14 October 2021
The China Manned Space Agency CMSA announced at a press conference on 14 October that taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu were nominated as crew for the Shenzhou 13 spaceflight mission. Zhai will be the commander.  SZ-13 will be launched on 16 October at 00:23 BJT from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.
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13 October 2021
Guo Huadong, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a researcher for radar remote sensing and digital earth science at the Aerospace Information Research Institute under CAS won the Science for Sustainability Award at the first International Science Council (ISC) Awards for his contribution to sustainable development goals. Guo was awarded the prize on 13 October for his pioneering research on big Earth data science and his contributions in support of the sustainable development goals.
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12 October 2021
The regional finals of the Space Universities CubeSat Challenge, an international contest for mini satellites and payloads made by university students, concluded on 11 October in Beijing. 3 teams from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology and Dalian University of Technology were champions at the finals, which included participation by 36 teams from Chinese universities.
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11 October 2021
Most equipment on the Zhurong Mars rover stay powered on during the current one month long phase of sun transit. For Mars, the sun transit happens about every two years. When it occurs, Mars is on the opposite end of the line of sight Mars-Earth with the Sun in between, making the two planets temporarily invisible to each other.
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