06 November 2017
Deng Weiwei felt a sense of loss when he found out his former schoolmates were working on the launch of China's Tiangong-2 space lab, while he could only follow it on social media. It was on April 27, 2017 that Deng abandoned his tenured position as associate professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. After giving his last lecture, he finally returned to China after living in the United Sates for 15 years. Deng is among thousands of overseas Chinese talent flooding back to China. In 2016, a total of 432,500 overseas Chinese students and researchers returned. The number first exceeded 100,000 in 2009 when China started its overseas talent introduction plan.
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06 November 2017
China launched two state-of-the-art satellites into space, marking the global network expansion of its Beidou Navigation Satellite System. Beidou will lead the world and outperform the GPS system by around 2020 when Beidou goes global, Chinese space experts said. "Technology has significantly improved the performance of the Beidou-3, with the signal accuracy in space higher than half a meter," said Yang Changfeng, the system's Chief Designer.
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06 November 2017
Early next year, the uncrewed Chinese space laboratory, Tiangong 1, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life, during which most of the laboratory module should burn-up. ESA will host a test campaign to follow the re-entry, which will be conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).
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Tiangong 1 status reports on CMSA website

06 November 2017
China launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space via a single carrier rocket to support its global navigation and positioning network at 19:45 h on 5 November. The satellites were aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket which took off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan. This is the first two BeiDou-3 satellites launched by China, as its self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System officially began to expand into a global network.
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