05 February 2021
OneSpace Technology Group Co. launched its "Chongqing Liangjiang Star" OS-X6B on 5 February at 17:05 BJT. The new smart suborbital rocket flew for about 580 seconds, reaching a maximum altitude of about 300 km. The launch served the verification of a number of key technologies and obtained a large amount of real flight environment data. The launch marks the first time that a private Chinese rocket company has realized controlled re-entry flight, human-in-the-loop space flight control, and (upper stage) redundant fault-tolerant control, according to OneSpace.
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03 February 2021
Asia’s largest single-aperture fully steerable antenna is ready to go into service to communicate with the Tianwen 1 Mars mission deployed by China. The antenna in Tianjin city in northern China has a diameter of 70 m. It covers some 4,560 m2, an area about the size of 10 basketball courts. Chinese officials said on 3 February 2021, that the dish will help collect data from the Tianwen 1 Mars probe when it enters orbit around the red planet on 10 February.
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07 February 2021
The Chang'e 4 lunar lander and rover have resumed operations for the 27th lunar day on the far side of the Moon. The lander woke up on 6 February at 16:48 BJT, and the rover Yutu 2 entered operational mode earlier the same day at 4:26 BJT. So far, Yutu 2 has traveled about 628.5 m. It is currently located about 430 m northwest of the landing site. During the 27th lunar day, the panorama camera on the rover will take colored pictures of Moon rocks and impact craters. The rover will move southwest towards a rock with a diameter of about 18 cm in about 17.8 m distance. The infrared imaging spectrometer will be used to detect the rock and surrounding lunar soil. The neutral atom detector and lunar radar will continue to carry out scientific investigations.
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09 February 2021
On 15 January, the BDS office has published 6 documents detailing technical requirements and test methods for key civilian products using the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The documents have been issued to facilitate the construction of a certification system for key BDS-3 products, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office. Technical requirements and test methods were drafted for chip, integrated chip, antenna, receiver board and navigation module products, as well as other key BDS-3 products that are used in civilian applications.
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link to the official BDS website with the documents in Chinese