05 July 2021
The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, including a planetarium, will open on 17 July. Covering an area of approximately 58,600 m2, the museum is located in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Lingang Special Area. It is a branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. Tests were carried out on 5 July, while the official website and WeChat account of the museum have been launched as well. The museum will open to the public as of 18 July.
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04 July 2021
Jean Deville explains the latest and earlier release of Zhurong imagery and video footage while Blaine Curcio introduces Landspace's rocket facility in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Jean then dwells on the current state of progress in the production of the ZQ-2 rocket with giving many technical details. At the end of the pod cast, both bring the audience up to speed with what is going on at Deep Blue Aerospace and China's recent CZ-2D space launch from Taiyuan.
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04 July 2021
Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo conducted the 1st EVA from the Tianhe module on 4 July 2021. Both have been outside by 11:02 BJT and worked in the open cosmos for 7 hours. Nie Haisheng stayed inside. Supported by Beijing Aerospace Control Centre in Beijing, the taikonauts verified the reliability and capability of hardware involved in extravehicular operation, demonstrated their adaptability and collaboration with the robotic arm, and examined the performance of their extravehicular suits. The operation laid a crucial foundation for the next spacewalks. It was the first Chinese spacewalk after the very first one 13 years ago in 2008.
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02 July 2021
In this special edition of Dongfang Hour, Jean Deville explains the types of cameras inside and outside the Chinese Space Station CSS.
He also mentions the data download rate of the Tianhe core module which is 1.2 Gbps = 150 MB/s and with that it is almost double as much as from the ISS. He also explains in good detail how the communication link is technically done.
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