CSS-4/CSL-2 LAUNCH PREPARATIONS SHUANGCHENGZI LAUNCH TEST SITE B1/2, CHINA

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
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• Publication Date: July 14, 1982
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CSS-4/CSL-2 LAUNCH PREPARATIONS
SHUANGCHENGZI LAUNCH TEST SITF. B CHINA
1. (TSR) SIGNIFICANCE: PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIRST CSS-4/CSL-2
LAUNCH GF-E79T-M CONTINUING.
2. (TSR) REMARKS: CSS-4/CSL-2 LAUNCH PREPARATIONS ARE IN PROGRESS
AT SHU GC NGZI LAUNCH TEST'SITE B1/2. THE FIRST STAGE IS
ERECTED ON A LAUNCH STAND NEXT TO THE SERVICE TOWER AT PAD B2.
AN EMPTY FIRST STAGE TRANSPORTER IS ALIGNED WITH THE LAUNCH
STAND. IMAGE DATA EXPLOITATION (IDEX) REVEALED THAT A POSSIBLE
SECOND STAGE IS SUSPENDED WITHIN THE GANTRY, PRIOR TO BEING
MATED WITH THE FIRST. STAGE.
(TSR) LAUNCH PREPARATIONS HAVE ING AT THE
SHUANGCHENGZI COMPLEX WHEN A SET OF EMPTY
CSS-4/CSL-2 MISSILE S TRANSPORTERS WERE SHUANGCHENGZI SSM SUPPORT FACILITY IED THE
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LAUNCH OF A CSL-2 WAS IN SEPTEMBER 1981, AND THE LAST LAUNCHTOF
A CSS-4 ICB11 WAS IN MAY 1980, BOTH FROM THIS COMPLEX.
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