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Meet CCOCOOOO 37101. A vessel with no info available that was last tracked over 12h ago by vesselfinder.com near the CZ-11 launch site. The last time marinetraffic.com tracked the vessel was on june2.
play a bit of connect the dots and look on sentinel-hub's EO browser and you can see this thing
connect the 3 dots and you get pic1 , overlay vesselfinder and the connected dots and you get pic2
So I'm calling it, the launch platform is a powered barge named CCOCOOOO 37101!

Ain't she pretty!
Forgot to include the first reason I suspected the vehicle, messy track within the zone upon arrival.
Yuan Wang 7 tracking ship nearing the site
CCOCOOOO 37101 being the name of the Cutter in front does explain the weird travel track upon arrival so for now the barge shall be named Bob. Bob the barge.

Everybody, say hi to Bob.

Looks like there's a launch viewing cruise happening.

ℹ:m.weibo.cn/detail/4379488…
The location is tagged as Yantai so my best guess is that the ship is Bo Hai Zuan Shu marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/sh…
Slightly tweaked version of the logo on the cruise ticket
Minor adjustment to the assumed flightpath based on new notam & notmar
pic1: These are the active ships in the liftoff area, the 2 middle ships are mostly staying in the same place, the rest are moving back and forth.

pic2: If you track the past route of middle ships you find this pier...
If you look at the pier on the Sentinel-Hub you find 2 visible passes, on 24th(pic1) and 29th(pic2&3).

ℹ:apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/
Liftoff has occurred and so has several stagings.
0406 UTC T-0 according to 9ifly forum user

9ifly.cn/forum.php?mod=…
Launch success. T-0 confirmed.

ℹ:weibo.com/2656274875/Hxt…
LAUNCH VIDEO!

ℹ:weibo.com/cctvxinwen
Short news story with views of and from the barge
ℹ:weibo.com/tv/v/Hxub1hdAp…
Multiple liftoff views

ℹ:weibo.com/cctvxinwen
Sidenote: the measurement tool on Sentinel-Hub's EO Browser is surprisingly accurate. The barge size is 110m by ~80m
Close-up liftoff footage from a remote camera
ℹ:weibo.com/tv/v/HxuKNw8ho…
Most of the footage is same as previous videos but near the end is the uncropped version of remote liftoff cam
ℹ:weibo.com/tv/v/HxvrKcdPs…


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