04 August 2020
Designers of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will keep upgrading software on Beidou satellites to improve their capabilities and maintain technological advantages, according to a key figure in this programme. Lin Baojun, a Chief Designer of Beidou's 3rd-generation satellite, said at a news conference in Beijing on 03 August that once a satellite is launched, it is virtually impossible for its hardware to be modified, so designers and engineers need to optimize its operating system and inject new functions into the spacecraft on a regular basis.
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03 August 2020
People will get a closer look at Mars early next year when Tianwen 1 probe arrives at the Red Planet and the landing will be initiated. Some photos and videos will be captured by the Mars Landing Surveillance Camera, developed by scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. When the lander of Tianwen 1 descends to the Martian surface, its 390 g-camera will start to take photos despite the extremely low temperature. The engineers who developed the camera faced the challenge of building a multifunctional device that is as light as possible, said Yung Kai-leung, leader of the 20 member-team and chair professor of precision engineering at the PolyU.
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03 August 2020
A 35-day field calibration test for the two ocean observation satellites HY-2B and China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat) were completed in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The test included the calibrations of microwave scatterometers, which are key payloads on both satellites.
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05 August 2020
China plans to launch Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and Fengyun-4B (FY-4B) next year. Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) will be the 5th member of the Fengyun-3 series of satellites in polar orbit and the world's first meteorological satellite in dawn-dusk orbit. The other satellite is Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), which will be the 2nd geostationary meteorological satellite of the Fengyun-4 series.
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