Is this the beginning of private Chinese rocket business?
29 July 2014
English People's Daily had a report on a Shenzhen-based three-person company, called: Link Space, which ambition is to successfully launch the first private rocket firm in China. "We want to compete with a reasonable price, so we really need to be open to the market before other competitors come in," said Hu Zhenyu, founder and CEO of Link Space. "Efficiency is a major issue." Hu has a clear timetable: This year, research and development on a variable thrust prototype will be finalised; in 2017, they will launch a research rocket; and in 2021, they will put a launch vehicle with a diameter of more than three meters into space.
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Chang'e 5 is on track for landing on the Moon in 2017
29 July 2014
In an article with China Topix, a US-based online news platform, Wu Zhijian, spokesperson of the China State Administration of Science and Technology explained that the development of Change'e 5 is proceeding well. Despite this good news, China is aware of the difficulties along the way and that more milestone achievements for key technologies must be achieved. Also, the use of Chang'e 4 is still foreseen to support the lunar sample return missions Change'e 5 and Chang'e 6.
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China has announced the success of a missile interception test conducted from land
24 July 2014
The test, conducted within its territory late on Wednesday, "achieved the pre-set goal", according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of National Defense. Military authorities provided no other information about the operation.
China has already successfully completed two mid-course land-based missile interception tests, in 2010 and 2013, both of which "attained pre-set objectives."
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China and Brazil agree to launch another satellite
22 July 2014
China and Brazil have agreed to move ahead with the “China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS)” programme by adding another satellite to it, CBERS 4A, the Brazilian press reported citing the Brazilian Space Agency. The director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), Xu Dazhe, showed interest in building the CBERS 5 and 6 satellites as part of the 10-year programme between the two countries, talks for which are due to begin again at the end of 2014.
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