14 April 2020
ExPace is scheduled to launch its next Kuaizhou-1A rocket as part of the Xingyun-2 01 and 02 mission. The launch window for the Communications mission is on 15 April 2020 00:00:00 UTC from Launch Area 4 (?), in Jiuquan. UPDATE: Friday, 17 April 2020 - Date and time: TBD / UPDATE2: Thursday, 30 April 2020 - Date and time: TBD
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13 April 2020
Chinese space industry insiders on 13 April debunked Western media claims that attest China's recent rocket launch failures to US chip export restrictions on China, pointing out that the country's rocket control systems have mastered complete localization for a long time, and China's space development sector is independent of any Western influence.
German public broadcaster DW's Chinese language channel on Saturday cited a Taiwan-based military expert, who floated a conspiracy theory alleging the rising failure rate of China's space industry as being caused by US chip export restrictions as part of the US-led trade war against China.
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14 April 2020
A feasibility report for the FAST scientific research and data processing centre, to be built in Guizhou Province, has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.
With a total investment of roughly 170 million RMB (24.14 million USD), the centre for China Sky Eye, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope known as FAST, will facilitate three scientific research frameworks - observation, scientific research and data - providing support for the storage and calculation of massive data generated by long-term operations, media reported.
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09 April 2020
China's launch mission on the Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying a communication satellite of Indonesia, Palapa-N1, suffered a failure on 9 April. The rocket blasted off at 19:46 h Beijing Time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rocket worked in normal conditions in the first-stage and second-stage. And abnormal conditions happened in the third-stage.
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more detailed report on the SCMP: Chinese Long March-3B rocket fails during launch of Indonesian satellite
11 April 2020
Blaine Curcio looks into the impact of the recent launch failure of the Long March-3B rocket - carrying the Palapa-N1 satellite - onto the Chinese satellite export efforts as well as onto the Indonesian satellite communications (satcom) market.
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06 April 2020
China is expected to launch the last satellite for its BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System in May from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The new satellite is the 55th satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. It arrived at the launch site in Xichang on 4 April, where it will be tested, assembled and fueled before the launch. The BDS family satellite is a geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite.
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