[FPSPACE] 15 mins to go :Shenzhou 7

[Sven Grahn]

This is interesting! When we launched Freja from Jiuquan back in 1992 
the Chinese gave the launch time as 0620 UT - before the launch.
We thought that 0620:00 UT would be the lift-off time, but in reality 
it is the T=0 time. It then took 5 seconds until actual lift-off. Same 
period as for Shenzhou-7. It is basically the same rocket!

I watched on Sky and Xinhua. Nice transmission. Let us hope the EVA 
will be on live.

Sven

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Från: lissov-i at yandex.ru
Datum: 25-09-2008 16:32
Till: "Phillip Clark"<phillipclark at btinternet.com>
Kopia: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>, <humanspaceflight at yahoogroups.
com>, <seesat-l at satobs.org>, "John Locker"<john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk>
Ärende: Re: [FPSPACE] 15 mins to go :Shenzhou 7

Hi,

> If you checked the times as announced on TV with your computer clock 
you 
> would have noticed that there was a time delay of two minutes in 
the 
> pictures being broadcast.

The precise launch time was 13:10:04.988 UTC.

Igor Lissov

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