28 February 2020
Spacety, one of China’s very first private space companies developing small sats offers the full range of customers service: payload hosting, satellite launch, and on-orbit operation. So far, Spacety has been involved in 10 launches that have sent 18 satellites to orbit. However, Spacety is now starting to develop its own payloads for its satellites, starting with MiniSar, a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite that weighs 150 kg and can create images with a resolution of 1 meter per pixel.
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28 February 2020
China's new-generation space tracking ship Yuanwang 7 is sailing to the Atlantic Ocean for a satellite maritime monitoring mission. The ship departed from a port of the China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Controlling Department in Jiangsu Province on 27 February. It is the first time for Yuanwang 7 to carry out a mission in the Atlantic. Only one ship of China's Yuanwang fleet, Yuanwang 3, so far has conducted missions in the ocean. "This time the designated maritime area is remote and the route is new. We estimate that the vessel will sail in waves higher than 4 meters for over 10 days, a tougher journey than before," said Ni Liuguo, captain of the ship.
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27 February 2020
Yutu-2 rover is equipped with a Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR) to investigate the underground it roams. A study conducted by a research team led by Li Chunlai and Su Yan at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) reveals what lurks below the lunar far side surface. The LPR sends radio signals deep into the surface, reaching a depth of 40 meters by the high-frequency channel of 500 MHz - more than three times the depth previously reached by the Chang'e 3 lunar probe. This data allowed the researchers to develop an image of the subsurface stratigraphy of the far side of the Moon. "We found that the signal penetration at the Chang'e 4 site is much deeper than that measured by the LPR at the landing site of the Chang'e 3 probe on the near side of the Moon," said Li Chunlai, a research professor and deputy director-general of NAOC. The study was published in the latest issue of Science Advances. 
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link to article "The Moon’s farside shallow subsurface structure unveiled by Chang’E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar" in journal Science Advances.

25 February 2020
China Satellite Navigation Office told China Daily on 24 February that it will conduct two Long March 3B carrier rocket launches, one in March and the other in May, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province to send the last two third-generation Beidou satellites into geostationary orbit. The rocket to be launched in March was transported to the Xichang center on 14 February and is undergoing final inspections, the statement said, adding that about 200 engineers and technicians are working on the coming mission at the launch center. The satellite had arrived sometime earlier.
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