24 January 2022
On 24 January, the Laboratory of Spray Combustion and Propulsion of the School of Aerospace Engineering at Tsinghua University, successfully conducted a test flight for a new engine that experts said could power China's future hypersonic aircraft and near-space plane, CCTV reported.
A two-stage rocket booster was used to assist the test flight, CCTV said, noting that after the separation of the 1st stage, the 2nd stage sent the engine to the predetermined height and velocity, and that was when the air inlet of the engine began to breathe in air very efficiently, and the fuel supply system began to spray vaporized jet fuel into the combustion chamber.
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28 January 2022
Wang Yaping has set a new record for the longest stay in space by a taikonaut. This is Wang's 2nd space mission, following her first 15-day Shenzhou-10 mission in June 2013.
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29 January 2022
China's solar observation satellite Xihe (Chinese H-Alpha Solar Explorer) has carried out more than 40 technological tests and over 290 imaging operations and has verified its equipment's capabilities during its ongoing in-orbit test operation. Xihe's H-alpha imaging spectrograph has recorded the sun's H-Alpha spectral line, Zhao Jian, Head of the CNSA's Earth Observation System and Data Centre, said at a news conference in Beijing on 28 January on the occasion of the release of the 5th White Paper on Space Activities. The in-orbit data are an important complement, scientists had to rely on spectral data from ground-based observations.
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31 January 2022
As of 31 January, the Tianwen-1 orbiter has been working in orbit for 557 days at a distance of around 325 million km from Earth. Zhurong has been operating for 255 Martian days and has driven a total of 1,524 m on the surface of Mars. Since its launch on 23 July 2020, the Mars mission has sent back 600 GB of raw scientific data, according to CNSA. Tianwen-1 will soon have its first anniversary in orbit, as it reached Mars on 10 February 2021.
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