17 November 2021
What does China look like through the lenses of Jilin-1 satellites? People's Daily release a short video, showing different landscapes from space.
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15 November 2021
In this episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! Jean Deville is summarising the last week's historic spacewalk by the Shenzhou 13 mission and gives background information on the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter which entered a space sciences orbit. While Blaine Curcio is providing an extensive update on the latest news from commercial launch start-up iSpace which sets foot in Hainan island.
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09 November 2021
This week, Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville are reporting about the announcement by SpaceTY for a new constellation in cooperation with BUPT (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), about OrienSpace's new co-CEO and about the latest technology developments by Linkspace which announced the successful completion of a first batch of tests of its first pump-fed engine, the Fengbao-1.
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08 November 2021
Tianwen 1, successfully completed its 5th braking manoeuvre on 8 November. The orbiter has been working around Mars for 473 days and is working as intended. But the engineers have calculated a new orbit for better remote sensing of the Red Planet and improved data relay between the rover and Earth. The orbiter uses seven scientific payloads to scan Mars and analyse its composition. TW-1 will remain in the new polar orbit for the next year to conduct global scientific exploration of Mars. The overall designed lifetime of the orbiter is 2 years. TW-1 is in Mars orbit since February this year.
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