16 August 2021
This week, Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville discuss efforts by commercial company Space Transportation for point-to-point space transportation missions and space tourism, give more details on China's plans for a lunar lander and about in-flight connectivity and entertainment by China Eastern airline.
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17 August 2021
China recently compiled its first global carbon flux dataset based on high-quality data collected by the country's first CO2 monitoring satellite TanSat. Chinese scientists came up with a complicated and original methodology at the processing stage, including retrieval and data assimilation from TanSat spectral measurements and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to track carbon flux. The result has been published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.
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17 August 2021
3rd generation space tracking ship Yuanwang 6 departed on 17 August from its home port in east China's Jiangsu Province for a new round of monitoring missions in the Indian Ocean. YW-6 will operate at sea for around 76 days, covering more than 16,000 nautical miles during its voyage. Before departure, the ship's staff completed vessel examination and maintenance, ensuring all systems and facilities aboard were in good working condition.
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18 August 2021
Mars rover Zhurong has accomplished its exploration and detection tasks as planned, reaching its designed life time. As of 15 August 2021, Zhurong had worked on the surface of Mars for 90 Martian days, or about 92 Earth days, with all scientific payloads operating nominally. The rover traversed 889 m across the surface. Mission Control has collected about 10 Gb of raw data from the rover payloads. Currently, Zhurong operates in good condition with sufficient energy. It will continue to move to the boundary zone between the ancient sea and the ancient land in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, and will carry out additional tasks.
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