steve9728 Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 CASC: The prototype of the "MisrSat-2 (the official name given in Chinese is 'Aid Egypt-2', 援埃及二号卫星）", technical assistance to Egypt, was delivered at the AITC in Egypt. "Recently, two initial prototype satellites (one electrical and one mechanical thermal control) jointly designed and developed by the two countries have completed various test, assembly, and environmental tests at the Egyptian Satellite Assembly and Integration Test Centre (AITC). And are technically qualified for delivery to the Egyptian side." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 (edited) ha interesting (again) That guy's Chinese pretty good need to say. CAS's location will make them the best user of the commercial launch site under construction in Wenchang. They just need to rent a ship instead of diagonal crossing China to JSLC. Edited June 27, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 39 minutes ago, steve9728 said: ha interesting (again) That guy's Chinese pretty good need to say. CAS's location will make them the best user of the commercial launch site under construction in Wenchang. They just need to rent a ship instead of diagonal crossing China to JSLC. I'm a subscriber to his English language channel on Chinese space news. Seems fairly balanced and free from state influences. The episodes are well organized and he is a good communicator with a decent grasp of the technology at a journalism level anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 (edited) From Tiangong TV S05E05: "The astronauts have captured the sparkling scenery for you" Edited June 29, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 Emmmm... yeah, why is it so expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 CNS: The Wenchang commercial launch sites are expected to launch 40~50 times per year in the future. ... "Currently, the launch tower of site No.1 is ongoing the installation of the mount base for the rotating platform. Construction of No.2 and 3 are being accelerated." ... "Dong Chenghua, Executive Deputy Director of Wenchang International Space City Administration, said that Wenchang International Space City has completed nearly 3.7 billion RMB of investment in infrastructure construction. Construction of talent housing, commercial offices, and other urban complex projects has begun, and the Tsinghua Affiliated School Wenchang and Tongji Wenchang Hospital are less than a 10-minute drive from the park. At present, the head enterprises and institutes of the rocket, satellite, and data industry chain have settled in the park, and the ecology of the industry chain in the space city has gradually taken shape. In the first quarter of 2023, the park achieved a business income of RMB 4.065 billion, 3.39 times that of the same period last year." ... "With the rapid development of China's space industry, the public's enthusiasm for space tourism is soaring. Each space launch in Wenchang attracts a large number of tourists, ranging from as few as 50,000 to as many as 180,000 at one time. Wenchang will build a space theme park at Tongguling (a hill to the northeast of the Wenchang launch site. Around 8km from the launch tower). Use it as a major engine for tourism in Wenchang. 'We are adding new engines to traditional industries and urban development, and these engines will bring about a sea change in Wenchang's development.'" (I think the most people one was the launch of Tianwen-1 or Tiangong Core Module because the weather for these two launches was pretty good) Actually, the news that I expected is the reclamation of the sea for the new land for the big heavy rocket. But now this news sounds like more hotels should be built: There is a Hilton hotel there, just 5km from the launch tower. The rooms facing the tower are normally about 300 RMB a night, and around the launch date, they go up to 3,000 RMB a night - for any intents and purposes I can't really accept 3,000 RMB a night for the Hilton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 One of the best patches this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) Some social: I'm thinking about, well, we have the expensive French payload already. How expensive it would be if Switzerland and Italy also want to do some in-depth research in the future? Edited July 2, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) Landspace's ZQ-2 Y2 rocket is been planned to launch on 12 July afternoon at JSLC launch site No.96 By the same link, they also mention that the CZ-8G (G stands for 改gǎi, 'improved' in English) will be launched at commercial launch site No.1 in Wenchang on June 2024. The official word on the improvements is that they increased the 900km SSO capacity to 6.8t. Edited July 2, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 (edited) The troop guarding Wenchang Space Launch Site put a notice to reassure the public of a military drill nearby the launch site Spoiler Via. https://weibo.com/1914919243/N8aSnfaFi Spoiler While a little exercise wouldn't be something bad, I really can't imagine what kind of people would plan to mess with