The Orion Astropreneur Space Academy in Hong Kong is an independent, non-political, and not-for-profit action-oriented leadership development academy for global young leaders with stellar and outer space aspirations. The Academy is a member of the global leadership development initiatives with other space onboarding and offboarding institutions such as the Laboratory for Space Research at the University of Hong Kong, and other forward-looking and space-related institutions.
OASA HK – Hong Kong is located in the Central of Tsim Sha Tsui, First Floor, Everglory Centre, 1B Kimberley Street, (Next to Observatory Road) Hong Kong SAR-China, People’s Republic of China.
Taikonaut Zhao gave us an overview of Hong Kong’s and GBA’s possible role in complementing China’s Space programme over the next few years. He built on the theme of “why not?” and suggested this is the perfect time to jump in. NewSpace is becoming a new industry for mankind. NewSpace is broad and all-encompassing, and that’s why we all need to think bigger and wider. NewSpace requires new tech, new talent, new policies, and new insights. The satellite applications market is the largest and this segment requires more capacity building. NewSpace should be more inclusive and for a more diversified humanity. We shouldn’t leave anyone behind. Hong Kong’s locational role is unique, and can help China become more international, more connected, and more innovative with proper and timely funding. Conversely, the NewSpace will also help power Hong Kong’s economy and make it much more diversified. There are five steps for Hong Kong to consider. Breakthrough the old stereotypes and barriers. Bring in talent. Enhance the rule of international space law. Attract more capital. Promote and connect startups in China to IPO. Hong Kong needs lots more talent. Need to develop many more and create a stronger pool of talent.
Speaker: Mr ZHAO Chuandong, China’s first batch of Taikonaut
About the speaker: Zhao Chuandong is a renowned figure in the field of space exploration. He served as a fighter pilot in the PLA Air Force for 16 years. In 1998, he became one of the first group of astronauts in China’s Shenzhou program and took part in the training for manned space missions from Shenzhou 5 to Shenzhou 10. Zhao pursued his higher education at Tsinghua University, specialising in Aerospace Engineering, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering.
Following his retirement from active duty in 2014, Zhao devoted himself to astronaut training, scientific research management, and public education initiatives focused on manned space exploration.
LSR special colloquium
Date: 19th Oct 2023 Time: 3:30-4:30pm Location: LSR, Cyberport 4
Profile of Mr. Zhao Chuandong Mr. Zhao Chuandong (趙傳東) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A fighter pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected to be an astronaut in 1998. He retired from the Astronaut Corps in 2014.
Content of the talk: 1. How to leverage the advantage of HK unique position under “One country, two systems” for aerospace? 2. How should Hong Kong SAR nurture aerospace talent by leveraging China’s support or even contribute to China? 3. LSR is continuously striving in various space research areas. Can it collaborate and develop together with China?
Schedule: 3:30pm Welcome, intro to LSR and speaker by Prof. Parker 3:40pm Talk delivered by Mr. Zhao 4:10pm Discussion between LSR people and Mr Zhao, aka Q&A 4:30pm Causal chat, with wine and cheese 5:30pm End
On the 5th November 2023 Cathay Pacific – Cathay Partaking in the CIIE China International Export Expo in Shanghai Located in National Convention and Exhibition Center- Shanghai- China, People’s Republic of China in which showing casing in between 5th to 10th November 2023 …
As the “new face” of 2023CIIE , Cathay Airlines- Cathay Pacific appeared in the service trade exhibition area of Hall 8.2, focusing on “Working together, “Leap to the Future” theme, comprehensively displaying its four major business segments of “premium tourism, low-cost passenger transportation, freight and lifestyle”, as well as its development highlights and innovative measures in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and green and low-carbon fields, further demonstrating its in-depth development Confidence and determination in the mainland market. Online Exhibition Portal 👉 Online travel to the CIIE, immersive check-in at the Cathay Pacific booth! Come take a look!
The first China Air Transport Association was successfully held on November 3! As one of the exhibitors, Cathay Airlines – Cathay Pacific made an active appearance at this high-profile conference, providing strong support for the high-quality development of civil aviation in the new era and helping to promote society’s extensive understanding and recognition of the civil aviation industry.
At our booth, we presented Cathay Pacific’s global aviation network, exclusive and comfortable in-flight experience, unremitting pursuit of sustainable development, the huge potential of intermodal services in the Greater Bay Area, as well as operational highlights in cargo and other aspects. , conveying our corporate spirit of being committed to thoughtful service, being proactive, and creating innovative, convenient, and comfortable experiences for customers.
