sooner or later, but they don't know what China will use these satellites for, and they can only guess, this is the general situation.
Generally speaking, China's aerospace development momentum in recent years has been very strong, and the United States is even worried that China will suppress the United States and become the world's largest space power.
But having said that, there is no competition problem that the United States has said, China has always adopted the model of openness, cooperation, and common development, so any country in the world can cooperate with China, so in retrospect, if the United States cooperates with China, as long as there are no constraints, it is completely possible.
But obviously, the United States only wants to be strong on its own, not on the strength of others, and if it wants to cooperate, then this possibility is very low, so it is the most important thing to take its own space route and make itself stronger, no matter how other countries track and identify, it doesn't matter.