China Space Military：Recon, Satcom, Navi, ASAT/BMD, Orbital Vehicle, SLV, etc.

[TaiShang]

At the 2018 Shanghai Navigation Industry and Technology Development Forum it was announced that delivery companies STO, YTO, ZTO, Yunda and SF will use BeiDou services, now accurate to less than 1 meter.

Of course it makes sense. National companies should use national services so that value is generated to continue to invest and innovate.

 

[samsara]

Number of visible Beidou navigation satellites (BDS) BEFORE and AFTER the BDS system starting its GLOBAL service on 27 December 2018.

The vast yellow color within the ASIA-PACIFIC region shows the higher visibility of the BeiDou navigation satellites there. In general the region covered by the Belt and Road Initiative (the New Silk Road or OBOR) will get the better BDS coverage at the moment until its entire satellite constellation is fully completed before the end of 2020. By then the BDS is supposed to have 35 satellites in operation in total, and will be the one operating the most satellites among the four GNSS!

Credit to Dafeng Cao for providing the charts.

 

[Maxpane]

@Beast @wanglaokan @LKJ86

 

[samsara]

China's Chang'e-4 probe soft-lands on moon's far side

Source: Xinhua | 2019-01-03 12:55:40 | Editor: Yamei

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A simulated landing process of Chang'e-4 lunar probe is seen through the monitor at Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 3, 2019. China's Chang'e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday, becoming the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon's uncharted side never visible from Earth. The probe, comprising a lander and a rover, landed at the preselected landing area on the far side of the moon at 10:26 a.m. Beijing Time (0226 GMT), the China National Space Administration announced. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's Chang'e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday, becoming the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon's uncharted side never visible from Earth.

The probe, comprising a lander and a rover, landed at the preselected landing area at 177.6 degrees east longitude and 45.5 degrees south latitude on the far side of the moon at 10:26 a.m. Beijing Time, the China National Space Administration announced.

For more pics see at below link. There is some glitch at PDF file server, I couldn't embed neatly the uploaded pics along with the texts atm from my phone.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/03/c_137716841.htm

 

[JSCh]

Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Payloads of GF-5 Satellite Pass On-orbit Test with High Performance
Jan 03, 2019

The core payloads of on-board GF-5 satellite, developed by Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, passed the on-obit test with all standards reached or even surpassed, according to official release from the test team.

These three payloads kicked off their in-orbit tests with GF-5's launching in May, 2018, aiming to support China's atmospheric research and its pollution prevention.

After more than six-month's operation, it has successfully retrieved trace gas information over China by obtaining global distribution of atmospheric trace gases and multi-spectral and multi-angle Polarized images as well as retrieving products related to atmospheric research.

Except for its high performance, Environment Monitoring Instrument, or EMI, one of the three payloads, served China International Import Expo in November 2018 for air quality guarantee plan.

The high spatial-temporal pollutants distribution information collected by EMI assisted government's decision-making and evaluation of air quality guarding during the event.

Actually, the team undertook quite a few related payload development tasks during the test.

One of typical payloads is the Ultraviolet Hyper-spectral Pollution-gas Monitor carried on High-Precision Greenhouse-Gas Comprehensive Exploration Satellite, which focused on detection of pollution gases NO2, SO2, O3, etc.

In addition to inheriting the design of EMI payload on GF-5 satellite, its performance has been greatly improved.

The spatial resolution of the payload has obtained a great raise from 48 km*13 km to 7 km*7 km and thus enormously improved the capability of the air pollution remote sensing in China.


Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Payloads of GF-5 Satellite Pass On-orbit Test with High Performance---Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

[samsara]

VIDEO: China's Chang'e-4 makes historic landing on moon's far side (2019-01-03)

COOL CLIP

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f33597a4e31457a6333566d54/share.html

 

[samsara]

'Dark side' of moon seen from surface for first time — Uploaded by Channel 4 News (UK) on Jan 03.

Note: Channel 4 News is a UK TV Channel, watch closely on how far the program host / female moderator, Alexandra Stickings (a member of RUSI, Britain), was trying hard (very hard indeed considering the very tight airtime) to ignite or stir the dialog involving the space experts to her intended "mission" in this quite time-limited feature. Of course the Channel 4 News is anything but being kind to the "Yellow Peril"

Just read the many fascinating comments in the commentary section.

YouTube video

 

[JSCh]

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Tomorrow morning at 1:10am BJT.

China and the world first launch of 2019.

Chinasat-2D communication satellite by CZ-3B from Xichang.

