[FPSPACE] China's Shenzhou VIII launch

[Geert Sassen]

I made exactly the same remark already on a FB post, it seemed to take
ages before the thing cleared the tower, maybe even slower then some
of the Saturn V launches and definitely far slower then Shuttle or
Soyuz..
At first I thought the video was slow-motion of something, but judging
by the exhaust it seems like it was more or less normal speed. That's
certainly one very heavily loaded rocket..

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Edwin Cameron <nodin at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> The local news just aired a short clip of the Shenzhou 8 launch.  Launch
> tower clearnce seemed to take a long time.  It appared to me that lift-off
> acceleration relative to gravity was very low, perhaps indicating that the
> payload was near or at the maximum capability of the Long March-2F/H.  If
> the video clip was played at a real time playback rate, not slow motion, the
> ratio looked to be on the order of 1.2 or lower.  Anyone know the
> lift-off thrust to mass ratio?
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