20 July 2018
The establishment of a research center of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) at the Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park Great Stone has been discussed by Deputy Economy Minister of Belarus Alexander Chervyakov and CASC Vice President Zhang Jianheng, BelTA learned from the website of the Economy Ministry.
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22 July 2018
When Chang Jin graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China and started work at the space astronomy lab in the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, in 1992, he was surprised to find that Chinese space astronomy was a blank sheet. "I felt like I was working in a car factory where no car had been produced," Chang, now Chief Scientist of China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), recalled.
Chang Jin grew up in a poor village in Taixing County, east China's Jiangsu Province. Any resource, be it food or money, was precious. "In my father's last days, he worried that if our satellite failed, the money wasted would be equivalent to the total income of tens of thousands of families in our hometown," said Chang. "That's why I work with extreme caution. We must succeed. We cannot waste the state's research money."
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22 July 2018
Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you don't have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead. A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to exploit its resources.
"Sounds like science-fiction, but I believe it can be realized," said Li Mingtao, a researcher at the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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26 July 2018
Chinese Academy of Sciences said at the end of July, that the atomic clock on board of Tiangong 2 has lost the equivalent of only one second in 30 million years during its two years in-orbit operation. The ultra precision is based on cold atom technology, performed in the microgravity environment of space.
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