09 December 2022
Gaofen 5-01A, was launched on 9 December at 02:31 BJT aboard a CZ-2D rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre and entered its planned 705 km orbit successfully. Gaofen 5-01A is a hyperspectral satellite that will be used for remote sensing and applications in diverse fields, such as pollution reduction, environmental monitoring, natural resource surveys, and climate change studies. The satellite will help improve the country's hyperspectral observation capacity in areas such as environmental protection, land, weather, agriculture, and disaster alleviation.
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10 December 2022
"China plans to build the space station into a state-level space lab supporting long astronaut stays and large-scale scientific, technological, and application experiments," said Zhou Jianping, Chief Designer of China's manned space programme. With that the Tiangong space station will get busier exploring space science and technology in the following years, as the newly launched Shenzhou-15 mission wraps up the last stage of its construction and kicks off the first stage of its application and development.
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07 December 2022
On 07 December the new VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) test satellite was launched on board a KZ-11 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite will be mainly used for communications test and key technologies verification of the VDES and the automatic identification system (AIS). It was the 23rd flight of a KZ-11.
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05 December 2022
The 3rd batch of space scientific experimental samples from the Tiangong space station arrived in Beijing on 05 December, following the return of the SZ-14 crew. The returned experimental samples include 3 cold packs of rice and Arabidopsis, and a bag with 4 boxes of container-free materials. They were delivered to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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