China Lists Long March 2C for Nov. 5 as USSF-432 Holds for Nov. 6 Evening at Vandenberg

A Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base (file photo). Photo: SpaceX, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Public launch databases listed a Chinese Long March 2C from Xichang for about 11 a.m. ET on Nov. 5 and kept Space Force mission USSF-432 on the evening of Nov. 6 from Vandenberg, while the Defense Department and Space Force feeds posted no new military-space release in the coverage window.

Key figures: Nov. 5, 11 a.m. ET listed long march 2c liftoff from xichang (16:00 utc) · Nov. 6, 7:46 p.m. ET listed ussf-432 falcon 9 liftoff from vandenberg · 0 new military-space releases on war.gov or space force rss in the window

Launch Library 2 showed a Long March 2C with an unknown payload as Go for Launch from Xichang Launch Complex 3 on Nov. 5 at 16:00 UTC (11:00 a.m. ET), with a window opening about eight minutes earlier. As of the morning data cutoff used for this edition, that flight had not yet occurred. The same database listed a Long March 12 SatNet entry for Nov. 8 without independent confirmation of a military payload.

USSF Falcon 9 stack at Vandenberg

Launch Library 2 and Next Spaceflight still list SpaceX Falcon 9 missions USSF-432 for Nov. 7, 00:46 UTC (Nov. 6, 7:46 p.m. ET), USSF-627 for Nov. 10, 03:03 UTC (Nov. 9, 10:03 p.m. ET) and USSF-317 for Nov. 13, 04:23 UTC (Nov. 12, 11:23 p.m. ET), all from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4E and marked classified. Next Spaceflight describes USSF-432 as a classified United States Space Force mission, possibly linked to Space Based Sensing and Targeting satellites on a Starshield-class bus — that payload read is the site’s assessment, not an official Space Force confirmation. The site notes drop-zone geography similar to prior Starlink Group 15 profiles; that comparison is circumstantial. Falcon 9 Block 5 remains the listed booster family for all three USSF evening slots on the public calendars checked.

Quiet official feeds

The war.gov News RSS carried no space-domain release in the window. The Space Force RSS newest item remained a Nov. 2 Space Industry Days story from before this window; HTML news pages at spaceforce.mil returned HTTP 403 on one attempt. spacecom.mil news HTML also returned 403 once. The Office of Naval Research listed no news release dated Nov. 4–5. Opened sources did not report a new Russian or Chinese anti-satellite test or confirmed on-orbit weapons event in the window.

Yesterday’s space proclamation and cislunar report covers the prior policy track. Same-day Indo-Pacific naval drills are in today’s Malabar and Taiwan PLA report.

Opened sources for this window also did not add a newly documented battlefield satellite-jamming or GPS-denial event beyond coverage already carried in other War Room theaters. No new U.S. missile-warning or intercept announcement tied to space sensors appeared on the war.gov feed. Schedule databases remain the main public signal while official HTML news pages stay intermittently blocked.

The Long March 2C listing is a civil/military-ambiguous Chinese flight with an unknown payload in Launch Library 2; TBR does not treat “unknown payload” as proof of a weapons test. Likewise, the USSF mission numbers are public schedule labels for classified Falcon 9 flights — Next Spaceflight’s Starshield/SBST guess is labeled as that site’s assessment. Readers should wait for Space Force confirmation before treating payload guesses as fact.

By the numbers

From Nov. 5, the listed calendar puts the Long March 2C on day zero, USSF-432 one evening later, USSF-627 four days out and USSF-317 seven days out, by TBR calculations from Launch Library 2 and Next Spaceflight timestamps converted to Eastern time.

Watch for confirmation that the Nov. 5 Long March 2C left Xichang on time, whether USSF-432 holds for the evening of Nov. 6, and any war.gov, Space Force or Space Command release once HTML access returns.

Sources

• The Space Devs Launch Library 2: Upcoming launches API (list mode)
• Next Spaceflight: USSF-432 launch details
• US Department of War: war.gov News and Releases RSS feed

Additional sources

• Next Spaceflight: USSF-627 launch details
• Next Spaceflight: USSF-317 launch details
• U.S. Space Force news RSS feed