The first China Air Transport Association is a rare opportunity to gather industry elites to discuss the future of aviation. We eagerly look forward to more cooperation possibilities in the future, working with industry colleagues to shape the future of the aviation industry and provide passengers with a better flying experience!
Walk with Cathay Airlines- Cathay Pacific will take you to the exhibition online!
At the first China Air Transport Association, which opened today, we built a booth full of uniqueness and creativity, bringing you a brand new exhibition experience. The high energy on site will take you directly to the 👀:
✅ Light up travel destinations and gain exclusive
travel Exploration… Report
✅ Take photos and check in, generate AI images, and take photos with Cathay Pacific’s “landmarks” ✅ Enjoy the exclusive in-flight experience and immersively enjoy the luxurious business class seats
✅ Explore the real-life VIP room and experience the comfortable atmosphere of travel ✅ Check in to experience “turning waste into treasure” and refueling aircraft with sustainable aviation fuel..
In addition, we also showcased Cathay Pacific’s service highlights in different fields, such as the Multimodal Transport service in the Greater Bay Area. Web links , Cathay Pacific freight services, etc.
The first China Air Transport Association provides us with a platform for communication and mutual learning. We will firmly seize this opportunity and join hands with all parties to create better services for passengers and jointly contribute to the high-quality development of civil aviation in the new era!
What will it be like to unlock the highlights of travel services in one stop at the booth, explore the world and get exclusive reports, and generate AI photos as souvenirs?
On November 5, the 6th China International Import Expo officially kicked off. Cathay Pacific Airways , which made its debut at the CIIE , set up a unique and creative booth to provide a wonderful experience for people from all walks of life who came to visit. There are many highlights and more than a little surprise. Let’s take a look at the picture “Palm Palm Eye”~
2023CIIE Humanities exchange activities, the number of participating countries, provinces and booths has reached a new high. While promoting international cooperation and exchanges, it also provides more market opportunities for all parties. In order to firmly grasp the country’s “14th Five-Year Plan”, give Hong Kong, China new historical opportunities for development, and better integrate into the overall development of the country, we will continue to give full play to the unique advantages of “rooted in Hong Kong, backed by the motherland, and connected to the world”, and closely Connect the mainland with Hong Kong, China and other parts of the world, and consolidate and strengthen Hong Kong, China’s position as an international aviation hub…
The 6th China International Import Expo is in full swing! The editor invites you to come to the Cloud Exhibition~ 📍 Explore the world and light up every unforgettable journey 📍 Customize AI photos to freeze the beautiful moments with Cathay Pacific 📍 Enjoy the immersive business class experience on the ground 📍 Check in to the VIP room and take a photo It’s a blockbuster
📍 Use your little hands to add sustainable aviation fuel to the plane…
A “four-leaf clover”, an exhibition “benefitting the world”, 2023CIIE ushered in the last day. In the past week, Cathay’s carefully built booth was full of highlights, attracting an endless stream of visitors. Come explore and experience, the place is buzzing with activity. Friends who haven’t checked in yet still have a chance~
It is worth mentioning that Mr. Li Jiachao, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, also visited our booth. Under the explanation of the staff, he further understood and experienced Cathay Pacific’s service concept and experience with the audience present. feature.
CIIE is open for a while, and a new chapter is about to begin! This conference has provided us with new opportunities, and everyone’s enthusiastic participation and recognition is the greatest affirmation of our unremitting efforts. While we are very encouraged, we are also looking forward to future development and working with you to create more excitement!
中秋節On Today it is 29th September 2023 a very longest wintery season since last year- summer is cancelled- spring is only a guest…beginning 29th September 2023 mild cool spring as a guest in with crispy September weather week in which saying happy mid-autumn festival Lantern Festival everyone in which happens to fall on celebrating with mooncakes … that’s celebrate with family in the Asian Chinese communities… in least than a week time on in which the full moon on the 29th – September -6th October 2023 in which the celebration festival dates back to the Shang dynasty three thousand years ago before the Zhou Dynasty … storytelling narratives of of the great general lovely devotion for his wife Chang’e of offerings of mooncakes also The traditional lanterns are designed with the lucky color red, among Other popular Moon Festival legends include the Jade Rabbit jade maiden …
In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and togetherness. A full moon symbolizes prosperity and reunion for the whole family. Round mooncakes complement the harvest moon in the night sky at the Mid-Autumn Festival..
It is said that if you look up at the moon, you can see an outline of the Jade Rabbit pounding with a pestle. More than just cute, fluffy, and white, the Jade Rabbit is a sign of selflessness, piety, and sacrifice..
