China Conducts Test of New Anti-Satellite Missile

some guy think it is failed when kkv head turned back and searched the target

 

the city list where people see the rocket:

Provence：city

Yunnan: Kunming / Simao / Yuxi / Lincang / Zhaotong / Qujing Honghe /
Sichuan： chengdu / Panzhihua
Guizhou： Guiyang Liupanshui Bijie.
Hubei： Wuhan Shiyan Xiangyang Yichang Shennongjia
Hunan： Changsha Yongzhou Yueyang Huaihua Xiangtan
Guangdong： Zhaoqing Jiangmen Guangzhou Zhanjiang Huizhou
Hainan： Haikou
Fujian： Fuzhou Zhangzhou
Guangxi： Nanning Beihai BaiseJiangxi Nanchang
Shanxi： Hanzhoung
Anhui： Mount Huangshan
Henan： Nanyang Luoyang Pingdingshan Zhoukou
Inner Mongolia. Hebei. Zhejiang. Jiangsu. Chongqing. Beijing. Hongkong. More... Etc

how can a sounding rocket fly so long

 

besides the rocket as guessed, may be them too whihc China has invested long ago:




The creation of such a system would make China THE ONLY country in the world
　　capable of successfully hitting satellites of global positioning systems,
　　such as the American GPS.

　　http://freebeacon.com/china-to-shoot-at-high-frontier/
　　http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_01_10/Third-testing-of-China-s-anti
　　http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50368590/ns/technology_and_science-sp

　　“If the United States loses the strategic high ground of high-earth orbit [
　　from a Chinese high-altitude ASAT missile], we are in real trouble,” said
　　one U.S. official.
　　U.S. Global Positioning System satellites, used for both navigation and
　　precision missile guidance, are located in medium-earth orbit, or about 12,
　　000 miles, and thus would be vulnerable to the new DN-2.

　　“Even a small scale anti-satellite attack in a crisis against 50 U.S.
　　satellites—assuming a mix of targeted military reconnaissance, navigation
　　satellites, and communication satellites—could have a catastrophic effect
　　not only on U.S. military forces, but on the U.S. civilian economy,” said
　　Pillsbury, currently with the Hudson Institute. Chinese military writings
　　also have discussed attacks on GPS satellites that are located in high-
　　earth
　　orbit, he stated.

　　American military specialists assume that the project called DN-2 is meant
　　for destroying satellites in high geostationary orbits (about 20 000 km).
　　The creation of such a system would make China the only country in the
　　world
　　capable of successfully hitting satellites of global positioning systems,
　　such as the American GPS.

　　Taking into account the high dependence of the US Air Force, the Navy and
　　many systems of weapons guiding, on the GPS signal, targeting such a system
　　can become an effective way of neutralizing the military superiority of the
　　USA.

 

Not missile, only a Sounding rocke-Kunpeng7, from 200KM to more than 10000KM, put Barium powder to make Artificial aurora, search by CAS

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“5月13日21时左右，我国科学家再次成功进行高空科学探测试验。本次试验利用高空探空火箭，通过朗缪尔 探针、高能粒子探测器、磁强计和钡粉释放实验装置等多种科学探测有效载荷，对电离层、近地空间的高能粒子和 磁场强度与结构进行了原位探测。

探空火箭是进行空间探测和科学试验的有效探测工具。利用探空火箭可以在高度方向探测大气各层结构成分和参数 ，研究电离层、地磁、宇宙线、太阳紫外线和X射线、陨尘等多种日-地物理现象。

此次试验在西昌卫星发射中心进行。经中科院国家空间科学中心初步分析表明，实验已获得了不同高度上空间环境 垂直分布的第一手科学数据，达到了预期目的，为我国进一步开展自主空间环境监测、保障空间活动安全积累了宝 贵的数据。”
Google trans
"21 o'clock on May 13, 2011, Chinese scientists have once again successfully test of high-altitude scientific exploration. This experiment the use of high-altitude sounding rockets, Langmuir probe, energetic particle detectors, magnetometers and barium powder release of experimental apparatus and other payload of scientific exploration, the ionosphere, the high-energy particles and magnetic fields of the near-Earth space strength and structure of the in situ detection.

Sounding rocket is effective detection tool for space exploration and scientific experiments. Using rockets and can detect the atmospheric layers of structural components and parameters in the height direction to study the ionosphere, geomagnetism, cosmic rays, the sun ultraviolet and X-ray, meteorite dust and other day - to physical phenomena.

The trial at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Preliminary analysis indicates that the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the experiment has obtained different heights on the space environment first-hand vertical distribution of scientific data, to achieve the desired purpose, for China to further develop its own space environment monitoring, to protect the safety of space activities has accumulated valuable data."

 

didn't some Chinese posters opened thread on the same "unidentified objects" which roamed for a long time and residents from various cities saw that??didn't think it was an ASAT..and what is described,I don't think its a successful launch as ASAt is just another ballistic missile which would vanish within a minute after launch..don't think it roams over various provinces..I thought it was a cruise missile..

 

Care to read the post above you before making uneducated guesses?

 

my bad..i commented against the first article..

 

China missile hit highest suborbital level since 1976: scientist

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China launched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to a U.S. scientist at Harvard University.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the rocket was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in western China, and China said the rocket carried a science payload which studied the earth's magnetosphere.

He said the rocket could possibly be used in the future to carry an anti-satellite payload on a similar trajectory, but there was no evidence to indicate the launch was intended to test such a capability.

China missile hit highest suborbital level since 1976: scientist

 

The ability to hit GPS satellites at around 20,000+ kms above sounds really interesting...

 

Most beautiful - a blue arrow tearing up the sky

 

Also, a messenger of death for American satellites

 

The Chinese officially release news report simply said more than 10,000 km, but read below what pentagon spokewoman told Airforce Magazine,

Airforce Magazine -- Chinese Anti-Satellite Test?

A Chinese space launch this week ostensibly for peaceful scientific research may actually have been a test of a new Chinese anti-satellite weapon, according to US press reports. China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported the May 13 launch of a high-altitude sounding rocket from southwestern China that was meant to investigate energy ions and magnetic fields in space. However, the mission was actually a test of the so called Dong Ning-2 missile that China could fire to attack a satellite, reported the Washington Free Beacon on May 14, citing US officials. The test reflects a significant advance in Chinese counterspace capabilities, claimed the Beacon. A Reuters report on Wednesday citing a US defense official made similar claims. Asked for comment, Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col Monica Matoush told the Daily Report on Wednesday: "We detected a launch on May 13 from within China. The launch appeared to be on a ballistic trajectory nearly to geosynchronous Earth orbit. We tracked several objects during the flight, but did not observe the insertion of any objects into orbit and no objects associated with this launch remain in space." China tested an ASAT weapon in 2007 that created thousands of pieces of debris on orbit. The Pentagon's newly issued 2013 annual report on Chinese military developments states that China is acquiring "a range of technologies" to improve its space and counterspace capabilities.

—Marc V. Schanz

5/16/2013

 

Dear, What so ever US said,
Congratulation China.