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China's Lunar Probe Completes Last Orbital Transfer Before Leaving Earth
Beijing (XNA) Nov 01, 2007China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 completed its fourth orbital transfer on Wednesday afternoon, a critical move to push it to fly to the moon "in a real sense." The engine on the probe was started at 5:15 p.m.. Thirteen minutes later, the probe was successfully shifted to the earth-moon transfer orbit with an apogee of about 380,000 km. The main engine of Chang'e-1 started operation and helped ... more China Starts Developing New Heavy-Duty Carrier Rockets 
Tianjin (XNA) Nov 01, 2007China is building a new range of carrier rockets designed to send heavyweight satellites into space, boosting the current carrying capacity by nearly three times, a space expert has said. The Long March 5 rockets will be able to carry payloads of up to 25 tons for low earth orbit satellites, up from the current limit of 9.2 tons, said Wu Yansheng, president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle ... more Tibetan refugees shot at by Chinese troops: activists 
Kathmandu (AFP) Oct 31, 2007Refugees trying to flee Chinese-controlled Tibet to Nepal have been shot at by soldiers, a year after a nun was shot and killed in the same area, an activist group said Wednesday. "No Tibetans in the group were killed or injured but several of them... were taken into Chinese custody," the International Campaign for Tibet said. In September 2006, foreign climbers on Nepal's border with Ti ... more Six Thousand People To Be Resettled To Make Way For New Space Launch Center 
Haikou, China (XNA) Oct 30, 2007More than 6,000 people will be relocated in China's southern island province of Hainan to make way for a new space launch center. Mayor Yan Zheng of Wenchang city, on Hainan's northeastern coast, said at a meeting on land acquisition on Monday that 1,200 hectares would be obtained for the center. The city's Party chief, Xie Mingzhong, promised they would properly handle issues concerning those t ... more China to build fourth space launch centre 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2007China announced Monday it would build its fourth space launch centre, just a week after it fired off its first lunar orbiter. The new launch centre, to be built on the southern island province of Hainan, is scheduled to be completed in 2012 and start operating in 2013, Xinhua news agency reported. The location of the launch centre in Hainan, a low-latitude region, could help increase the ... more |
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San Mateo CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2007Charles E. Johnson, Managing Director of Tano China Capital Management, has announced the signing of a three-way strategic alliance between its affiliates China Solar Power (Holdings) Ltd. (CSP), Tano China Private Equity Fund II (TCPEF II) and ULVAC Inc. of Japan. The parties signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement in Chigasaki, Japan on October 17, 2007. With the establishment of this strategic ... more China Eyes The Moon 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007What is most appealing about Oriental martial arts is the precise manner in which a set mission is accomplished, with an almost total lack of publicity. On October 4, with Russia and the U.S. apparently unable to do more than talk about flights to the Moon, China, strictly on schedule, launched a Long March 3A rocket carrying the satellite Chang-e 1 on a mission to map the Moon's surface. The sp ... more China Moon Mission Chang'e-1 In Good Condition 
Beijing (XNA) Oct 28, 2007All the systems of China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 are in good conditions with the high energy solar particle detector and the low energy ion detector functioning properly on Saturday, according to the moon probe team. The Chang'e-1, China's first moon orbiter, is currently moving on a 24-hour orbit with an apogee of 70,000 kilometers after it entered the orbit following its second orbital t ... more China Says US Missile Shield Threatens Global Stability 
Harbin, China (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007The placement of U.S. missile defenses in Europe will not ease global security concerns but will undermine the global strategic balance, the Chinese foreign minister said Wednesday. Washington insists that the deployment of a radar in the Czech Republic and a missile interceptor base in Poland will protect the U.S. and its NATO allies from potential missile attacks coming from Iran or North Kore ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Oct 25, 2007EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana voiced concern Thursday at Taiwan's plans to hold a referendum on applying for United Nations membership. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Wednesday launched an 11-day torch relay to promote the planned referendum on UN membership -- a move sure to spark outrage in China. The independence-minded Chen wants the vote to be held alongside presidential ... more Moderate Chinese slowdown shows growing dependence on world: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 25, 2007China's economy is more integrated with the world than ever before, and its slight slowdown in recent months is more likely due to a global cooling than Beijing's efforts, analysts said Thursday. The world's fourth-largest economy expanded by 11.5 percent in the third quarter, a more moderate pace than the 11.9 percent recorded for the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics announ ... more CTDC Announces Strategic Partnership With Terra Solar 
Hong Kong, China (SPX) Oct 26, 2007China Technology Development Group signed a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with Terra Solar Global to form a strategic partnership to develop and integrate applications of solar energy technology. The partnership is driven by the technological advantages of Terra Solar's leading status in the BIPV (building integrated photovoltaic) market place as well as the cost advantages of the product ... more Asia's space race heats up as China launches first lunar orbiter 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed in the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise. China's year-long expedition, costing 1.4 billion yuan (184 million dollars), kicks off a programme that aims to land an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and put a man on the moon by about 2020. The la ... more
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