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CNSA released true color hd pics of the moon. Data can be download from China’s Science and Application Center for Moon and Deep space Exploration
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China plans to launch nearly 40 Beidou navigation satellites in the next five years to support its global navigation and positioning network, a spokesperson said Wednesday. By the end of 2018, another 18 satellites will be put into orbit for Beidou's navigation service, said Ran Chengqi, spokesperson of the Beidou Navigation Satellite System and also director of the China Satellite Navigation Office.

Ran said the positioning accuracy of the Beidou Navigation Satellite System inside China has reached five meters, with the improvement of a software algorithm and other technology development...
 

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China released the first batch of images captured by the nation's most sophisticated observation satellite Gaofen-4 on Wednesday, including one showing the capital city Beijing amid heavy smog.

The images released by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense included Beijing, the volcanic and in Xinjiang Region, the Dunhuang Mountain in Gansu Province, the Yellow River Delta and the Mount Qomolangma. Other images feature Nam Co in Tibet Autonomous Region, the world's highest saltwater lake, the Yellow River delta and a forest fire in south Australia.

Each of the images, released by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), covers an area of at least 400 km, said Tong Xudong, chief designer of the Gaofen project with SASTIND.One image taken on Jan. 21 showed Beijing and neighboring areas were covered by heavy smog while another clear image of the same region was taken on Jan. 25, when the smog dispersed.

"It will play an important part in China's forestry, disaster reduction, earthquake and meteorology, especially in forest fire as it can take real-time photos to show the developing process of a forest fire,"
 

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Final tests completed on China's largest rocket
China recently concluded the final tests on its largest and most powerful rocket, the Long March 5, at the Wen-chang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan province, and will conduct the rocket's first flight in September, according to a senior project manager.

The tests started in late September last year totaled more than 130 days. They proved that the Long March 5, China's newest and most technologically advanced rocket, works well with the ground facilities at the Wenchang center, said Li Dong, a senior designer at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology and head of the Long March 5 project.

The Chang'e 5 lunar probe, which will land on the moon and take samples before returning to Earth, also took part in the tests. Li said the tests were the riskiest and most sophisticated that China has ever conducted on its rockets and involved about 300 engineers. The tests' outcome will be used to improve the first mass-production rocket, which will be launched in September, he added.

The academy will start assembling and checking the first such rocket in the near future, according to Li.Tao Gang, general manager of Tianjin Long March Launch Vehicle Manufacturing Co, which will produce the Long March 5, said all fuel tanks of the first mass-production rocket have been made and delivered to the Tianjin assembly plant.

As the nation's first-generation heavy-lift launch system, the Long March 5 is nearly 57 meters high, with a diameter of 5 m. Boasting a liftoff weight of around 800 metric tons. In addition to the Long March 5, China is also preparing for the debut of the smaller Long March 7 at the Wenchang center. The Long March 7 will replace the decades-old Long March 2 and Long March 3 families in commercial launch service. It also will be tasked with sending China's cargo spacecraft to the country's future space station.
 

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Can somebody translate this? (...especially the text under the Space Launch System...)

This is the projected launch timeline for OneSpace, a Chinese private space startup.

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