23 October 2019
The Chang'e 4 lander and the rover have resumed work for the 11th lunar day on the Far Side of the Moon after "sleeping" during the 10th lunar night. The lander woke up on 23 October, at 5:11 h (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke on 22 October at 11:45 h BJT. Both are in normal working conditions, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration. The rover has traveled about 290 meters on the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory.
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23 October 2019
Researchers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China processed 400 gigabytes of data a second as they tested data pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, according to an ICRAR statement released on 22 October.
"Completing this test successfully tells us we'll be able to deal with the data deluge of the SKA when it comes online in the next decade," said Andreas Wicenec, the director of Data Intensive Astronomy at ICRAR.
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23 October 2019
The First Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Aerospace and Aerodynamics successfully conducted a wind tunnel experiment, in which the second-stage aircraft freely detached from the first-stage aircraft of a two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) space plane, according to a statement the academy released on its WeChat account on 21 October.
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23 October 2019
Despite intensive efforts by the organisers of the 70th IAC, taking place currently in Washington, U.S., many Chinese space experts could not attend the space conference due to visa issues.
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