07 December 2018
China launched two satellites for Saudi Arabia on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on 07 December at 12:12 p.m. Each weighing 425 kg, the two low orbit remote sensing satellites developed by Saudi Arabia have a design life of five years. They are mainly used for achieving ground images. The rocket also carried 10 small satellites. The satellites have all entered the orbit.
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07 December 2018
In an interview with SpaceWatch.Global, Dr. Scott Pace, the Executive Secretary of the U.S. National Space Council run by U.S. Vice President Michael R. Pence, said that the U.S. does not envision any form of space cooperation with China. “China has good capabilities but the political situation is difficult. As a result, trying to build trust in civil space cooperation is very, very challenging... Not so much a competitor but a potential problem is China. China is becoming increasingly active in commercial space activities and at one level that’s a perfectly normal thing to occur. However, Chinese behaviour in other industrial sectors has had a distorting effect on markets. It has affected patterns of innovation and patterns of ownership.”
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05 December 2018
"The US is returning to the surface of the Moon, and we're doing it sooner than you think!" said Jim Bridenstine, NASA's administrator, last week, while announcing commercial payload partners. However, it's actually China that's going to the Moon sooner than you think. On New Year's Eve, in fact, when may become the first country to land a probe on the undiscovered side of the Moon.
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07 December 2018
The Kuilong system will link China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System with the Hongyan Satellite Constellation, on which construction will soon begin, said He Xing, Executive Vice-President of China Great Wall Industry Corp, which initiated the Kuilong programme. After the system is completed, Kuilong users will have access to their exact position accurate to about 10 centimeters in less than one minute, no matter where they are, He told China Daily on 6 December on the sidelines of the 6th China Space Forum in Beijing.
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