23 January 2020
China will press on with work on a permanent space station after the core module and carrier rocket for the vehicle arrived at the launch site for rehearsals and preparation, the developer said on 21 January. The Tianhe module was recently transported to the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre on the southern Chinese island of Hainan for three months of trials with a Long March-5B rocket, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on its WeChat social media account.
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23 January 2020
China announced that it will launch its first Mars mission probe in July this year, China Youth Daily reported on 23 January, adding that this is the first time the country disclosed the launch month of its Mars exploration programme. The Mars probe will be sent by the Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket, said the newspaper, citing sources from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
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22 January 2020
Space-tracking ship Yuanwang 3 and Yuanwang 7 returned to the port of the China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Controlling Department after completing three monitoring missions. So far, all four space-tracking ships in service, including Yuanwang 5 and Yuanwang 6, have made it back to China.
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21 January 2020
A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature. The peer-reviewed academic journal "Satellite Navigation" is online in an open-access format, according to the joint sponsor Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS. The journal aims to report new results or progress on the theoretical techniques and applications of satellite navigation.
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