26 April 2018 (posted: 14 August)
On 26 April, the Space Project Development Co., Ltd. of China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp was established in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province. This company will build up an ecological circle for satellite industry and forge a production force that will produce hundreds of satellites a year through combining advantages of the large-scale satellite manufacturing in the Wuhan National Aerospace Industry Base.
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14 August 2018
The 6th High-Tech Expo will be held in Mianyang Science and Technology City from 6 to 9 September 2018.
Around 10,000 national and international guests from the industries, inter-ministerial coordination group members of the Mianyang Science and Technology City and representatives of investment and financing institutions will be invited to attend the meeting. This year's expo is themed: “military-civilian integration, technological innovation, openness and cooperation”. The 70,000-square-meter exhibition area is divided into five sections.
A China BeiDou Application Conference will also be organised and industry professionals, scholars and experts in the sector of BeiDou development and application will be invited to exchange ideas on the technology and application of navigation, remote sensing, communications and other satellite systems to promote the sharing and comprehensive utilisation of satellite data.
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09 August 2018
China opened its first space cultivation seed research center and laboratory on 9 August in Yangling, in northwestern Shaanxi province. The center is a resource base for space breeding and crop and other seed selection, Securities Times reported. “2018 is the 31th year that China has conducted space breeding experiments. China successfully launched the ninth retrievable satellite which carried crop seeds of pepper, wheat and rice, thus starting China’s space breeding practice on Aug. 5, 1987” said Guo Rui, director of the Yangling Demonstration Garden for Modern Plant Introduction and Breeding.
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08 August 2018
OneSpace Technology CEO Shu Chang led the employees at OneSpace－the first private enterprise in China licensed to design and make carrier rockets－in the successful production of a small rocket launched in mid-May. The success generated a wave of media reports about Shu and his company, with many articles calling the Beijing startup China's answer to SpaceX. Shu said he does not fear rivals in the industry and hopes that more private companies join the field. "The more players involved in this sphere, the better and healthier the market is likely to become," he said. "I look forward to seeing more participation from private firms." The only advice he would give to peers is that "they carefully consider their development paths and profitability". However, he said only two or three private Chinese rocket enterprises will survive the next five years of fierce competition in the market, and he is sure OneSpace will be among them. "Of course, OneSpace will not fall down, because we have a united team, advanced technologies and good products," he said. "We will definitely thrive in this field in the coming 20 years."
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10 August 2018
An asteroid has been named after China's Tianjin University, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Tianjindaxue (Tianjin University), coded 8917, was discovered in March 1996 by astronomers with the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong observatory in north China, according to a recent IAU communique. Two other asteroids have been named after Chinese space scientist Guo Yonghuai and his wife Li Pei, an applied linguist, with approval from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), according to the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). The two asteroids, No. 212796 and No. 212797, were discovered in October 2007 by a Chinese researcher from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
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08 August 2018
China's commercial satellite launch company has completed in-orbit delivery of communication satellite "APSTAR-6C" to its Hong Kong customer. It was delivered to Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Co., Ltd, on 07 August, according to China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a commercial agency authorized by the Chinese government to operate commercial launches, provide satellite delivery services and international cooperation. With a designed life of 15 years, APSTAR-6C will provide communication and satellite broadcasting services to customers across the Asia-Pacific region, and will have a big potential market for providing services to support the Belt and Road Initiative.
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