China launches remote sensing satellites
25 January 2018
China launched a series of Yaogan 30 remote sensing satellites at 1:39 p.m. (Beijing Time) 25 January on a Long March-2C carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. NanoSat 1A was also sent into space along with the Yaogan 30 satellites. The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit. They will conduct electromagnetic environmental probes and other experiments.
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200 days on the "Moon": China life support lab breaks record
26 January 2018
Two men and two women volunteered and spent 200 days in a simulated space lab in Beijing, setting a world record for the longest stay in a self-contained "cabin." The biomedicine students from Beihang University, the second group of volunteers staying in Yuegong 1, also known as Lunar Palace 1, completed the second phase of its 365-day on-ground experiment on 26 January.
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China to launch a constellation of 60 Jilin 1 video satellites by 2020
27 January 2018
China plans to launch 60 Jilin-1 video satellites by 2020, the satellite developer said at the ongoing legislative session of northeast China's Jilin Province. The high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites were independently developed by Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. for commercial use. Currently, China has launched 10 Jilin-1 satellites into space.
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OneSpace - China's first privately-developed rocket to launch in 2018
28 January 2018
China is set to launch the first privately-manufactured rocket in the first half of 2018, CCTV reported. OneSpace's 8-meter-long mini rocket, with a 6-meter solid propellant rocket engine which can generate a thrust of 35 tonnes, is less than half the size of the recently launched Long March 11 which was developed by China's state-owned China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. It can carry a 100 kg satellite and send it to an altitude of 800 km. Testing of the engine was completed at the end of 2017.
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