14 June 2018
China and Saudi Arabia on 14 June jointly unveiled three lunar images acquired through cooperation on the relay satellite mission for Chang'e 4 lunar probe.
This is an important cooperation achievement between China and Saudi Arabia in the relay satellite mission, the China National Space Administration said in a statement. An optical camera, developed by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology of Saudi Arabia, was installed on a micro satellite, named Longjiang 2, which was launched together with Queqiao. The micro satellite is orbiting around the Moon. The camera, which began to work on 28 May, has conducted observations of the Moon and acquired a series of clear lunar images and data. According to a memorandum of understanding signed between China and Saudi Arabia on 16 March 2017, the two countries will share the scientific data in this cooperation.
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14 June 2018
A micro satellite, developed by the Harbin Institute of Technology in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province and sent into an orbit around the Moon, has started to transmit data back to Earth. Two micro satellites, Longjiang 1 and Longjiang 2, were sent along with the Queqiao lunar satellite. Longjiang 2 successfully reached its destination near the Moon on 25 May, and entered a lunar orbit with the perilune at 350 km and the apolune at 13,700 km. However, Longjiang 1 suffered an anomaly and failed to enter lunar orbit, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Longjiang 2, weighing 47 kg, has become the world's first lunar orbiter developed by a university.
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14 June 2018
The relay satellite for the Chang'e 4 lunar probe has entered the planned orbit, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on 14 June. The Queqiao satellite entered the Halo orbit around the second Lagrangian (L2) point of the Earth-Moon system, about 65,000 km from the Moon, at 11:06 a.m. on 14 June after a journey of more than 20 days. "The satellite is the world's first communication satellite operating in that orbit, and will lay the foundation for the Chang'e 4, which is expected to become the world's first soft-landing, roving probe on the far side of the Moon," said Zhang Hongtai, president of the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
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12 June 2018
President Xi Jinping said in a speech at the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit on 10 June in Qingdao, Shandong Province that China is ready to offer meteorological services to all parties through its Fengyun 2 weather satellites. Many of the SCO countries are characterised by high mountains, deserts, oceans and a lack of meteorological information. The number of meteorological disasters in the region is more than double the world average. President Xi also called for solid cooperation in areas such as education, science, technology and disaster relief.
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