02 October 2022
CMSA announced on 02 October 2022, that over the next 1 1/2 years it will recruit 12 to 14 new reserve taikonauts for future spaceflight missions. That would become the 4th batch of taikonauts. 7-8 of them will become spacecraft pilots, and 5-6 will be spaceflight engineers and payload specialists, including 2 as payload specialists. CMSA will, for the first time, select payload specialists from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. Currently, the Astronaut Center of China in Beijing is training the third group of Chinese astronauts.
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30 September 2022
The Wentian lab module has been repositioned to dock with a radial port on the Station's Tianhe core module on 30 September afternoon. CMSA said in a news release that during the hour-long operation that finished at 12:44 BJT, Wentian was moved from the axial port of Tianhe to a radial port of the core module. The maneuver was carried out based on cooperation between astronauts inside Tiangong and ground controllers. After the operation, the Tiangong station is now L-shaped and will remain in that shape until the docking with the Mengtian lab module.
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28 September 2022
Airshow China 2022 will be held from 8 to 13 November in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. A replica of the current Chinese Space Station configuration will be on display. The upcoming 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, Airshow China, will showcase China's cutting-edge technology in the aerospace and national defense sectors. The exhibits will also include China's latest scientific achievements in the field of lunar, Martian and solar probes. Over 740 domestic and overseas enterprises will participate in the exhibition, either on-site or online.
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27 September 2022
An in-situ ground-penetrating radar survey of Martian subsurface structure has revealed that a basin on the red planet has a dry and multi-layered shallow subsurface. The results published on 26 September in the journal Nature are based on a ground-penetrating radar survey of the subsurface structure in a southern marginal area of the Utopia Basin conducted by China's Mars rover Zhurong of the Tianwen 1 mission.
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Link to paper in Nature: Layered subsurface in Utopia Basin of Mars revealed by Zhurong rover radar