09 December 2020
China's satellite navigation and positioning industry gained a total output value of 345 billion RMB (about 52.8 billion USD) in 2019, according to the latest report. The sector's output value is expected to hit 400 billion RMB in 2020, according to the report released by the China Satellite Navigation Office on the construction and development of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). Over the past decade, China has seen the total output of its satellite navigation and positioning industry grow by an annual average of more than 20 percent, read the report.
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10 December 2020
Tianwen-1, which was launched in late July and has been in space for 139 days, is expected to be captured by the gravity of the Red Planet around the Chinese Spring Festival in mid-February, its developer China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC) said on 9 December. The probe, launched on July 23, has conducted three orbital corrections and a deep-space maneuver.
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10 December 2020
China has launched a data platform for sharing near-space science data to facilitate research, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Scientific Experimental System in Near Space platform, is led by the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the CAS. It includes original near-space data generated from various scientific experiments and data analyses, covering meteorological, hydrological and geographic information. The data spans multiple fields including biology, atmosphere, electromagnetics and radiation.
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09 December 2020
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced on 9 December that it has completed the in-orbit delivery of the communication satellite APSTAR-6D to its customer. China Great Wall Industry Corporation, a commercial satellite launch company under the CASC, delivered the satellite to Shenzhen-based APT Mobile SatCom Limited.
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