03 August 2022
In the past 24 years, Nie Haisheng was tasked with three of China's pioneering spaceflights, on standby for another three, and became the country's first astronaut to have accomplished a 100-day stay in the near-Earth orbit and the first commander of a crew to have lived and worked in China's space station core module. On the 95th anniversary of the PLA, he was awarded with the "Order of Bayi" (August 1 Medal) medal.
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03 August 2022
Chen Man-lin, a 15-year-old Hong Kong student, participated in a national campaign of writing to astronauts in the Tiangong space station in a campaign called "Bring my dream to Tiangong". SZ-14 taikonaut Chen Dong responded to her letter with a 3-page answer. Along with the letter, Chen Dong also recorded a video in the space station to share the student's letter and his reply.
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30 July 2022
The short message communication service provided by the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) progressed from industrial application to public application. During a conference held at 30 July in Beijing, achievements related to the BDS-3 short message communication services were revealed. The service covers China and its neighbouring countries and regions, with low costs, wide coverage and high reliability. The short message service can effectively supplement the ground mobile communication network and satisfy the demand for emergency communication and search and rescue work in areas without ground network coverage.
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29 July 2022
On 29 July at 21:28 BJT, China successfully launched the 3rd group of Yaogan 35 satellites from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. The remote sensing satellites took off on board a CZ-2D and entered the planned orbit. The satellites will be mainly used to conduct scientific experiments, land resource surveys, agricultural product yield estimation, and disaster prevention and reduction.
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30 July 2022
The EU Space Surveillance and Tracking (EU SST) has monitored the re-entry of large space object CZ-5B (2022-085B), launched on 24 July 2022. The EU SST network of sensors observed the object closely, and its radars have narrowed down its re-entry window to 30 July. According to the update from 2022-07-30 21:50 UTC+2 EU SST reported: Based on external information, EU SST confirms that object CZ-5B decayed on 2022-07-30 16:45 UTC ±15 minutes.
It was not immediately clear where the debris impacted the ground. There were unconfirmed reports of a location East of Borneo/Malaysia or even close to the coast of the island at 3.4 latitude, 113 longitude.
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UPDATE - 31 July 2022
CMSA said in a brief statement that re-entry occurred at 00:55 BJT (16:55 UTC), noting the touchdown site is in waters [of the Sulu Sea, Philippines] located at 9.1°N and 119.0°E. It did not provide additional details.
29 July 2022
An experimental satellite, which improves the inversion accuracy of atmospheric density, was among the 6 payloads launched with the Lijian 1 rocket on 27 July. It will provide technical support for orbit prediction and collision warning of space vehicles. The spherical satellite has a mass of 36 kg and a diameter of 60 cm. It is equipped with 2 receivers of the global navigation satellite system and a laser corner reflector for accurate atmospheric density inversion. It was co-developed by the National Space Science Center and the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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