Beidou control centre completed health check of Beidou 2 satellites
23 July 2019
The Xi'an Satellite Control Center has completed a health check of more than 10 BeiDou-2 navigation satellites. A self-developed data service system enables the staff members to spend just five minutes finishing the examination, which originally required 10 hours. It has improved the efficiency of data analysis and laid a foundation for diagnosis, prediction and health checks of satellites.
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Head of CLEP wishes India’s Chandrayaan 2 landing on the Moon success
22 July 2019
Head of China's lunar exploration programme, Wu Weiren, wished India's landing on the Moon success after the South Asian country's successful launch of a rocket carrying its latest generation of lunar probe Chandrayaan 2. Wu made the statement on the sidelines of the 4th International Conference on Lunar and Deep Space Exploration which kicked off on 22 July and is to be concluded on 24 July in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province. "The international trend will not play a decisive role in China's planning on its lunar missions, and China is not going to compete with any one over the matter," Wu said. "China will pace itself against plans that have been already laid out in advance with each step surely achieving set goals."
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Economic Development Is at the Heart of China’s Lunar Program
19 July 2019
Marsha Freeman is analysing in her article for the "Executive Intelligence Review" the history and development of China's Lunar Exploration Programme - CLEP. She is explaining the motivations and ambitions which drove China to take on lunar exploration and she gives an outlook what the country will gain from science and technology conducted on the Moon.
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The US public is looking through the lense of "space enthusiasm" at China's space efforts
19 July 2019
Justin Key Canfil is a PhD Candidate in Columbia University’s Department of Political Science is conducting research on how media and the public in the US are reflecting on China's space activities. He argues that those reflections are not in line with the current "hawkish discourse on space competition" in political or institutional language in the US: "...the evidence suggests that other states’ successes have the potential to bridge divides by building mutual respect, even when tensions run hot."
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