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China's key laboratory of spaceflight dynamic technology passed the test running assessment in Beijing days ago, which marks that China has initially established a technologically advanced spaceflight dynamics technology research system.

The key laboratory of spaceflight dynamics technology gives an important support to the pre-research of China's manned spaceflight and deep space exploration flight control technologies, and has become an important talent incubator in the field of spaceflight dynamics research.

Jointly approved by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the General Armaments Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on December 13, 2010, the key laboratory of spaceflight dynamics technology was inaugurated on Mar. 29, 2011. The laboratory is jointly run by the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) and the Northwestern Poly-technical University (NPU).

According to Tang Geshi, director of the laboratory, since its trial running, the laboratory has focused on the research on spaceflight orbit determination and analysis, deep space exploration orbit monitor and control and spaceflight planning and control. Up to now, breakthroughs have been made in the above three research fields.
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An asteroid has been named after a space science university - the eighth asteroid with a Chinese university name - according to China's National Astronomical Observatories.

The Beihang Asteroid has been approved by the Small Bodies Naming Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), said Zhao Gang, a senior official with the observatories.

Beihang is the Chinese abbreviation of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The university celebrates its 60th founding anniversary this year.

A sculpture was unveiled Thursday at the campus of the university to mark the naming.

With a diameter of one to 10 km, the asteroid numbered 09830 is orbiting in an asteroid bell between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid was discovered by Chinese scientists in October 1995.

Seven asteroids were previously named after Chinese universities, including Peking University, Nanjing University, Beijing Normal University, Shandong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Tsinghua University.
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The "Meridian Project," a massive scientific research project that will monitor weather in space, became fully operational on Tuesday.

The Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project is the country's first space weather monitoring project and will lead the field in multiple areas, according to a statement from the National Space Science Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

"The project will help China's space program achieve major breakthroughs, enhance the country's competence in space and safeguard the security of the nation's space activities," said Wu Ji, general manager of the project and director of the National Space Science Center.

The project began in January 2008, providing forecasts and warnings for the Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 missions in 2011 and the Shenzhou-9 mission in June, according to the statement.

The project aims to "investigate space weather cause-consequence chains in solar-terrestrial space, as well as understand the processes behind catastrophic space weather events and the regional characteristics of the environment above China's territory," said the statement.

A large-scale ground-based monitoring system composed of 15 stations will be set up as part of the project, according to the CAS. A comprehensive multi-layered and inter-disciplinary survey and exploration of space will be conducted as well, it said.

Another similar project is in the works. Authorities are creating plans for the International Space Weather Meridian Circle Program, which will consist of another series of ground-based monitoring stations that will "greatly enhance China's ability to monitor the space environment worldwide," the statement said.

The stations will monitor a large area between Russia and Australia, as well as other regions, the statement said.

"Most countries in these regions have applauded the project," the statement said.
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The two Earth observation payloads on the SJ-9 sats (a high resolution panchromatic/multi-spectral CCD camera on sat A and a push-broom far infrared camera on sat B) has started taking data on October 18 for the CRESDA. Photos of Odessa (Texas) and Liuzhou (China) from the SJ-9A CCD camera.

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According to an interview with the Chief Engineer of the Beidou program, once the G6 sat is positioned at 110.5° E to replace the G2 which is out of service, the second step of the Beidou program will be completed as planned. Launches will resume in 2014 with the new platform DFH-3B. The first MEO sat using the new platforrm are already being tested.

[video=youtube;20Uj-j5eBpM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Uj-j5eBpM[/video]
 
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