03 June 2019
China is set to conduct the country's first space launch from a mobile sea-based platform in its territorial waters before the end of this year, aiming to provide a new option for domestic and international clients, Li Tongyu, Long March 11's project manager said. A Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket will lift off from a modified drilling rig－in the Yellow Sea off Shandong province. "This mission was initially intended as a technological demonstration of a seaborne launch, but we later decided to make it a commercial operation," Li said to China Daily in his office at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in southern Beijing.
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02 June 2019
The new Long March 3-A payload fairing with a diameter of 4.2 meters was designed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)'s China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology and has been delivered, according to a company statement published on its official WeChat account on 31 May. "Previous payload fairings with a diameter of 5 meters were built with imported materials," read the statement. "The materials, especially the core materials, used this time for a new type of payload fairing were completely domestically made, laying a solid foundation for applications for all the country's launch vehicles." The core materials are made from homegrown polymethacrylimide (PMI), a light and stable material with heat-resistance and noise cancelling capabilities, allowing full wave penetration that enables spacecraft including satellites to receive and send radio signals.
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01 June 2019
China intends to launch four remote Earth-observation satellites Hainan-1 by the end of 2019, according to Yang TianLiang, Director of Sanya Institute of Remote Sensing in Hainan under China’s Academy of Sciences.
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30 May 2019
The second meeting of the Kazakh-Chinese Working Group for Cooperation in Space Activities was held in Beijing. The Deputy Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of Digital Development, Defense and Aerospace Industry Malik Olzhabekov held negotiations with Deputy Administrator of China National Space Administration Wu Yanhua. The sides discussed promising areas of cooperation in satellite technology applications and in the development of scientific programmes.
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