 

[JSCh]

China launches Zhongxing-2D satellite
Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-11 02:52:50|Editor: zh

China sends Zhongxing-2D satellite into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 1:11 a.m., Jan. 11, 2019. The satellite has entered the preset orbit. (Xinhua/Liang Keyan)

XICHANG, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China sent Zhongxing-2D satellite into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 1:11 a.m. Friday.

The satellite has entered the preset orbit.

The Chinese-made communication and broadcasting satellite will provide transmission service for the country's radio, television stations and cable television networks.

The Zhongxing-2D satellite and Long March-3B carrier rocket were developed and produced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

This was the 298th mission of the Long March rocket series.

 

[JSCh]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2070057276412949

Spreadtrum - now Unisoc
on Saturday

Introducing #UNISOC’s four-in-one IVY 2651 chipset, the leading #chipset to support the new generation of BDS-3. The #IVY2651 supports WiFi 2x2 801.11ac, #Bluetooth 5, the GNSS 5-constellation (GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/BDS/BDS-3), and FM.

 

[yusheng]

 

[JSCh]

航空航天港9ifly
14分钟前 来自 iPhone客户端
#发射消息# 2019年1月21日13时42分，在酒泉卫星发射中心，长征十一号运载火箭成功将我司“吉林一号”光谱01、02星发射升空，卫星顺利进入预定轨道，发射任务取得圆满成功。

9ifly.cn
14 minutes ago
#发射消息# At 13:42 on January 21, 2019, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the Long March 11 carrier rocket successfully launched the "Jilin No. 1" spectrum 01 and 02 satellites, and the satellites successfully entered the preset orbit. The launch mission was a complete success.

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林晓弈
15分钟前 来自 航爱网牌Android
19年01月21日13时42分，该院抓总研制的长征十一号遥六火箭在酒泉卫星发射中心点火升空，成功将4颗卫星送入预定轨道。此次发射的4颗卫星中，2颗主星是来自吉林长光卫星技术有限公司的“吉林一号”光谱01、02星，主要为林业系统和海洋领域提供遥感数据和产品服务。
同时发射的还有天仪研究院自主研制的潇湘一号03星。这是一颗6U新技术试验卫星，设计寿命一年，计划开展基于工业镜头＋商业高性能探测器的遥感成像技术验证。星上还搭载了该公司自主研制的一种被动离轨装置——离轨帆，它能在立方星寿命末期，采用低成本制动帆装置使卫星快速脱离轨道，避免立方星失效后成为太空垃圾。
此外，本次任务还搭载发射了来自北京零重空间技术有限公司一颗小卫星。

林晓弈
15 min Ago

At 13:42 on January 21, 19, the Long March No. 11 rocket developed by the institute was ignited at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and successfully sent four satellites into the orbit. Among the four satellites launched this time, two main satellites are the Jilin No.1 spectrum 01 and 02 stars from Jilin Chang guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd., which provide remote sensing data and product services for the forestry system and the marine field.

At the same time, there is also the Xiaoxiang No.1 03 satellite independently developed by SpaceTy Research Institute. This is a 6U new technology test satellite with a design life of one year. It is planned to carry out remote sensing imaging- technology verification based on industrial lens + commercial high performance sensors. The satellite is also equipped with a passive de-orbit device independently developed by the company - de-orbit sail, which can use the low-cost drag sail device to quickly disengage the satellite from the orbit at the end of the life of the cubic satellite, avoiding the cubic satellite becoming a space junk.

In addition, this mission has also launched a small satellite from Beijing ZeroG Space Technology Co., Ltd.

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China launches two satellites for multispectral imaging
Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-21 17:47:49|Editor: ZX

JIUQUAN, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- China launched two satellites for multispectral imaging on a Long March-11 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 1:42 pm on Monday.

The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit, according to the center.

The two satellites, part of the Jilin-1 satellite family, were independently developed by Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd.

Loaded with a multi-spectral imager and an infrared camera, they will form a network with the 10 previously launched Jilin-1 satellites, providing remote sensing data and services for forestry, shipping and resource and environmental monitoring.

The launch also carried two test satellites. Lingque-1A is the first verifying satellite for the Lingque Constellation planned by Beijing ZeroG Technology Co., Ltd. It can take photos of Earth, conduct high-speed data transmission and inter-satellite communication.

Xiaoxiang-1 03 is a technology test satellite developed by Spacety Co., Ltd. based in Changsha, Hunan Province. It will be used to verify radio communication and small remote sensing experiments.

It is the 299th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.

 

[JSCh]

 

[cirr]

https://m.weibo.cn/s/video/index?ob...1409573&segment_id=&blog_mid=4330951989748386

 

[JSCh]

Less than 12 hours after launch, Jilin-1 satellite released its first photo.

摄于刚果，班顿杜
Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.​