Tag «AIR & SPACE»

China-made detecting aircraft for remote sensing delivered

Photo taken on Nov. 27, 2019 shows a Xinzhou-60 aircraft for remote sensing in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. China’s aircraft maker Xi’an Aircraft Industry Co. (XAC) has delivered two high-performance Xinzhou-60 aircraft for remote sensing to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for aerial observation missions. Ding Yaxiu, chief designer of the aircraft, said …

China launches new Earth observation satellite

An earth observation satellite, Gaofen-12, is launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, capital of north China’s Shanxi Province, Nov. 28, 2019. (Photo by Zheng Taotao/Xinhua)   An earth observation satellite, Gaofen-12, is launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, capital …

Chinese astronomers discover dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxies

Photo:Xinhua    Chinese astronomers have discovered a special population of dwarf galaxies that mainly consist of baryons with radii of up to tens of thousands of light-years, where they are expected to be dominated by dark matter. The discovery, made by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking …

Upholding spirit of multilateralism in Int’l space cooperation

Photo shows a full-size model of the core module of China’s space station Tianhe exhibited at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China’s Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liang Xu) Fifty years ago, astronaut and moonwalker Neil Armstrong described the outer space from another perspective: “It suddenly struck me that that …

China sends two BeiDou satellites

China sends two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space at 8:55 a.m from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Nov. 23, 2019. (Photo by Guo Wenbin/Xinhua)  China sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan …

China’s civil aviation industry posts robust growth in first 10 months

A Boeing 787 plane of China Southern Airlines lands at Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, Oct. 27, 2018. China’s civil aviation industry is accelerating its advance into the digital era, with major players sending clear signals of new opportunities worldwide. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)  China’s civil aviation sector reported steady expansion …

China to build space station accommodating 3 astronauts

  File Photo: Xinhua China is scheduled to build and operate a space station in 2022, which will accommodate three astronauts, and space would be reserved for enlargement. Zhou Jianping, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the chief designer of China’s manned space program, said at the Forth China Summit Forum on …