中秋節The Mid-Autumn Festival is the festival of Mid-Autumn. It falls in the second month of autumn and is marked by the fifteenth full moon. This day is in the midst of the three autumns, so it is called the “Mid-Autumn Festival”. The moonlight is brighter than usual this night, which is also called “moon eve”. Because the Mid-Autumn Festival falls in autumn and August, it is also known as the “Autumn Festival” and “August Festival”; because of worshiping and worshiping the moon, it is also called the “Moon Festival” and “Moon Festival”; during the Mid-Autumn Festival, families reunite and married daughters go home. Reunion, so it is also called “Reunion Festival” and “Girls’ Day”; in mid-autumn, various fruits are ripe and on the market, so it is called “Fruit Festival”. The Dong people call it “Pumpkin Festival”, and the Mulao people call it “Housheng Festival”. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people gather to admire the moon, offer sacrifices, and celebrate the harvest.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the “Correct Month”. Records about the “Reunion Festival” were first seen in literary works of the Ming Dynasty. “West Lake Tour Zhiyu” says: “August 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people send moon cakes to each other to symbolize reunion.” “A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital” also says: “When worshiping the moon on August 15th, the cakes must be round , the teeth will be wrong when dividing melons, and the petals will be carved like lotus flowers. … If a woman returns to peace, she will return to her husband’s house on this day, which is called the Reunion Festival.”
Initially, the “Moon Festival” was held on the “autumn equinox” day of the 24th solar term in the Ganzhi calendar, but later it was moved to the 15th day of the eighth month of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar). According to the Chinese calendar, the eighth month of the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn and is the second month of autumn, so it is called “Zhongqiu”. The fifteenth day of August is in the middle of “Zhongqiu”, so it is called “Mid-Autumn Festival
Chasing the moon
The so-called “chasing the moon” means that after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the excitement is still not over, so on the next night, many people invite relatives and friends to continue admiring the moon, which is called “chasing the moon.” According to the preface to “Lingnan Miscellaneous Notes” by Chen Zihou of the Qing Dynasty: “On the 16th night of August, good people in Guangdong gather relatives and friends to feast and enjoy the moon. This is called chasing the moon.”
Guessing riddles
On the night of the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, many lanterns are hung in public places. People gather together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns. Because it is a favorite activity of most young men and women, and love stories are also spread in these activities, so guessing lantern riddles during the Mid-Autumn Festival A form of love between men and women has also been derived.
Eat mooncakes
Moon cakes, also called moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc., were tributes to the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times. Mooncakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded admiring the moon and tasting mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion. Moon cakes symbolize reunion, and people regard them as festive food, using them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends. Today, eating moon cakes has become a must-have custom for the Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of northern and southern China. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people eat moon cakes to show “reunion.”
中秋節 Mid-Autumn Festival – The moon fills the heavenly palace, sending my longing for you from afar. China Manned Spaceflight wishes everyone a family reunion and a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
The full moon rises in the sky, let’s fly together in the dream . It is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Deep Blue Aerospace wishes you and your family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
深蓝航天 Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace One of sixty Chinese private space Carrier Rocket Companies in China-People’s Republic of China… As many of sixty plus Private Rocket Deep Blue Aerospace Co., Ltd. was established in 2017. The company is mainly a high-tech aerospace enterprise that focuses on the direction of liquid recovery and reusable launch vehicles and provides users with commercial launch services. Deep Blue Aerospace Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. At the same time, the company has rocket general and liquid engine R&D centers in Yizhuang, Beijing and Xi’an, Shaanxi, respectively, and a rocket power system test base in Tongchuan, Shaanxi…..
May all good things come to fruition like the Mid-Autumn Moon! Star Glory wishes everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
In which iSpace- Interstellar Glory in which it is the first Chinese Private Space Company to do so successfully commercially first out from sixty known private space companies in China People’s Republic of China… Founded in Beijing 2016 located in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone or known for short as E-Town in Capital of China – People’s Republic of China …
Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Interstellar Glory”) was established in October 2016, with Peng Xiaobo as the legal representative. The company is committed to developing excellent commercial launch vehicles and providing systematic launch solutions, providing global commercial aerospace customers with more efficient, higher-quality, and more cost-effective launch services, so as to greatly improve the ability of human beings to freely enter and exit space.
The company focuses on the research and development of intelligent launch vehicles, and provides integrated commercial launch services for global satellite and constellation customers.
Galaxy Power Aerospace wishes you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day!
