26 November 2019
The 3rd progress meeting on the implementing of the Letter of Intent Between the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to Promote Regional Meteorological Cooperation and co-build the Belt-and-Road was held in Beijing on 19 November. The meeting reviewed the achieved results and it was hoped that both sides could harness cooperative platforms, consolidate cooperation in Fengyun meteorological satellites serving international users, advancing the implementation of WMO regional programmes and supporting seamless Earth system research, to make contributions to elevating the disaster preparedness capacity building of countries along Belt and Road.
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30 November 2019
China's first seismo-electromagnetic satellite Zhangheng 1 (CSES - China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite), a Chinese-Italian space cooperation, has obtained valuable electromagnetic data. Zhangheng 1 has obtained information about global ground artificial sources, magnetic storms and signals of earthquakes above 7 magnitude. It also helps with understanding the coupling mechanisms of the lithosphere, atmosphere and ionosphere. China is expected to have three electromagnetic satellites in orbit by 2022.
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30 November 2019
Medical experts of the Aerospace Center Hospital in Beijing are playing an indispensable role in the Space Station programme. They are conducting extensive research to prepare Chinese astronauts for the coming space station mission. According to government plans, China will start putting together its first manned space station around 2020. In the first step, a Long March 5B carrier rocket will put the station's core module into orbit that year. Next, other components and astronauts will be ferried to the core module to assemble the station.
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28 November 2019
On Thursday, 5 December 2019, Prof. Alvaro Giménez (CSIC Foundation, Spain), will give a talk on "Life in the Universe" at TusStar Coffee in Haidian District, Beijing. The "Understanding Science" series of public talks is organised by the UK Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and the International Space Science Institute - Beijing (ISSI-BJ). Its goal is to make a broader public aware of today’s accomplishments in research through short scientific lectures in English (popularisation talks) as well as to have an opportunity to talk with either international or Chinese scientists currently carrying out research in China, in a friendly environment.
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28 November 2019
In spring this year, a team of the Washington-based "Science and Technology Policy Institute" had a tour of the Chinese commercial space sector. As an outcome, the report: "Evaluation of China's Commercial Space Sector" was published in September. Using original documents and first-hand Chinese-language interviews with Chinese companies and China’s industry experts, the report provides a review of the current landscape of China’s nascent but growing commercial space sector.
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28 November 2019
China sent the new Earth observation satellite Gaofen-12 into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on 28 November at 7:52 a.m. (Beijing Time). The satellite was launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. It was the 320th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
As part of the country's high-definition Earth observation project, the microwave remote sensing satellite is capable of providing photographs with a resolution of better than a meter.
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