22 May 2019
China will offer customized data services to more countries for disaster prevention through its Fengyun meteorological satellites along the Belt and Road, said a senior official of the China Meteorological Administration's National Satellite Meteorological Center. The services will be provided based on results of a survey of 81 nations. By the end of April, 22 countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Libya and Sudan, had responded to the survey.
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21 May 2019
A new chip for China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has been unveiled. Called "Lyra-II," the high-precision baseband chip, reportedly supporting all civilian signals from the Beidou 3 satellites, is said to be the first of its kind in the world, according to the chip's developer Beijing UniStrong. The company holds the independent intellectual property rights for the new chip, which it spent more than 50 million yuan over around two years developing.
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22 May 2019
The three-day conference features seminars, academic exchanges and exhibitions, inviting experts from both home and abroad to exchange ideas on key technologies, innovation applications as well as industry development. China Satellite Navigation Conference is one of three major international satellite navigation conferences. The annual conference has been held in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou since 2010.
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20 May 2019
LandSpace, a commercial rocket company in Beijing, announced on 17 May that its TQ-12 methane rocket engine successfully underwent a 20-second trial run at the company's test facility in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. It is the world's third high-performance methane engine after SpaceX's Raptor and Blue Origin's BE-4. LandSpace conducted four trial runs of the TQ-12 in the week from 13 to 17 May and all were successful.
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