06 June 2020
On 5 June China and Serbia signed a memorandum on space technology. The memorandum was signed by Zhang Kejian, Director of the China National Space Administration, and Nenad Popovic, Serbian Minister in charge of innovation and technological development, via a video conference. Zhang said the memorandum is in the common interests of both countries, adding that as many scientists as possible will engage in joint space projects. "Our goal is to put the flag of Serbia on the spacecraft that we will jointly design," he announced.
According to the Serbian government, the document will envisage the "improvement of bilateral cooperation between Serbia and China in the development and use of space technology, satellite systems and the Earth Observing System, with applications in the field of smart agriculture, telecommunications, ecosystems, remote sensing systems and geolocation positioning."
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08 June 2020
11 items from Tibet including barley, forage grass, rose rhodiola, lemon, and graphene that were carried by the re-entry module of the new manned spacecraft in early May are now available for testing in labs, China Tibet Online reported. The items are of interest in studies of the germination characteristics of seeds, crop output and plant growth cycles. Wang Junjie, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of China, said the 11 items were taken to space to determine whether they would mutate in an environment of cosmic radiation, charged particles and zero gravity.
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08 June 2020
The Xi'an Satellite Control Center's tests have shown links among the satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) are stable to ensure that the constellation can be completed as scheduled. The tests showed that the inter-satellite links meet the demands of the construction of the global system, said Yuan Yong, a senior engineer from the control centre. He said that the tests, lasting for more than two years, covered 29 satellites of the BDS-3 system.
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10 June 2020
Nanjing Agricultural University has developed the BeiDou-tech-supported unmanned wheat seeding and harvesting technology. The smart wheat production technology integrates BeiDou navigation technology, information technology and agricultural engineering into the whole process of wheat production.
BeiDou navigation technology, multi-dimensional sensing technology, unmanned vehicles and Internet of Things contribute comprehensive data to the production.
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