28 April 2020
Pan Jianwei, Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, is the winner of the prestigious ZEISS Research Award 2020. He is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of quantum technology. One of the most remarkable results of Pan Jianwei's research is the distribution of entangled photons over a distance of 1,200 km, by far the longest distance ever reached. He achieved this using a light source that is installed on a satellite and emits entangled photons.
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28 April 2020
Scientists at FAST have embarked on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In a recent study, the team of FAST said the FAST telescope has the potential to detect Earth-like civilizations on thousands of exoplanets, addressing the possibility of the presence of technological civilizations beyond our planet. They said FAST also has the potential to detect whether the neighboring Andromeda galaxy "m31-andromeda" has more advanced technology and civilizations.
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28 April 2020
Water clarity is a reliable indicator for quantifying eutrophic status, said researchers from the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They collected 2,152 samples from 34 field campaigns from 2013 to 2018. Based on both measured data and Landsat OLI remote sensing data, they developed regression models to map water clarity with a 30-meter resolution at a national scale.
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27 April 2020
China is constructing the largest steerable radio telescope in Asia with a 70-m-diameter antenna to receive data from its first Mars exploration mission which is expected to be launched this year. The construction of the telescope began in October 2018 in Wuqing District of northern China's Tianjin and is expected to be completed this year. Many new technologies have been utilized to improve efficiency and reduce interference noises
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photos of the antenna manufacturing in Wuqing
27 April 2020
A manufacturing complex for China's Kuaizhou-series carrier rockets in Wuhan, Hubei province, will be put into operation soon, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the major investor in the facility, said last week. All the infrastructure for the Kuaizhou Rocket Complex at the Wuhan National Space Industry Base has been built and is undergoing qualification checks, the State-owned defense conglomerate said in a statement issued on 24 April
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25 April 2020
China’s space programme became much more transparent and accessible over the last decade. But still, there is no other and in particular no better standard work about China’s efforts in space than “China in Space - The Great Leap Forward” by Irish space author and analyst Brian Harvey.
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