20 October 2017
The first satellite jointly developed by the Chinese and French space agencies, CFOSAT (China-France Oceanography Satellite), will be launched from China in the second half of 2018. The China-French Oceanic Satellite is being tested in a Beijing-based assembly testing center of the China National Space Administration. The 700-kilogram satellite will be primarily used for waves forecast and monitoring, as well as research in floating ice, polar glacier and ocean dynamics.The satellite will carry a wave-scatterometer spectrometer developed by the French space agency and a wind-measurement scatterometer by Chinese scientists. It will be sent into space by a Chinese Long March carrier rocket.
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18 October 2017
Space exploration is part of the "China Dream" promoted and driven by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
During his tenure the Chinese space programme not only grew but also diversified signifcantly.
If you would like to have a look at the achievements of the lastest five years, the following link guides you to an infographic.
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Jing Haipeng, is one of the delegates to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which starts on Wednesday, 18 October.

17 October 2017
Chinese researchers have played a significant role in opening a new era of "Multimessenger astronomy," marked by the first detection of both electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves and light in the same cosmic collision.
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17 October 2017
Chinese scientists on 16 October announced the observation of the "optical counterpart" of gravitational waves coming from the merger of two binary neutron stars using the Chinese survey telescope AST3-2 in Antarctica. The gravitational waves were first discovered by the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 17 August. The Chinese telescope independently observed optical signals resulting from the merger the next day, according to the Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy. It was the first time humans have detected gravitational waves and the corresponding electromagnetic phenomena resulting from a binary neutron star merger.
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