China Is About To Launch A Daring Mission To Land On The Moon. So Why Do You Know Nothing About It?
05 December 2018
"The US is returning to the surface of the Moon, and we're doing it sooner than you think!" said Jim Bridenstine, NASA's administrator, last week, while announcing commercial payload partners. However, it's actually China that's going to the Moon sooner than you think. On New Year's Eve, in fact, when may become the first country to land a probe on the undiscovered side of the Moon.
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Executive Secretary of the U.S. National Space Council can not imagine space cooperation with China
07 December 2018
In an interview with SpaceWatch.Global, Dr. Scott Pace, the Executive Secretary of the U.S. National Space Council run by U.S. Vice President Michael R. Pence, said that the U.S. does not envision any form of space cooperation with China. “China has good capabilities but the political situation is difficult. As a result, trying to build trust in civil space cooperation is very, very challenging... Not so much a competitor but a potential problem is China. China is becoming increasingly active in commercial space activities and at one level that’s a perfectly normal thing to occur. However, Chinese behaviour in other industrial sectors has had a distorting effect on markets. It has affected patterns of innovation and patterns of ownership.”
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China launched two satellites for Saudi Arabia
07 December 2018
China launched two satellites for Saudi Arabia on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on 07 December at 12:12 p.m. Each weighing 425 kg, the two low orbit remote sensing satellites developed by Saudi Arabia have a design life of five years. They are mainly used for achieving ground images. The rocket also carried 10 small satellites. The satellites have all entered the orbit.
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Big Earth data launched at digital Belt and Road conference
07 December 2018
A Digital Belt and Road big Earth data platform was launched at the on-going 3rd Conference of Digital Belt and Road held in Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. As an A-class strategic high-tech research project initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2016, the cloud service platform aims to establish an open international center for big Earth data.
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