19 September 2018
On 19 September, at 22:07 h local time, the CZ-3B equipped with the Yuanzheng 1 upper stage, launched two Beidou navigation satellites into orbit. The twin satellites are the 37th and 38th editions of the BeiDou navigation system. After a series of tests and evaluations, they will work together with 12 BeiDou-3 satellites already in orbit.
The twin satellites will provide danger alerts and navigation services for global users. A basic system with 18 orbiting BeiDou-3 satellites will be in place by the end of the year, which will serve countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
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19 September 2018
China plans to launch the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-9 in 2028, said an official of China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 on 18 September. China will launch its first Mars probe in 2020, which is expected to orbit, land and put a rover on the Red Planet in 2021, after ten months of flying. The second Mars mission will be a sample-return mission, scheduled for 2028. China will also probe asteroids and undertake an exploration mission to the Jupiter system around 2030.
He also mentioned that China promotes the cooperation between government and social capital and will improve government procurement of commercial aerospace products and services. A new regulation regarding rocket launchers will be released shortly. Furthermore, China supports open and shared commercial space launch sites.
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18 September 2018
The Institute of Aerospace Information Research has helped Mongolia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Thailand and Belgium to install virtual ground stations as revealed at the fourth International Symposium on Earth Observation for Arid and Semi-Arid Environments, which began in Xining, capital of China's northwestern Qinghai Province, on 17 September. The institute's self-developed virtual ground stations were equipped for receiving near-real time data from China's remote satellite ground stations.
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13 September 2018
About 770 exhibitors from 43 countries and regions will showcase their latest advancements in the aerospace industry at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) will be held from 6 to 11 November in the southern port city of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. Models of China's new generation carrier rockets, the core module of China's space station, the Chang'e 4 lunar probe and relay satellite will also be displayed at the show, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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17 September 2018
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, will start formal operation and open to Chinese astronomers in 2019, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC).
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13 September 2018
A group of Brazilian students will start to receive postgraduate studies this month at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) as part of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS) cooperation programme which turns 30 this year. The Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (RCSSTEAP-China), which was inaugurated at the BUAA in 2014, has offered scholarships for Brazilian students in the master's and PhD programs in space technology.
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