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Key Maneuvers Still Awaits Chang'e-1 Before Mission Success
Beijing, China (XNA) Nov 06, 2007China's first lunar probe, Chang'e-1, which entered the moon's orbit Monday morning, still has to undergo three key steps before it can really start its moon probe mission, a deputy chief commander of China's lunar obiter project said here Monday. The three steps include two brakings at perilune, three-dimensional positioning of the satellite, and the adjustment of the working model of the satel ... more China To Rule The World Economy 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007The China-Russia Friendship Year is finishing early this month with great pageantry. Economic contacts underlying the galas are asymmetrical-Russia has silently accepted the role of China's sales outlet and raw material supplier. The two countries' political and business leaders are gathering in Moscow, November 6, for a second bilateral economic forum to take stock of mutual interests. Chinese ... more Deal On Oil Pipeline Leg To China Won't Be Reached In Moscow 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007A deal to build a leg of a major Russian oil pipeline to China will not be signed during Prime Minister Wen Jibao's visit to Moscow on Tuesday, a Russian government source said on Monday. In Moscow, the final destination in Jibao's tour of former Soviet states which comprised Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Belarus, the Chinese premier with meet with his Russian counterpart, Viktor Zubkov. Ru ... more Chang'e 1 To Skip Correction, Flies To Moon Directly 
Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 05, 2007China's lunar probe Chang'e 1 will skip the scheduled orbital correction tomorrow as the orbiter is operating normally and is right on its planned trajectory to enter the moon orbit on Monday. The correction was the third scheduled one after Chang'e 1 skipped the first one planned on Thursday and finished its first orbital correction yesterday morning, Xinhua news agency reported. ... more ESA Transmits First-Ever Telecommands To Chinese Satellite 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 02, 2007For the first time, ESA tracking stations have transmitted telecommands to a Chinese satellite. This morning at 07:15 CET (06:15 UTC), China's mission control reported that commands transmitted from Maspalomas station had been successfully received by the Chang'e-1 Moon mission. ESA ground tracking support to China's Chang'e-1 successfully started on 1 November 2007 at 04:35 CET (03:35 UTC ... more |
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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 Outside View: China takes space race lead 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 29, 2007 What 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 Oct. 4, with Russia and the United States 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 ... more Taiwan's Chen promises not to develop nukes 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 29, 2007Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Monday pledged that his government would not develop nuclear weapons, but said the island needed to boost its defences to counter China's military might. "On behalf of my countrymen, I hereby want to promise to you that Taiwan will by no means develop, introduce nor use nuclear weapons," Chen said in a speech to members of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' ... more |
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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 Japan warns Chinese activists heading to disputed islands 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 28, 2007Japan's Coast Guard Sunday dispatched patrol ships and aircraft after spotting a boat carrying Chinese activists to a group of disputed islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan. "We have spotted a boat near the Japanese territorial sea on the western side of the islands," said a coast guard official based in the southern Japanese island chain of Okinawa. The Coast Guard sent patrol shi ... more Chinese media trumpet space launch 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 25, 2007China's rise as a space power poses no threat to the rest of the world, official media said Thursday, as it celebrated the successful start of the nation's efforts to send a man to the moon. "The country has long before made clear that its space programmes are for peaceful purposes," said an editorial in the English-language China Daily, a newspaper used by the government to express its view ... more
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