星河动力空间科技有限公司 Galactic Energy- Galaxy Power (Beijing) Space Technology Co., Ltd. Located in Block D, Aviation Technology Plaza, E-Town, and Beijing – Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China ….Galaxy Aerospace is the first private aerospace company in China to achieve successful continuous launches, the first to send commercial networked satellites into a 500km sun-synchronous orbit, and the first to master the ability to launch multiple satellites with one carrier rocket.
國泰航空公司Cathay PacificThis year on the year 2023中秋節 Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the Friday 29th September 2023 in which also it known as the Moon Festival which is adjacent to China’s National Day on October 1st. An 8-day public holiday in which is a Public National Holiday of eight days enjoyed from September 29th to October 6th….. The Chinese –Asian community festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture. Similar holidays are celebrated in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other countries in East and Southeast Asia
Mooncakes Symbolize Family Reunion
In Chinese culture, roundness symbolizes completeness and togetherness. A full moon symbolizes prosperity and reunion for the whole family. Round mooncakes complement the harvest moon in the night sky at the Mid-Autumn Festival
A mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅) is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). The festival is primarily about the harvest while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy.
Is it good luck to eat mooncakes?
The mooncakes are the sweet and round delicacies associated with the feast: thought to bring good luck and prosperity, they are usually given as a present to their loved ones and served with tea
Put all the good things and blessings in the square gift box, and let the warmth of reunion be condensed in the small mooncake~ As the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Cathay has specially prepared a mixed mini mooncake gift box for everyone. I hope this Holiday blessings can accompany the moonlight, travel across thousands of mountains and rivers, and reach you.
The carefully crafted limited edition mooncake gift box brings you a double enjoyment of sight and taste! The design is inspired by aircraft portholes, with unique ingenuity and simplicity. There are three classic Hong Kong-style mooncakes with egg yolk and white lotus paste, red bean paste, and custard. Each one uses a low-oil and low-fat formula, taking into accounts both deliciousness and health. Whether you are rushing to a reunion and enjoying the happiness of family gathering together; Or set sail for the stars and explore the unknown world together. As always, Cathay Pacific will accompany you every step of the way also the design are from Cathay international iconic elements!
中国空间站 On the 7th June 2023CNSA –China National Space Administrationat the Grounds of the Hong Kong SAR, China, People’s Republic of China, at Hong Kong SAR Government house in Central the 李家超 John Lee Ka-chiu-Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region China, People’s Republic of China. Held a hosting meeting with the Hong Kong SAR Civilian Takionaut selection of the Role of Payload Specialist candidates.. His meeting is described as Meeting with payload expert- Specialists candidates…… as李家超 John Lee Ka-chiu-Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Quote below..
[Hong Kong SAR candidates have entered the selection stage of the national manned space engineering payload expert- Specialist]
Sun Dong, director of the Hong Kong Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau, said on September 20th 2023 that more than one Hong Kong SAR candidate has entered the national manned space engineering payload expert selection stage. The country, China, People’s Republic of China. will send personnel to Hong Kong in early October to learn more about the candidates. Expect good news to be announced within this year.
After the SAR government selects candidates and recommends them to the country, more than one candidate from Hong Kong enters the final selection stage after primary and secondary elections. The candidates include both men and women. “I think we have achieved good results.
IT House reported on September 20 that my country launched the fourth batch of preliminary Takionaut selection last year, selecting payload experts in Hong Kong and Macau for the first time .
According to Hong Kong News Network, Hong Kong Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong said today (20th) that there are currently more than one candidate from Hong Kong who went to Beijing to participate in the “re-selection” of load experts for the national manned space project earlier . Entering the third stage of “selection”, there are men and women .
Sun Dong revealed that the country will send personnel to Hong Kong in October to learn more about the candidates, and he looks forward to good news this year.
IT Home inquired and learned that a total of 12 to 14 reserve Takionaut were selected this time, including 7 to 8 space pilots, 5 to 6 aerospace flight engineers and payload experts, including about 2 payload experts.
Aerospace pilots are selected from active pilots in the army, navy and air force, aerospace flight engineers are selected from scientific research and engineering technicians engaged in aerospace engineering and related fields, and payload experts are selected from scientific researchers engaged in space scientific research and application-related fields.
In May this year, my country’s space station welcomed the first payload expert into space—Gui Haichao. Gui Haichao is a professor at Beihang University . He is mainly responsible for the on-orbit operation of space science experimental payloads. He has professional training in science, aerospace engineering and other fields and has rich operational experience. He was selected as the Shenzhou 16 flight crew.
