China calls for international efforts to prevent arms race in outer space
06 July 2018
A senior Chinese diplomat has called for joint efforts from the international community to explore effective ways to prevent an arms race in outer space. Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhui made the remarks at an international workshop for the prevention of an arms race in outer space held on 4 and 5 July in Beijing. Zhang said issues of outer space security are of great importance to the development and security interests of all countries.
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China test-fires new solid booster for next generation rocket
07 July 2018
China had successfully finished the first joint hot-fire test of a new solid-fuel booster engine and its servomechanism system, the manufacture said on 7 July.
With a diameter of two meters, the booster engine is expected to be used on China's next generation medium-sized carrier rocket, according to a China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation statement. The segmented design was used in the engine, making it the most powerful solid-fuel engine at present, the statement said.
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AMS Experiment on the ISS - Dark matter source probe expected to have "decisive outcome" by 2024
07 July 2018
Scientists are expected to have a "decisive outcome" on search for the source of dark matter by 2024 after analyzing the huge amount of data on cosmic particles, said Nobel Prize winner Samuel Ting on 7 July. Ting, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 for discovering the J meson nuclear particle, made the remarks at a press conference held in Shandong University in east China. Ting leads the team that gathers particle data from Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) which was installed in international space station in 2011.
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After Thoughts about Joint Space Station - China Mulls Creation of Joint Global Satellite System with Russia
07 July 2018
A Chinese delegation has proposed to Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation to discuss a possibility of the creation of a joint global satellite communications system, which could become an analogue of UK's OneWeb satellite constellation or Starlink, a source from Russian space industry told Sputnik news media agency: "The Chinese delegation proposed to create a Russian-Chinese system with the obligation for each party to create half of the orbital satellite constellation and take 50 percent of costs."
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