23 June 2019
Chinese astronomers plan to use the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to search for birthplaces of new suns so they can better understand how stars and life substances are formed. "The high sensitivity of FAST and its advantage in sky coverage will enable us to study the molecular clouds in the Milky Way, as well as in the Andromeda Galaxy, adjacent to our galaxy," Li Di, Chief Scientist of FAST said. "We also plan to cooperate with the Milky Way Image Scroll Project of the Purple Mountain Observatory to catch the dark clouds at birth, and to study how many new suns will be born in our galaxy."
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25 June 2019
China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province on 25 June at 2:09 BJT. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the satellite was sent to the inclined geosynchronous earth orbit. It is the 46th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the 21st satellite of the BDS-3 system.
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25 June 2019
On Monday 24 June, South Africa’s Minister for International Relations, Naledi Pandor, signed a partnership agreement with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Beijing on the sidelines of the ongoing China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Coordinators’ Meeting. Pandor, who is leading the South African delegation to the Forum, held a bilateral meeting with Wang Yi, prior to another meeting with senior personnel from the Astronomy Institute of China. The bilateral agreement serves as a working framework for the Chinese entities to partner with South Africa on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.
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27 June 2019
The Chang'e 4 lander and the rover have resumed work for the seventh lunar day on the far side of the Moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at on 27 June, 9:45 BJT, and the rover, Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2), awoke on 26 June at 13:26 BJT. Both are in normal working condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Center of the China National Space Administration. Yutu 2 has traveled more than 212 meters on the Moon to conduct scientific exploration.
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