Chinese university launches reusable rocket
23 April 2019
China's Xiamen University launched and recovered its first rocket on 23 April, in northwest China's desert. The Jiageng-I rocket, jointly developed by Xiamen University and Beijing-based company Space Transportation, has a total length of 8.7 meters, a wingspan of 2.5 meters and a take-off mass of 3,700 kg.
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News from China National Space Day 2019
China's Long March-5B rocket to make maiden flight in 2020 for China's Space Station
China's planned Space Station (CSS) to support hundreds of experiments
China opens submissions for science, technology experiments on CSS
China to further promote space cooperation for UN sustainable development
China to build scientific research station on Moon's south pole
Testing complete on core module of new space station
Satellite remote sensing used in water protection
25 April 2019
The drinking water source enforcement app integrates satellite remote sensing images, water environment problems spotted by satellite, water protection zone boundary's spatial data, water environment problems found by provinces and cities themselves and law enforcement data at the scene, and sends environmental problem lists to law enforcers at the scene to guide their work.
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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concludes on hearing
26 April 2019
SpaceNews reports about the hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, stating that "while the professional consensus is that China is a rising space power with a growing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons, a future war in space is not a foregone conclusion."
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