China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp Established the Space Project Development Co., Ltd to Forge A Production Force That Will Produce Hundreds of Satellites A Year
26 April 2018 (posted: 14 August)
On 26 April, the Space Project Development Co., Ltd. of China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp was established in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province. This company will build up an ecological circle for satellite industry and forge a production force that will produce hundreds of satellites a year through combining advantages of the large-scale satellite manufacturing in the Wuhan National Aerospace Industry Base.
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China's 6th High-Tech Expo
14 August 2018
The 6th High-Tech Expo will be held in Mianyang Science and Technology City from 6 to 9 September 2018.
Around 10,000 national and international guests from the industries, inter-ministerial coordination group members of the Mianyang Science and Technology City and representatives of investment and financing institutions will be invited to attend the meeting. This year's expo is themed: “military-civilian integration, technological innovation, openness and cooperation”. The 70,000-square-meter exhibition area is divided into five sections.
A China BeiDou Application Conference will also be organised and industry professionals, scholars and experts in the sector of BeiDou development and application will be invited to exchange ideas on the technology and application of navigation, remote sensing, communications and other satellite systems to promote the sharing and comprehensive utilisation of satellite data.
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China Opens First Seed Bank for Cultivation in Space
09 August 2018
China opened its first space cultivation seed research center and laboratory on 9 August in Yangling, in northwestern Shaanxi province. The center is a resource base for space breeding and crop and other seed selection, Securities Times reported. “2018 is the 31th year that China has conducted space breeding experiments. China successfully launched the ninth retrievable satellite which carried crop seeds of pepper, wheat and rice, thus starting China’s space breeding practice on Aug. 5, 1987” said Guo Rui, director of the Yangling Demonstration Garden for Modern Plant Introduction and Breeding.
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Asteroids named after Tianjin University and Chinese Space Scientists
10 August 2018
An asteroid has been named after China's Tianjin University, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Tianjindaxue (Tianjin University), coded 8917, was discovered in March 1996 by astronomers with the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong observatory in north China, according to a recent IAU communique. Two other asteroids have been named after Chinese space scientist Guo Yonghuai and his wife Li Pei, an applied linguist, with approval from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), according to the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). The two asteroids, No. 212796 and No. 212797, were discovered in October 2007 by a Chinese researcher from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
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