CALT engineers envision reusable Mars Express
17 February 2022
CALT postgraduates have conceptualised a Mars Express - a reusable transport system that will commute between a future space station in the Mars orbit and a surface habitat of the Red Planet. The reusable space-ground transport spacecraft is targeted to offer solutions to the tasks including large-scale Earth-Mars transport and the probe and exploit of the Red Planet.
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Taikonauts keep Lantern Festival traditions alive on CSS
16 February 2022
Wang Yaping offered people on Earth a micro-gravity musical performance on 15 February to celebrate the Lantern Festival. The space show was shared via a video released at an annual TV gala for the festival celebration. In the video, Wang was seen floating in the space module while playing a guzheng, or Chinese zither. She played a segment of the popular Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower."
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Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup of 14 February 2022
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.
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L-SAR 01A satellite started remote imaging operations
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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