China's Space Program Thread II

[by78]

Egypt and Bahrain have signed a cooperation contract to co-develop with China a hyperspectral imager to be carried by Chang'e-7's orbiter. The imager will be used to identify and analyze lunar surface materials.

 

[by78]

A Long March 3B successfully launched a Pakistani communications satellite. This was the 524th flight of the Long March series.

The recently launched Long March 3B had pipes fabricated using aluminum-steel heterogenous inertia friction stir welding process developed by the 1st Academy of CASC, which is a first for China.

 

[tphuang]

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ZTE, Huawei and Galaxy space have won the bid for China mobiles experimental satellite project (looks like re-usable satellite)

 

[by78]

Galactic Energy has begun construction on a new R&D and production base for solid rockets in Ziyang, Sichuan. The base will eventually cover some 89 acres.

That was fast. The first phase of Galactic Energy's new solid rocket production base will be completed and put into production next month. The first phase occupies some 40 acres and contains launch vehicle assembly and component production plants, as well as testing facilities.

 

[by78]

Tianbing

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that it has finished assembling the Tianlong-3 launch vehicle. A full-system hot test run of the first stage will be carried out this month before the maiden flight.

The first stage of Tianlong-3 is being transported to Tianbing's test bench in Henan for its first full-system hot test.

 

[by78]

The Sino-French SVOM satellite has been packed and shipped to the Xichang center. Launch date is June 24th.

The Sino-French SVOM (Space-based Multi-band Astronomical Variable Object Monitor) is scheduled to be launched on June 22 from Xichang using a Long March 2C.

 

[escobar]

OneLinQ launches china's first civilian satellite internet terminal for high-speed connectivity via Apstar-6D satellite. Two versions available: Standard and Pro, offering up to 20Mbps uplink and 100Mbps downlink bandwidth

 

[escobar]

The Chinese robotic Space Plane 3 and Object G: proximity operations

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[taxiya]

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ZTE, Huawei and Galaxy space have won the bid for China mobiles experimental satellite project (looks like re-usable satellite)

I think you may be confused by the term 再生试验星 for re-usable. I am certain it is not in the sense of re-usable rocket that somehow the satellite can be returned to earth.

There are two types of satellite in the bid. One is 透明转发试验星 which is transparent relay, the other being 再生试验星 which is "regeneration" as in signal regeneration. Transparent relay is a simpler process mostly to amplify the incoming signal to forward to the next point. Regeneration is more complicated which may include decoding, unpacking and packing and coding again. Anyway regeneration is not re-usable.

 

[Blitzo]

But fine I'll shut up.

Thank you.

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