29 October 2021 
After multi-party consultation and careful consideration, the organising committee of the 7th China (International) Commercial Space Forum decided to postpone the forum by 2 weeks. The 7th CCAF was originally scheduled to be held from 9-11 November 2021 but will now take place from 24-26 November 2021. The venue remains unchanged and will still be the Eurasia International Hotel in Wuhan, Hubei Province. International guests will participate online. 
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09 November 2021
The 1st China-Africa Beidou System Cooperation Forum took recently place in Beijing. Officials, industry leaders and researchers from China, several African nations and the African Union shared their thoughts on how to strengthen their communication and cooperation in promoting and using the Beidou Navigation Satellite System. China will join hands with Africa to promote Beidou-based services and applications on the continent to foster local industries and businesses and help to create more jobs and reduce poverty.
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08 November 2021
Tianwen 1, successfully completed its 5th braking manoeuvre on 8 November. The orbiter has been working around Mars for 473 days and is working as intended. But the engineers have calculated a new orbit for better remote sensing of the Red Planet and improved data relay between the rover and Earth. The orbiter uses seven scientific payloads to scan Mars and analyse its composition. TW-1 will remain in the new polar orbit for the next year to conduct global scientific exploration of Mars. The overall designed lifetime of the orbiter is 2 years. TW-1 is in Mars orbit since February this year.
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09 November 2021
This week, Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville are reporting about the announcement by SpaceTY for a new constellation in cooperation with BUPT (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), about OrienSpace's new co-CEO and about the latest technology developments by Linkspace which announced the successful completion of a first batch of tests of its first pump-fed engine, the Fengbao-1.
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