According to the notice on the implementation of road traffic control issued by the Traffic Police Corps of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department on December 21: Hainan will implement traffic on the roads around the Wenchang Space Launch Base and the road leading to Wenchang from 0:00 on December 22 to 24:00 on the 22nd. Control to ensure safe, smooth and orderly road traffic in Hainan Province during the Wenchang rocket mission.

News reporters noticed that on December 21, the WeChat public account “Equipment Technology” hosted by the PLA News and Communication Center published an article: “Countdown to the Eighth First Flight of the Long March, Revealing the Long March Three things to watch for new members of the series”.

Previously, on December 16, the Long March 8 Yaoyi carrier rocket completed the technical area related work at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China, and was vertically transferred to the launch area. At the end of December, we will choose an opportunity to carry out the flight test mission.

At 8:20 am on the 16th, the active launch platform carrying the Long March 8 Yaoyi launch vehicle, drove out of the launch site vertical test plant, drove smoothly, and transferred safely To the launch area. Later, the rocket will be filled with propellant and launch as planned.

News (www.thepaper.cn) reporters learned that the Long March 8 will also have the capability of offshore vertical recovery. At present, the Falcon 9 rocket under SpaceX’s SpaceX Iron Man Musk in Silicon Valley has the capability of vertical recovery at sea.

According to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the Long March 8 launch vehicle has a two-and-a-half-stage configuration with two boosters bundled. The Long March 8 is developed in accordance with the idea of ​​modularization, serialization, and combination. It has fully absorbed the development results of in-service and new-generation launch vehicles. It has good inheritance, economy, advancement and adaptability, and can further improve the new generation. The launch vehicle type spectrum can meet the needs of future low-to-medium orbit high-density launch missions.

According to CCTV News in 2019, the Long March 8 will rely on the reliable technology of my country’s new generation of carrier rockets, through serialization, combination, and general design ideas. With the characteristics of moderate launch cost and short launch period, it has strong competitiveness in the international commercial aerospace launch market and will fill the gap in my country’s sun-synchronous orbit carrying capacity of 3 tons to 4.5 tons. The following is about the Hainan Provincial Public Security Bureau Traffic Police Corps Full text of the notice on the implementation of road traffic control:

In order to ensure the safety, unobstructed and orderly road traffic in our province during the Wenchang rocket mission, the Provincial Public Security Department’s Traffic Police Corps has decided to attack the surrounding area of ​​Wenchang Space Launch Base. The roads and roads leading to Wenchang are subject to traffic control. The announcement is as follows:

1. The time and scope of the control. From 0:00 on December 22 to 24:00 on December 22, 2020, transport vehicles carrying inflammable and explosive hazardous chemicals and freight vehicles with a nuclear load of more than 5 tons are prohibited from entering Wenchang controlled roads. All vehicles are prohibited from parking on the controlled roads; 3 before rocket launch It is forbidden for vehicles without a permit to enter Wenchang Donglong Line, Longchang Line, Wentong Line and Wudong Line; 1 hour before rocket launch, all vehicles are prohibited from entering Wenchang City Donglong Line, Longchang Line and Wentong Line. The deregulation time is determined according to road traffic conditions.

Second, implement controlled road sections. Wenchang Donglong Line, Longchang Line, Wentong Line; Longlou Diamond Avenue, Qishuiwan Avenue, Ziwei Road, Caihong North and South Road, Qinglan Bridge.

During the control period, vehicle drivers and pedestrians are requested to strictly abide by road traffic safety laws and regulations, and pass in accordance with road traffic signals and the instructions of the traffic police on duty.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by traffic control.

is hereby notified.

Hainan Provincial Public Security Department Traffic Police Corps

December 21, 2020