20 August 2019
Construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest astronomical device, is expected to start next year, and China, one of the founding members, is preparing to build a regional data center and developing its reflector antennas.
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20 August 2019
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on 19 August, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause. The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 20:03 h (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The satellite separated with the carrier rocket as normal, but is now working abnormally.
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Reporting about the launch by Rui Barbosa on NASASpaceFlight.com
Long March 3B launches Chinasat-18 - waiting on status

20 August 2019
Yes, China’s NewSpace is growing. But Who is Backing Them? Space industry observers are generally aware that a very significant amount of investment has been pouring into China’s New Space, which consists currently of anything between 50 to 100 companies depending on the definition of “NewSpace”. In 2018 alone, 2.1 billion RMB was invested in space startups. But where is this capital coming from? Which VCs are the backbone of China’s NewSpace investors?
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21 August 2019
Chinese researchers have completed an in-situ experiment to study the influence of near space atmospheric thermal turbulences on mass exchange. The flight experiment took place over the northwestern Qinghai province and the southwestern Tibet autonomous region. It lasted 13 hours and eight minutes, with a maximum altitude of 21,625 meters.
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