China space program News
The PRSS-1 will be used for land and resources surveying and has an information security design.
A memorandum of the cooperation was signed by the NSSC and the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy on Tuesday.
In September 2016, scientists at China's CNSA space agency admitted to having lost control of the lab, saying that it would be crash-landing on Earth.
This is a move that has not been made by anyone or any nation before and with this mission, China will outdo the historical achievements of the US and the USSR.
A Long March-2D rocket carried the satellite into space.
The three satellites -- Jilin-1 04, Jilin-1 05 and Jilin-1 06 -- were launched at 12.50 p.m., from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi province.
Tiangong was launched by China as part of a plan to show off its position as a global superpower.
The Long March-5 rocket made its maiden flight in November 2016 from Wenchang, successfully sending its payload into pre-set orbit.
Liu Xiaoqun, from the moon and deep-space exploration department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), said on Tuesday that a planning meeting was held in Qinghai province to determine the base`s development
The satellite sent quantum keys to ground stations in Xinglong, in north China's Hebei province, and Nanshan, near Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur region.
Zhongxing-9A was launched aboard the Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at 12.11 a.m. (local time), reports Xinhua news agency.
An 18-centimetre-tall cylinder will carry potato seeds and silkworm eggs to be incubated.
Weighing 2.5-tonnes, the telescope dubbed Insight, was sent into an orbit of 550 km above the Earth to help scientists better understand the evolution of black holes, and the strong magnetic fields and the interiors of pulsars.
Compared with X-ray astronomical satellites of other countries, HXMT has larger detection area, broader energy range and wider field of view.
In the third docking, Tianzhou-1 will use fast-docking technology.
It is stated to be one of world's largest cosmic ray facilities.
China came late to crewed space flight, launching its first man into space in 2003, but has advanced rapidly since then.
Earlier reports said the new Chinese space station will initially be much smaller than the ISS, which weighs 420 tonnes, but could be expanded for future scientific research and international cooperation.
According to Efe, the priority of the scientists during this mission will be to detect asteroids close to Earth to calculate the probability of their colliding with the planet.
Research on the planet's structure, composition and environment would be conducted.
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