08 October 2022
On 07 October at 21:10 BJT, the CentiSpace S5 and CentiSpace S6 test satellites were launched on board a CZ-11 from an offshore platform in the Yellow Sea. Both satellites are fitted with a LEO satellite navigation enhancement system. The satellites will be used to monitor the performance of the global navigation satellite system in real time, and carry out navigation augmentation and inter-satellite laser communication tests.
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05 October 2022
The research group led by Pan Jianwei from University of Science and Technology of China has realized the experiment on free-space high precision time and frequency dissemination across 113 km for the first time in the world, with dissemination of time stability reaching the femtosecond level, which can meet the time dissemination requirements of the optical clock with the current highest precision. This achievement in basic scientific research is expected to have major applications in the study of fundamental problems in physics, from navigation, to gravitational wave detection, to dark matter search. The technique can not only be directly used in ground-based applications, but could also lay the groundwork for future satellite time-frequency dissemination.
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01 October 2022
The celebrations of China's National Day have for the first time reached orbit, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts living aboard the Tiangong space station sent a message wishing their great motherland a happy birthday. In a video released on 01 October, taikonauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang, and Cai Xuzhe commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China from space.
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30 September 2022
The Wentian lab module has been repositioned to dock with a radial port on the Station's Tianhe core module on 30 September afternoon. CMSA said in a news release that during the hour-long operation that finished at 12:44 BJT, Wentian was moved from the axial port of Tianhe to a radial port of the core module. The maneuver was carried out based on cooperation between astronauts inside Tiangong and ground controllers. After the operation, the Tiangong station is now L-shaped and will remain in that shape until the docking with the Mengtian lab module.
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02 October 2022
CMSA announced on 02 October 2022, that over the next 1 1/2 years it will recruit 12 to 14 new reserve taikonauts for future spaceflight missions. That would become the 4th batch of taikonauts. 7-8 of them will become spacecraft pilots, and 5-6 will be spaceflight engineers and payload specialists, including 2 as payload specialists. CMSA will, for the first time, select payload specialists from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. Currently, the Astronaut Center of China in Beijing is training the third group of Chinese astronauts.
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28 September 2022
Airshow China 2022 will be held from 8 to 13 November in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. A replica of the current Chinese Space Station configuration will be on display. The upcoming 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, Airshow China, will showcase China's cutting-edge technology in the aerospace and national defense sectors. The exhibits will also include China's latest scientific achievements in the field of lunar, Martian and solar probes. Over 740 domestic and overseas enterprises will participate in the exhibition, either on-site or online.
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