this place. Edited July 3, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 (edited) According to the wiki, the current VABs are 99.4m and 96.6m in height. The crane height in the plant is 81.5m. The launch tower at Site 101 is 91.7m and 201 is 85.8m. CZ-9 and CZ-10 will be around 114m and 90m. So, the day we see the new VAB, the new launch tower, and the new launch site is the day we can solidly confirm which option CNSA chooses for the new heavy rocket. Edited July 4, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 SPACE-PIONEER: "We have completed a Series C funding round of several hundred million RMB. In the four years since our inception, we have raised a cumulative total of RMB 3 billion in funding." Spoiler 100 million RMB can build a pretty good-looking primary school at Tier 1 city's centre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steve9728 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Looks like KSA wants some remote sensing satellites but not too big: MinoSpace can provide SAR and optical high-resolution remote sensing satellite platforms in the 200kg level, Galactic Energy's Ceres-1 can take 400kg to LEO, and CETC is really good at the radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 LandSpace: ZQ-2 Y2 rocket has competed for the transfer and erection on 6 July 2023 at LandSpace Rocket Range (the #96 launch pad of JSLC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Looks like the recovery of the first stage has been tested physically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 The first satellite for technical validation for the China satellite network project was launched by CZ-2C/YZ-1S rocket at JSLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 14 hours ago, steve9728 said: The first satellite for technical validation for the China satellite network project was launched by CZ-2C/YZ-1S rocket at JSLC. But the interesting part I think is: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 (edited) DSEL (Deep Space Exploration Lab) publish the list of the international payloads which will go with Chang'e-6: A cube satellite "ICUBE-Q" from Pakistan The radon detector "DORN" from France Negative ion analyzer "NILS" from Sweden/ESA Laser angle reflectors from Italy/ESA Only the cube satellite will be mounted on the orbiter. The rest of them will be mounted on the lander. The development of "ICUBE-Q" is led by the Institute of Space Technology of Pakistan. Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics participated in the development. Relevant scientific exploration will be carried out in Lunar orbit. The development of "DORN" is led by IRAP. The Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences participated. Alpha particle spectrometry will be used to detect radon isotopes on the lunar surface and to study the transport and dispersion mechanisms of volatiles on the lunar surface, in lunar dust, and in outer lunar space. The development of "NILS" is led by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and sponsored by ESA. The National Space Science Centre of the CAS participated. The interaction of anaerobes with the plasma environment and the physical mechanisms of the escape layer on the surface of anaerobes will be studied. The development of the laser angle reflectors is led by INFN - Laboratori pedantonali di Frascati and also sponsored by ESA. The Institute of Space Innovation of CAS participated. It will provide support for high-precision positioning on the lunar surface and lunar satellite fixed-orbit navigation and will be permanently stationed on the back of the Moon as a ranging beacon to carry out multidisciplinary applied research on the Earth-Moon dynamics academic table, lunar physical liberation, and lunar solid tides. Edited July 10, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Yep, the development of the techs for the space station wasn't too shorter than the entire Shenzhou project. The second photo he post is a PhD thesis by Zhang Chongfeng (张崇峰), Deputy Chief Designer of the manned spacecraft and space laboratory, director of the Space Structure and Mechanism Technology Laboratory of CASC, titled Research on the Design Principle of the Space Docking Mechanism Cushioning System and Optimisation Design Methods, published in September 1998. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 T-1D. Wish all the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 The Zhuque-1 and Zhuque-2: via.https://weibo.com/5275290873/N9pgHBmLx Actually, I highly recommend having a look at that guy's Weibo. He drew many of these kinds of pictures about rockets from China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) Success! The ZQ-2 rocket became the first commercial methalox rocket launched successfully in the world! Edited July 12, 2023 by steve9728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sevenperforce Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 First methane-powered rocket to orbit...on my birthday! Not SpaceX, but not half bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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