Liu Yang shares her space experience with Thai youths
26 August 2017
Liu Yang, China's first female taikonaut, shared her space experience with Thai youths and teenagers on 26 August as she visited Thailand's National Science and Technology Fair 2017 in Bangkok at the invitation of the Thai Ministry of Science and Technology.
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China and Russia approaching close space cooperation: long-term and for deep-space
29 August 2017
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the Moon. The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep-space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth remote sensing, and space debris research. "China's and Russia's respective cooperation with some Western countries in aerospace sometimes is hindered by trust issue as aeronautic and space developments are closely related to military fields," Wang Ya'nan, Deputy Editor of Aerospace Knowledge magazine, told the Global Times on 29 August.
The joint space exploration between China and Russia would be easier as the two shared deeper mutual trust, Wang noted
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US-China Space Cooperation: Building bridges in space through private companies
30 August 2017
A historic first in space. It was in June that a U.S. company brought a Chinese experiment to the International Space Station ISS. It's an arrangement that was years in the making. It looks as though there may very well be another Chinese experiment headed to the International Space Station before the year is out. That's the word from Jeffrey Manber, the CEO of NanoRacks, a private company that considers itself the concierge to the Cosmos.
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Kuaizhou 1 to send six satellites into space
30 August 2017
China's Kuaizhou-11 solid-fuelled carrier rocket will send six satellites into space in its first mission, according to the rocket's developer and producer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC). The company announced the news on 30 August during a presentation at the Third China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province. The Kuaizhou-11 rocket will be launched via a mobile launch vehicle. With a lift-off mass of 78 tonnes, the rocket was designed to launch low-Earth and Sun- synchronous orbit satellites.
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