China turns space debris into in-orbit Internet of Things
08 December 2017
Chinese scientists have turned the final stage of a launch rocket, which is discarded in space after sending a satellite into orbit, into a smart application platform by fitting it with intelligent chips. A program carried out by Shanghai-based Fudan University installed several intelligent chips on the final stage of the Long March 4C rocket, which sent the Fengyun-3D satellite into orbit in November.
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Pakistan will send astronauts to space - might become the first foreign nation to visit the future CSS
08 December 2017
Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman has announced that Pakistan will be able to send astronauts into space with the collaboration of China in the next two years.
He was addressing the inauguration session of AirTech’17 conference, hosted by Air University in Islamabad on 07 December, according to a statement issued by Pakistan Air force (PAF). In his keynote address on ‘Leadership, Education and Society Development’, he said that the purpose of an education system must be to introduce latest technologies and contribute something positive for the betterment of society as a whole.
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China Great Wall Industry is thinking of launch sites outside China
07 December 2017
China Great Wall Industry Corp, the country's largest space contractor on the international market, is considering using existing overseas launch facilities or building new ones in foreign territories to lift Chinese carrier rockets, Yin Liming, the company's president, said on the sidelines of the fifth China Space Forum held by the company in Beijing. He said too that working with foreign nations to use or construct launchpads or launch centers will strengthen China's international space cooperation.
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China plans robotic Moon base
05 December 2017
A Moon base could support bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who announced the plan at an international symposium in Shanghai at the end of November. Such a station could slash the costs of returning rock samples to Earth, Jiao Weixin, a Peking University space science professor, told Chinese media. A sustainable station would enhance lunar geography studies and "have better energy efficiency than lunar rovers as the station can deploy a much bigger solar power-generator," he said.
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