04 January 2021
Blaine Curcio of Orbital Gateway Consulting and Jean Deville of The China Aerospace Blog are reporting on the events in the week over the change of the years. They are giving details on the progress at Deep Blue Aerospace, the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Italy and what that means with respect to space cooperation. They also provide information on the first flight of the OTT Airlines and touch upon the investment by South-Korean company Hanwha into antenna technology.
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05 January 2021
The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that as of 1 April, they will accept online applications for FAST's observation time by foreign scientist. 10 % of the observation can be allocated for that purpose starting from 1 August. There is currently no restriction on the proposals, but the telescope is prioritized to study topics including the interstellar medium composed of neutral atomic hydrogen, the polarization of spiral galaxies, and fast radio bursts-transient radio pulses caused by some high-energy astrophysical process not fully understood. There are no details given on the involved cost for foreign use of observation time.
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04 January 2021
The Chang'e 4 mission is operational since exactly 2 years made some interesting discoveries. The Yutu 2 rover traversed the lunar surface by 600 m. Xinhua news agency summerised some facts and figures about Chang'e 4.
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03 January 2021
By the morning of 3 January, Tianwen 1 has travelled more than 400 million km on its way to planet Mars. The probe is expected to enter Mars orbit in February. As of 6:00 h BJT on 3 January, the spacecraft has been in space for 163 days. It was about 130 million km away from Earth and in a distance of about 8.3 million km from Mars. The probe is traveling at a speed of 23 km/s, covering about 2 million km a day. According to CNSA, the probe is in stable condition and is scheduled for a deceleration manoeuvre for entering Mars orbit in more than one month from now. The plan is that Tianwen 1 will survey Mars for 3 months before making a landing attempt.
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