07 May 2021
The launch of Tiānhé and ongoing assembly of a modular space station by China represents the culmination of a decade-long marathon initiated in 1992. The current mythmaking about China’s intention to challenge the US space leadership with a new space (arms) race is fuelling a self-propelling mechanism that will lead to confrontation if nothing is done. To this end, it is high time for the West to engage China in meaningful cooperation mechanisms. There will only be a few possibilities of stemming the confrontational dynamics in the field of human space exploration, especially if China and Russia will seize the opportunity of a bilateral partnership. The ensuing antagonism will reverberate in other space issue-areas, compromising the security and strategic stability of space, and will have detrimental effects on peacebuilding on Earth.
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13 May 2021
High-resolution terminal devices of China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) with sub-meter level positioning accuracy have been installed in public buses in the city of Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province. The equipment is expected to offer real-time information with high accuracy. In remote areas outside the coverage of conventional telecommunications network, the device can activate the emergency communication function realized through the BDS-3 system and accurately upload location information of the buses. The city of Nanchang aims to install 1,000 such devices in buses by the end of May.
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13 May 2021
Galactic Energy signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CASIC on 13 May in Beijing to jointly develop the international market for Galactic Energy's solid-propellant Ceres 1 rocket, aiming in 2022 at China's first international space launch by a commercial company.
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13 May 2021
China's first smart satellite manufacturing factory went into operation in Hubei's provincial capital, Wuhan. In the morning of 13 May, the first satellite made in the facility rolled off the assembly line at a commencement ceremony attended by project managers and officials from central and provincial government. The communications satellite, which has yet to be named, is expected to be launched in the near future. According to Lyu Dongming, chairman of CASIC Space Engineering Development and owner of the plant, the site is able to produce as many as 240 satellites annually. The Wuhan satellite plant is able to produce multiple types of small satellite, each weighing less than 1 t. According to Lyu, the plant will substantially improve his company's manufacturing efficiency, and save much time and manpower.
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updates (with photo): China ready to mass produce satellites with first smart assembly line
Smart satellite facility begins work in Wuhan