08 February 2018
Yang Yuguang, Senior Researcher at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, told China Daily that Chinese space workers appreciate SpaceX's spirit of innovation and creativity and are determined to continue to explore their own road maps toward success. "The rapid rise of SpaceX can't be copied in China because NASA has granted it an unprecedented level of support, ranging from infrastructure and technology to experience," he said. "That is why it has been able to grow so fast. By comparison, we have to accumulate experience and technology on our own." However, some of the US company's technical approaches can be considered by Chinese researchers as a reference, Yang said, noting China should particularly research and learn its expertise in producing and optimizing rocket engines.
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China’s space tech has a lot to catch up with the U.S.
08 February 2018
China has a lot of catching up to do with the US on space technology because it was late in the game and only a few of its private companies have such a mature technology, Chinese experts said after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy on 6 February. According to media reports, the Falcon Heavy can carry a payload of 16.8 tons to Mars. This shows China still lags far behind the US on space technology, because our most recently launched Long March-5 can only carry a payload of 25 tons into low Earth orbit, Huang Hai, Vice President of Beihang University's School of Astronautics.
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06 February 2018
The first fully assembled dish for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope was unveiled on 06 February in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province. The SKA, an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope using arrays in Australia and South Africa, is not a single telescope, but a collection of telescopes or instruments, called an array, to be spread over long distances. After completion, the SKA will detect faint radio waves from deep space with a sensitivity about 50 times greater than that of the Hubble telescope. Individual radio telescopes will be linked to create a total collecting area of about 1 million square meters.
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Guizhou applies to set up SKA Asian center
07 February 2018
Southwest China's Guizhou Province, home to the world's largest single-dish radio telescope FAST, will apply to build an Asian center for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) this year. An array is a collection of telescopes and instruments spread over a wide area, working in concert with one another. The SKA is an international effort by 20 countries, including China, to build the world's largest radio telescope using arrays. Australia and South Africa have already started work on their arrays. Construction of the SKA proper is expected to begin this year with observations commencing in 2020.
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07 February 2018
Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, on 7 February. Zhang made the remarks at a seminar while listening to reports delivered by Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang and Deng Qingming about their work over the years. Zhang called on the military and the armed forces to learn from taikonauts.
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06 February 2018
China has started publishing the world's first big data journal on Earth sciences, the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on 6 February. The journal, titled Big Earth Data, publishes research papers on big data related to the Earth and encourages authors to store and share the data with the public. Big data on the Earth is a new area of geoscience and information science and a new tool for understanding the Earth.
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