Commercial Space startups eye rocket and satellite markets
10 October 2020
Over the past two months, about 2.4 billion RMB (357 million USD) of investment was raised by two major private rocket companies in Beijing. In September alone, two massive manufacturing complexes - one for satellites and another for rockets - started construction in Hebei province's Tangshan and Shandong province's Haiyang.
Now, the southern coastal province of Guangdong is determined to catch up and has chosen to start by building carrier rockets. Last week, Guangzhou, the provincial capital, began construction in cooperation with CAS Space, a Beijing-based startup virtually controlled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the country's southernmost production facility for carrier rockets.
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China's Beidou navigation system supports a growing number of applications
08 October 2020
Despite being affected by three typhoons and the COVID-19 epidemic, Song Jilin's 20 hectares of rice on the Qixing farm, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, embraced a bumper harvest this year. There was a lack of hands during the spring plowing season because of the epidemic, but the unmanned rice transplanters equipped with China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) helped out, Song said. On the Qixing farm, a combine harvester guided by the BDS is shuttling between the rice fields. Zhang Jinghui, another major rice planter, said with advanced navigation technology, the harvester can work precisely with an error range of less than 2 cm. It can also work during the night to increase efficiency.
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Edible fungi from Chinese farmers now space food
08 October 2020
In a room resembling a space capsule filled with blue light, tens of thousands of Petri dishes, nurturing clusters of white enoki mushrooms, were placed on shelves. This is an edible fungus breeding room in Weining Xuerong Biotechnology Co., Ltd, one of the largest targeted poverty alleviation projects in China's southwestern mountainous province of Guizhou. The factory has 320 such breeding rooms, with about 56,000 bottles of edible fungi growing in each room. Growing edible fungi not only increases income for local farmers but also offers another possible food choice for human beings to survive in space.
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6th CCAF - China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum will take place on 19-20 October
06 October 2020
China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum (CCAF) is the first professional forum in the field of commercial aerospace in China. Started in 2015, the forum has been held for five consecutive years. Developing along with the commercial aerospace industry of China, the forum has become a serial, industrial and authoritative brand, providing a high-end platform for exchange and cooperation between the government, enterprises, academia, capital and other related fields. CCAF has effectively gathered advanced enterprises and collaborative resources of the international commercial aerospace industry and played a significant role in supporting the overall development and ecological construction of the commercial aerospace industry all over the world. The 6th CCAF will be held on 19-20 October 2020 - both online and offline.
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