09 February 2022
Tianwen 1 has sent a selfie video from 325 million km away to celebrate the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The video, showing the Olympic emblem, was taken by a camera mounted on a selfie stick attached to the orbiter. The selfie stick is made of shape memory composite and weighs only 800 grams. Its arm is 1.6 m long when unfolded at a certain temperature.
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10 February 2022
CASC released its 2021 Blue Book on 09 February. For 2022 at least 50 launches are scheduled, including the The first missions of the CZ-6A and Smart Dragon 3.
China will realize 3 firsts during the CSS assembly this year and "will achieve the first combined flight of 6 spacecrafts, the 6-month-stay of taikonauts, and the first time that 2 crews" will work together on the CSS. There are 2 human missions planned for this year: the SZ-14 and SZ-15 flights.
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11 February 2022
On 26 January, the CZ-4C launched the L-SAR 01A satellite into space. The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), can monitor the geological environment, landslides, and earthquakes. The radar is now capable of taking quality pictures from space, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the organisation that designed the radar and received observing data. The complementary 2nd satellite, L-SAR 01B, will be launched at the end of February.
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14 February 2022
This week, Jean Deville and Blaine Curcio introduce us to Tianbing/Space Pioneer, "one of China's quirkiest launch companies", as they find. Another topic of this week's broadcast is CASC's Blue Book. The two experts look into the interesting details of this annual overview paper. More news can be found in their weekly newsletter.
And if you like to support Jean and Blaine, maybe you would like to buy them a coffee? 
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