14 April 2020
A feasibility report for the FAST scientific research and data processing centre, to be built in Guizhou Province, has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.
With a total investment of roughly 170 million RMB (24.14 million USD), the centre for China Sky Eye, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope known as FAST, will facilitate three scientific research frameworks - observation, scientific research and data - providing support for the storage and calculation of massive data generated by long-term operations, media reported.
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13 April 2020
Chinese space industry insiders on 13 April debunked Western media claims that attest China's recent rocket launch failures to US chip export restrictions on China, pointing out that the country's rocket control systems have mastered complete localization for a long time, and China's space development sector is independent of any Western influence.
German public broadcaster DW's Chinese language channel on Saturday cited a Taiwan-based military expert, who floated a conspiracy theory alleging the rising failure rate of China's space industry as being caused by US chip export restrictions as part of the US-led trade war against China.
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14 April 2020
ExPace is scheduled to launch its next Kuaizhou-1A rocket as part of the Xingyun-2 01 and 02 mission. The launch window for the Communications mission is on 15 April 2020 00:00:00 UTC from Launch Area 4 (?), in Jiuquan. UPDATE: Friday, 17 April 2020 - Date and time: TBD / UPDATE2: Thursday, 30 April 2020 - Date and time: TBD
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13 March 2020
According to a statement by the head of U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command, pilots of the elite U-2 spy plane wear watches that receive foreign GNSS signals and provide backup navigation when GPS is jammed. “My U-2 guys fly with a watch now that ties into GPS, but also BeiDou and the Russian [GLONASS] system and the European [Galileo] system so that if somebody jams GPS, they still get the others,” said Gen. James “Mike” Holmes on March 4 at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington.
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