13 September 2018
Russia is showing increasing interest in cooperating with China on the nearby Vostochny spaceport. Alexander Molchanov, deputy general of the spaceport, said the new spaceport facility is very important to Russia. Russia is now looking forward to starting a series of aerospace cooperation projects with China, not only those related to the new spaceport, but various forms of aerospace exchanges as well. Earlier this month, a joint exhibition about Sino-Russian aerospace cooperation was held in Moscow, jointly sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Moscow Aviation Institute.
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13 September 2018
Upon request from potential applicants, in order to provide enough time for you to prepare applications in response to the 1st Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for flying your space experiments on-board the China Space Station (CSS), the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) have decided to extend the AO deadline by one month to 30 September 2018 for the international space community and all United Nations Member States to submit their applications.
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Issue no 22 of the GoTaikonauts! newsletter was just published. The focus of reporting is on the quarterly news in China’s space programmes and selected background reports.

Issue no 22 - Content
• Quarterly Report October - December 2017

• Hard Road to Commercial Space
The past of the Chinese commercial launch service
(including a detailed list of Chinese commercial launch efforts - also for download in the "downloads" section)

• Commercial Space Takes off in China
The new player in the Chinese launcher and satellite business - Part 2

• To Mons Rümker and back with Chang'e 5
Visit by taikonaut Chen Dong to the Neubrandenburg Space Day 2017

• The Indian Space Programme - India's Incredible Journey From the Third World Towards the First
A book review

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13 September 2018
A group of Brazilian students will start to receive postgraduate studies this month at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) as part of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS) cooperation programme which turns 30 this year. The Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (RCSSTEAP-China), which was inaugurated at the BUAA in 2014, has offered scholarships for Brazilian students in the master's and PhD programs in space technology.
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