13 August 2018
Chinese satellite experts are designing a new type of spacecraft that will be capable of moving a de-orbiting satellite back into its intended orbit, thus extending its period of service. The China Academy of Space Technology, part of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said in a statement that its engineers are conducting research and development on the proposed spacecraft that would help bring satellites that have run short on fuel or experienced technical problems back to their designed trajectories.
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14 August 2018
China's southern island province of Hainan has said it is preparing to launch a series of satellites in the later half of 2019, in two phases, to assist remote sensing coverage. On 14 August, the Sanya Institute of Remote Sensing approved technical plans for three optical satellites in the first phase and one in the second phase. Yang Tianliang, Director of the institute, said the network would be used to provide data services in navigation, fisheries and emergency rescue.
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14 August 2018
Chinese scientists have put forward a novel idea to view a total solar eclipse in space by using the earth to cover the sun, so they might have a longer and more accurate observation and study the source of solar storms. Cooperating with scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Innovation Academy of Microsatellites of the CAS, Luo Bingxian, a researcher at the National Space Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) took the idea to a contest of innovative future technologies and was selected as one of 30 winning projects. The project is about putting a telescope, the Earth and Sun in a straight line. His team calculated the best place for the telescope was close to the second Lagrange point (L2) of the sun-earth system, about 1.4 million kilometers from the Earth.
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14 August 2018
A Chinese scientist says the country's solar radio heliograph is likely to cooperate with NASA's recently launched Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun. The Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph (CSRH), built at Ming'antu, a radio quiet region in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, consists of 100 antennas with different frequency spectra covering an area of 10 square km. It can monitor solar activities on a wide imaging resolution spectrum. According to Yan Yihua, president of Division E Sun and Heliosphere, International Astronomical Union, the observation range of the CSRH and the Parker Solar Probe will overlap and it's possible that the two will cooperate in the future for specific scientific tasks.
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U.S., China should have more frequent contact in sciences
14 August 2018
Cooperation between U.S. and Chinese scientists, although currently strong, and could benefit from more exchanges, environmental experts said at a recent meeting held here.
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