28 October 2020
Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville report on the webportal SpaceWatchGlobal about the 6th CCAF - China Commercial Aerospace Forum. The info from the event was primarily two types: 1) a huge data dump by all of CASIC’s space project subsidiaries, including informative speeches by Xingyun and Hongyun, and local media interviews with both in addition to Expace, and 2) lots of updates from commercial companies.
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29 October 2020
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the manufacturer of 17 first- and second-generation Fengyun satellites, will develop 7 new meteorological satellites during the country's 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), Yang Baohua, Deputy Manager of the company, said on 28 October at the 2020 Fengyun Satellite User Conference in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province.
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29 October 2020
Chinese space engineers have begun to test technologies that they hope will help to make their carrier rockets smarter. CASC's engineers will upgrade computers and control systems on rockets to enable them to monitor flight conditions and recalculate and correct their flight if necessary. In addition, researchers at the academy's Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute are trying to give the rockets learning capabilities. The attempt, if successful, will allow rockets to proactively adapt to sophisticated environments and emergencies so as to ensure the better completion of tasks.
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28 October 2020
Tianwen 1 conducted its 3rd orbital correction in the evening of 28 October, according to CNSA. The probe carried out the orbital correction at around 22:00 BJT with its eight 25 N engines working simultaneously. The performance of the 25 N engines was also tested during the operation. The orbital correction aims to fine-tune the transfer orbit after the deep-space maneuver, ensuring that the probe achieves a sound planned rendezvous with Mars. The probe has traveled about 97 days in orbit, flown about 256 million km and is currently 44 million km from the Earth. All probe systems are in good condition.
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