China's Hainan Meridian Project's first sounding rocket launch

China news agency, Beijing, May 7 - Chinese major national infrastructure projects - Old World Space Environment Foundation comprehensive monitoring meridian chain (referred to as Meridian Project) its first sounding rocket at 7:00 on the 7th at the Institute of the Ministry of Hainan launch sounding Field was successfully launched. The success of this trial will be China's independent monitoring of space environment, ensuring safety of space activities play an important role from the Center for Space Science and Applied Research Center, said, at 7:00 on the 7th whole, Eagle 3C sounding portable Kunpeng asics gel nimbus 14 uk the 1st instrument, the Ministry of rocket launch site in Hainan sounding direction of 45 degrees west along the north and 87 degrees elevation launch. 43 seconds, the rocket rose to 60 km altitude, the rocket speed and stability to about 2 rev / sec, arrows and rocket asics gel kayano 18 uk body separation, electric meter stretch rod commenced; to 46 seconds, the rocket rose to 65 km altitude, extended Langmuir probe lever to unlock, expand; 215 seconds to achieve 196 km orbital apex; 420 seconds, re-entry, flight test ends. Scientific data currently being analyzed in this experiment is equipped roc One radiosonde, including arms probe electric field instrument, atmospheric trace constituents detector, Langmuir probe three scientific exploration payloads and rocket-borne utility equipment, Arrows on the launch system, attitude measurement instrument, high dynamic GPS receiver and other equipment. Among them, the arms probe electric field instrument as well as by the Chinese, Austrian and Italian cooperation in the development of Langmuir probe is space exploration activities in China in the first application of Meridian Project is China's Eleventh Five-Year building a capable medium-term investment continuous operation on the ground, comprehensive, cross-regional large-scale space environment observation network. Engineering integrated use geomagnetic (electric), radio, optical and sounding rockets and other means, continuous monitoring Earth's surface 20 kilometers to hundreds of kilometers in the upper atmosphere, the ionosphere and magnetosphere, and a dozen interplanetary outside radius of the Earth space environmental parameters, will enhance China's space science and technology innovation capacity and to ensure safety of space activities to contribute so far, Meridian Project has been along longitude 120 degrees, 30 degrees north latitude line layout construction of 15 foundations space environment monitoring station.