18 August 2021
In this 2nd part of their weekly update on Chinese space news, Jean Deville and Blaine Curcio cover topics like CAS Space aims for space tourism, the funding round by commercial start-up Interspace Explore and information about the town of Guangzhou ambitions for Satellite Internet within its 14th Five-Year Plan.
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18 August 2021
The Shenzhou 12 crew is expected to undertake the second round of EVA during the next days. The Shenzhou 12 taikonauts have undergone a week of in-orbit training, including cardiopulmonary exercises, in preparation for the 2nd spacewalk. On 16 August, the crew and the ground astronaut support system jointly carried out a full-procedure spacewalk rehearsal. The spacewalker will explore optimised and more efficient ways for space walks. The 1st EVA on 4 July was done by Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo. This time it is possible that Nie Haisheng will go out with Liu Boming. Apart from verifying the flexibility and reliability of the spacesuits, a change of the outside mission rosters would also enable all three Shenzhou 12 taikonauts to have actual EVA experience.
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18 August 2021
Space agencies of the 5 BRICS countries have signed an Agreement on the Cooperation on BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation via a video meeting. The agreement enables BRICS space agencies to jointly build a "virtual constellation of remote sensing satellites," which works as a data sharing mechanism. The constellation is made up of existing satellites contributed by BRICS space agencies. The satellites include CBERS-4, jointly developed by Brazil and China, Russia's Kanopus-V type, India's Resourcesat-2 and 2A, as well as China's Gaofen-6, and Ziyuan III 02.
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19 August 2021
In the early morning of 19 August, a CZ-4B rocket launched the Tianhui 2-02 satellite group from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province. Take-off was at 6:32 BJT (18 August, 22:32 UTC) The satellites successfully entered the planned orbit.
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