China from space: Satellite images of Guangdong ... and Guizhou
16 September 2019
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China from space: Satellite images of Guizhou
12 September 2019
High-res video imagery from space - including the "heart beat" of the universe as captured by FAST.
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Russo-Chinese agreements on Lunar research
17 September 2019
Two Russo-Chinese agreements on cooperation in lunar research were signed on 17 September 2019 in Saint Petersburg as part of the 24th Meeting of the Russian and Chinese Heads of Government. The documents were signed by Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin and the Head of China National Space Administration Zhang Kejian. One of the signed agreements is connected with creating and operating a joint Data Center for Lunar and Deep Space Research. The second document deals with the cooperation to coordinate the Russian Luna Resurs-1 spacecraft with the Chinese Chang'e 7 Moon polar research mission.
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China launches five new remote-sensing satellites
19 September 2019
Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on 19 September. The five satellites were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 14:42 h (Beijing Time). The satellites belong to a commercial remote-sensing satellite constellation project "Zhuhai-1," which will comprise 34 micro-nano satellites, including video, hyperspectral, and high-resolution optical satellites, as well as radar and infrared satellites.
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Chinese quantum satellite used to test basic theory in physics
20 September 2019
An international team led by Chinese scientists used the Micius quantum satellite to test why quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity, two bedrocks in modern physics, don't work together. The study published on 19 September online in the journal Science partially ruled out a hypothesis that the entangled particles would decorrelate from one another as they passed through separate gravitational regions of Earth.
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