28 November 2019
China sent the new Earth observation satellite Gaofen-12 into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on 28 November at 7:52 a.m. (Beijing Time). The satellite was launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. It was the 320th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
As part of the country's high-definition Earth observation project, the microwave remote sensing satellite is capable of providing photographs with a resolution of better than a meter.
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28 November 2019
On Thursday, 5 December 2019, Prof. Alvaro Giménez (CSIC Foundation, Spain), will give a talk on "Life in the Universe" at TusStar Coffee in Haidian District, Beijing. The "Understanding Science" series of public talks is organised by the UK Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and the International Space Science Institute - Beijing (ISSI-BJ). Its goal is to make a broader public aware of today’s accomplishments in research through short scientific lectures in English (popularisation talks) as well as to have an opportunity to talk with either international or Chinese scientists currently carrying out research in China, in a friendly environment.
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28 November 2019
In spring this year, a team of the Washington-based "Science and Technology Policy Institute" had a tour of the Chinese commercial space sector. As an outcome, the report: "Evaluation of China's Commercial Space Sector" was published in September. Using original documents and first-hand Chinese-language interviews with Chinese companies and China’s industry experts, the report provides a review of the current landscape of China’s nascent but growing commercial space sector.
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30 November 2019
Medical experts of the Aerospace Center Hospital in Beijing are playing an indispensable role in the Space Station programme. They are conducting extensive research to prepare Chinese astronauts for the coming space station mission. According to government plans, China will start putting together its first manned space station around 2020. In the first step, a Long March 5B carrier rocket will put the station's core module into orbit that year. Next, other components and astronauts will be ferried to the core module to assemble the station.
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