25 May 2017
China's new space telescope to be launched soon will probe many mysteries of the universe, including the belching "big eaters" - active galactic nuclei at the most remote edges of the universe. The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), developed by Chinese scientists, will observe some active galactic nuclei. "Black holes will be the focus of our observation since they are very interesting, and can generate various types of radiation, including X-rays and high energy cosmic rays, as well as strong jets," says Zhang Shuangnan, the lead scientist of HXMT and director of the Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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30 May 2017
The ESA's Mission Operations Centre ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany will be providing invaluable assistance to China when it launches the Chang’e-5 mission to land on and retrieve samples from the Moon later this year.
Andrew Jones of gbtimes is giving an overview on all cooperation between ESA and China on China's Lunar Exploration Programm CLEP.
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31 May 2016
A network of remote sensing satellite ground stations that cover all of China's territory and 70 percent of Asia passed its final acceptance examination on 31 May. The network is headquartered in Beijing and features three ground stations in a suburb in Beijing, Kashgar in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Sanya in Hainan Province, respectively. It will be used to support various remote-sensing systems, especially for the western part of the country and the South China Sea, according to the examination committee.
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31 May 2017
It is not NASA, nor ESA, DLR or ASI. None of the established national space agencies are the enabler for Chinese scientific research on the ISS. China is paying for it. The Beijing Institute of Technology became the commercial customer of Nanoracks. The private company Nanoracks managed the transport of the scientific payload to the ISS, planned by commercial SpaceX company. Deng Yulin of the School of Life Science at the Beijing Institute of Technology BIT said about the experiment which investigates the effect of radiation on the human genes: “Space radiation could cause harm to the astronauts, especially when they are in space for a long period of time. One of the biggest risks from space flight is gene mutation, we hope to do more research on this and learn how big the risk of gene mutation is for humans in space.”
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Chinese experiment among payload for ISS - launch with SpaceX delayed by storms
01 June 2017
NanoRacks, a Houston-based company that provides commercial hardware and services on the ISS, will provide the Beijing Institute of Technology the power and connection aboard the Falcon 9 to carry out the experiment.
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