So here's the deal: back in late last year this certain "XJY-6-02" was listed along w/ others as from CAST's new "Remote Sensing Satellite" sub-division, w/ XJY-6 being the one dumped into the ocean on the 1st LM-7A flight last year. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vksJ0gJoG-CDUCEwi6w1fg …
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Some Chinese forum members dug into official articles mentioning the original XJY-6 & noted an engineer that appeared. This very same person has co-authored a paper on removing vibrations on parts of....high-res, high orbit optical remote sensing sats. https://9ifly.spacety.com/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=93994&pid=769925 …pic.twitter.com/4MCa2gS33o
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Now, the Chinese seems dead keen in the "high ground" of GEO obs. sats. that can point at points of Earth 24/7/365, w/ GF-4 in 2015 & then the much larger GF-13 last year. This one though, the name "XJY" means "new technology validation"....so what new tech could that meant?
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Some Chinese members pointed to sth interesting - optical membrane lens using diffractive optics. A tech
@DARPA investigated in their MOIRE project: https://www.ball.com/aerospace/programs/moire … Academic papers did exist of the Chinese interested in such things. What if they are fielding a prototype?pic.twitter.com/1FRxcaTseT
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Of course sth as big as the illustrated sat above might be too much for the LM-7A to carry. But what GEO optical sat would the Chinese want to field at the limits of Atlas V 421/F9 ship landing class, & more importantly so quickly after losing 1 last year? Ah, my brain hurts...pic.twitter.com/F25NGw04ON
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Well the plot thickens as there were apparently public mentions of an *antenna technology lab* of CAST involved w/ this thingy, yet in other press articles/papers w/ mentioning of this XJY-6 the people involved all have track records of *optical* sats.
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Can you give us some hints on those things about the payload that could potentially blow your mind ?
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Give me a few hours as I'm still at work.

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It could be around midnight on March 11/12, so not necessarily one day earlier
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Long March 7A • XJY 6 https://everydayastronaut.com/xjy-6-02-long-march-7a/ … Lift Off Time (Subject to change) March 11, 2021 – 17:50 UTC March 12, 2021 – 01:50 UTC
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