28 March 2021
The first locally manufactured commercial launch vehicle in Wuhan is now undergoing final-stage testing and is ready for launch soon. Preparations have been completed on four new rockets which are awaiting orders for launch. The first of the Wuhan-manufactured launch vehicles will be codenamed Xinzhou after its birthplace in Wuhan's Xinzhou district, sources with the Kuaizhou Rocket Complex at the Wuhan National Aerospace Industrial Base told the Global Times.
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30 March 2021
Rice seeds which traveled more than 760,000 kilometers to the Moon in November 2020 and returned to Earth after 23 days of flight aboard Chang'e 5 lunar probe were transplanted from its greenhouse breeding station to experimental field on 29 March of the National Engineering Research Center of Plant Space Breeding of South China Agricultural University (SCAU).
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30 March 2021
Jeff Foust reports for SpaceNews that "NASA sought congressional approval to talk with Chinese counterparts and obtain information on the orbit of China’s new Mars spacecraft, a move intended to lower the risk of a collision with other Mars orbiters." NASA got the ephemeris data from Tianwen 1 what enabled Mars conjunction analysis.
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23 March 2021
Blaine Curcio of Orbital Gateway Consulting and Jean Deville of The China Aerospace Blog are reporting for SpaceWatch.Global on China's main space events of the last week. This time, the two experts focus on the latest news coming out from China’s leading commercial EO company: CGSTL - Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd.(Charming Globe), from CASIC’s narrowband constellation project Xingyun, the latest developments at the Daxing aerospace base, and the pictures taken by Tianwen 1 and Spacety’s SAR images of the Suez Canal.
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