27 September 2018
Xi'an Aerospace Propulsion Institute applied for arbitration at a local labor dispute arbitration agency on 20 May in order to retain Zhang Xiaoping, a deputy director of rocket design in Xi'an, who moved to private company Landspace earlier this year. The reason the institute applied for an arbitration is that Zhang, who was involved in some national key programs, knows a lot of confidential information and should go through formalities before he quit to ensure that secrets are not released, according to rules.
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27 September 2018
A decade ago on 27 September 2008, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang took the nation's first steps in space, making China the third country in the world to hold the technology for extravehicular activities. Zhai's historic step was a milestone in China's big picture of a manned space mission, and throughout the 15 years of development, there have been many other notable moments worth remembering.
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27 September 2018
The conference days of the 4th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum took place on 26 and 27 September. The exhibition of commercial aerospace companies is still on until 28 September. For some photo impressions and a report in Chinese, please, have a look at CASIC's website. GoTaikonauts! will report about the forum in one of its next issues.
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26 September 2018
China will carry out large-scale scientific experiments on space application projects after the completion of China's space station. "The space station can support space applications in and out of the cabin, and the payload can be adjusted in orbit," Lin Xiqiang, Deputy Director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office said at a media briefing on China's space projects on 26 September. "I believe the large-scale experiments will bring more important achievements with international influence and application value."
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