XSLC applies new system to quickly find fallen rocket debris
18 March 2020
The Xichang Satellite Launch Centre announced on 18 March the development of a new positioning system that can greatly shorten the time searching and locating rocket debris after launch. The system has proved efficient after the centre launched the 54th BeiDou satellite into space on 9 March. The satellite was sent into space by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. With the guidance of the system, the centre staff just spent 25 minutes finding the rocket boosters, while in the past, it would take them several hours or even half a month to complete such a task.
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Long March-7A carrier rocket fails on first flight
16 March 2020
The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure on 16 March. The rocket took off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later. Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure.
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Xiaomi: Exploration is more than just discovering
15 March 2020
In 2019, Xiaomi installed the #Mi10Pro's 108MP camera hardware module onto the Xiaoxiang 1-08 (Dianfeng, TY 1-08, XX-1 08, XX1-08, Tianyi-15, TY-15, COSPAR: 2019-072D) satellite, and launched it on 3 November 2019 into space to capture our planet with Xiaomi's latest imaging technology. The release of the photos show an incredible resolution and image clarity. Xiaomi published a advertisement video on YouTube: See Our Mother Earth from a Different Angle.
for downloading the photos: Check Out the Photos Shot by Mi 10 Pro from 500km Hight!
How China is planning to go to Mars amid the coronavirus outbreak
13 March 2020
Smriti Mallapaty is reporting for Nature magazine, that the launch for China's Mars 2020 is on track for July: "China’s first journey to Mars is one of the most anticipated space missions of the year. But with parts of the country in some form of lockdown because of the coronavirus, the mission teams have had to find creative ways to continue their work. ... Several days ago, the team had to move six scientific payloads for the orbiter from Beijing to Shanghai, where they will be assembled. Instead of risking the team members getting infected on a plane or high-speed train, 3 people drove the 6 payloads in a car - a journey that took more than 12 hours."
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