22 April 2022
On 21 April, China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS) received data from the Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Satellite launched on 16 April. The Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed the receipt on 22 April.
The Miyun Station in Beijing successfully tracked and received the first-track downlink data from the satellite at 11:46 BJT on 21 April. Then, the Sanya Station in southern China successfully received data at 13:17 BJT and 14:55 BJT as planned. It took 24 min and 24 s to receive the 133 GB of satellite data, which were successfully processed.
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22 April 2022
More than 200 space activities will be held during the 2022 edition of the Space Day of China in the coming days. Space exhibitions are open to the public, and academicians and experts will give popular-science lectures online and offline for young people. The 2022 Space Day of China aims to inspire the public to learn scientific knowledge, generate innovative ideas and carry forward the scientific spirit. Starting in 2016, China has set 24 April as its Space Day to mark the launch of the nation's 1st satellite Dongfanghong 1 into space on 24 April 1970.
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23 April 2022
Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos plans to develop cooperation with China in the field of human space exploration, TASS reported on 22 April 2022. "Considering the strategic nature of partnership relations between Russia and China, we will, undoubtedly, develop cooperation with Chinese partners in the field of manned cosmonautics," the Roscosmos press office said. China has huge potential in human space flight, Roscosmos said.
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RELATED: Russia and China are working on a space cooperation program for 2023-2028
Russia and China are working on a five-year space cooperation program for 2023-2028, the head of the Russian Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseyev, told CGTN in an interview. The programme will include crewed spaceflight, deep-space exploration, lunar exploration projects and applications that can bring practical results, such as Earth remote sensing and navigation, Moiseyev said.

24 April 2022
Wu Yanhua, Deputy Director of the CNSA, told China's CCTV News recently that China will start to build an Earth-based and space-based NEA (near-Earth asteroid) monitoring and warning system, in order to ensure the safe, stable and orderly operation of spacecraft. China will categorise the risks posed by NEAs and explore techniques to mitigate those risks, said Wu. Furthermore, China plans to set up an NEA defense system, map out an NEA defense blueprint and develop virtual software to simulate NEA-derived risk scenarios. The country hopes to approach an asteroid to observe it closely before impacting it to alter its orbit in 2025 or 2026, a rehearsal to prevent NEAs from endangering our planet in the future, according to Wu.
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