28 February 2018
China will step up research into rocket upper stages in a bid to capture a share of the growing commercial market for carriers capable of putting small payloads into low and medium space orbits. Chinese developers have come up with a streamlined version, the Yuanzheng-1S, that can serve the whole flight profile, from launch to separation and then putting a satellite into its orbit, within just one hour. Yuanzheng-1S modules will be used to place commercial sensoring and surveying satellites into sun-synchronous orbits later this year after being lifted into space on Long March 2C carrier rockets. The Yuanzheng series will also be assigned a key role in China’s ambitious moon and Mars explorations, which will require that  multiple satellites and modules be sent in one launch.
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28 February 2018
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to Yang Yiqiang, Commander-in-Chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation - CASC. He said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea. "The sea launch will meet the growing needs for launching near-equatorial and low-inclination satellites, and improve the rockets' adaptability," Yang said. "The solid-propellant Long March-11 rockets have strong quick-response ability with low prices, which provide better, competitive services in space commerce."
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01 March 2017
China International Big Data Industry Expo will be held from May 26 to 29 in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province. The supercomputing power and technical application results of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) will be exhibited for the first time at the expo, according to the organizing committee. Global industry leaders will be invited to participate in forums focusing on artificial intelligence, data security, Internet of Things, shared economy, and targeted poverty alleviation at the expo.
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24 February 2018
The details of China’s early programme to launch dogs into space more than half a century ago were revealed last week in an article published on social media by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. To usher in the Year of the Dog, the academy, which oversaw the programme, said it wanted to “commemorate their legendary journey into the sky”.
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