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#CNSA #ChinaNationalSpaceAdministration #国家航天局 |#BRI #July2023 | #天宫#Tiangong #ChinaSpaceStation #CMS #ChinaMannedSpace #神舟十六号 #Shenzhou16 Super space summer resort with freeform fun videography fly through the China Space Station..

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On the 30th  May 2023 clear 0931 Hours Morning Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time , the Belt and Road Initiative CNSA –China National Space Administration  from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center – Inner Mongolia –China – People’s Republic of China deployment of  the Chang Zheng –   The Chang Zheng – Long March 2F Yao 16 –Shenzhou 16  carrier rocket.. On which Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao took to the predetermined orbit. The first manned flight mission in the application and development stage was a complete success. The three astronauts will stay in the space station and “join up” with the crew of Shenzhou 15 to carry out on-orbit handover “face-to-face” meeting in which brings the total crew of six with a handover ceremony  from Shenzhou 15 towards 16..

Currently it’s hot Warm and humid summery time in China, People’s Republic of China July 2023.. In which to celebrate the coolness of summer is cool room temperature for the CNSA Tiangong –China Space Station Takionaut Shenzhou 16 Crew In the hot summer, welcome to the “space summer resort” that is like spring all the year round – China Space Station, come and experience the joy of passing through the cabin from the first perspective with us….

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CNSA #ChinaNationalSpaceAdministration #國家航天局 |#BRI  #July2023 | #火星 # 天問 #天问一号#TianwenOne #MarsMission #Tianwen1 probe  #祝融号 #ZhuRong stunning Martian landscape new stunning photography during the April year 2022  before Hibernation  #AGallery

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 天问一号飞運騎遊達达3亿CNSA – China National Space Administration – ESA – European Space agency Belt and road initiative mars mission…first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen- Martian Probe One As of September 15, 2022, the Tianwen-1 orbiter has been in orbit for more than 780 days, and the rover has travelled a total of 1,921 meters, completed the established scientific exploration tasks, and obtained 1,480 GB of original scientific exploration data. The scientific research team has obtained rich scientific results through the research on the first-hand scientific data obtained independently by my country. Through a comprehensive study of typical landforms such as concave cones, barrier craters, and trenches distributed in the landing area, the important connection between the formation of the above-mentioned landforms and water activities has been revealed.

朱融号 The photos taken by the Mars rover before hibernation for one month (April 2022), maybe this is the posthumous work

Currently as to date of the Zhurong Mars Rover is currently at sleep safe mode due to the Martian Sandstorms….. the location of Zhurong taken by the Tianwen-1 orbiter after it hibernated in Zhurong last year. The rut marks left by Zhurong after traveling 1921 meters are clearly visible….. The local dust on Mars captured by the Tianwen-1 orbiter is very layered. This photo was taken by the medium-resolution camera of the Tianwen-1 orbiter on January 6, 2022, and Zhurong went into a dormant state more than three months after this time point. 

The Tianwen-1 mission was approved by the Party Central Committee in January 2016, and was successfully launched on July 23, 2020. After a deep space flight of 475 million kilometers for 202 days, the probe will rendezvous with Mars on February 10, 2021, and successfully implemented the capture and braking to enter the orbit around Mars. After 3 months of detailed inspection of the pre-selected landing area, the Mars landing was successfully carried out on May 15, 2021. On May 22, the “Zhurong” rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars and began to patrol and explore.

On August 15, 2021, the “Zhurong” rover successfully completed the 90 Martian scientific exploration missions, and continued to carry out extended exploration missions. It has traveled 1,921.5 meters on the surface of Mars. Affected by the severe winter cold and dusty weather in the landing area, the rover will enter the winter dormancy mode on May 18, 2022 as designed. Around December 2022, the “Zhurong” landing area will enter the early spring season. will resume normal work.

The orbiter has circled Mars 1,344 times, achieving global coverage and is currently in normal condition. In the follow-up, it will continue to carry out global remote sensing detection, and choose an opportunity to carry out expansion technology experiments to carry out preliminary technical verification for related tasks.

After nearly two years of flight and exploration for the Tianwen-1 mission, the 13 scientific payloads deployed by the rover and orbiter have obtained a total of about 1040GB of raw scientific data. After receiving and processing on the ground, the standard scientific data products formed are submitted to the rover on a monthly basis. A team of scientists has conducted analysis and interpretation, and relevant scientific results have been published in well-known academic journals at home and abroad. These scientific data will be open to scientists around the world at an appropriate time. Scientists around the world are welcome to actively apply for research and jointly promote the cause of human exploration of the universe.

At present, the Tianwen-1 orbiter continues to carry out scientific exploration in the orbit of the remote sensing mission, continues to accumulate first-hand scientific data, and makes China’s contribution to mankind’s in-depth understanding of Mars.
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#CNSA #ChinaNationalSpaceAdministration #国家航天局 |#BRI #July2023 |#CASC  #中國航天#GroundStation China Aerospace’s first “ground space station” has been built, which can simulate the environment of the moon and Mars…. #中國航天科技集團公司

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During the Month of June 2023, CASC 中國航天 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Aerospace’s first “ground space station” has been built, which can simulate the environment of the moon and Mars! Looking at the northeast corner of the motherland, a space environment ground simulation device called “ground space station” was officially completed not long ago, and it has entered the trial operation stage. Many indicators have reached the world’s leading level.

As the first large-scale scientific device in my country’s aerospace field, the “Ground Space Station” is the first comprehensive research device in the world that has the most comprehensive environmental factors and can realize the study of multi-scale and cross-scale environmental effects. Contribute wisdom and strength.

The “Ground Space Station” is located in the Science and Technology Innovation City of Harbin New District, Heilongjiang Province, China, People’s Republic of China and is jointly constructed by Harbin Institute of Technology and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. In the construction park, there are four experimental buildings of “one large and three small”, the “one large” refers to the space comprehensive environmental experiment building, and the “three small” refers to the space plasma science experiment building, the space magnetic environment science experiment building and the animal training room .

According to the design plan, the “ground space station” can simulate nine types of space environmental factors, including vacuum, high and low temperature, charged particles, electromagnetic radiation, space dust, plasma, weak magnetic field, neutral gas, and microgravity, and can explain the impact of the space environment on materials. , Devices, systems and living organisms, the influence rules and mechanism of action.

Compared with moving experimental instruments and equipment into space, the “ground space station” can not only save costs and reduce potential safety hazards, but also set specific environmental factors according to scientific problems and engineering needs, and conduct repeated verifications without time and space constraints, thus Create safer and more convenient experimental conditions and scientific research methods.

“In the future, many experiments that need to be carried out in space can be completed on the ground.” Yan Jihong, deputy dean of the Institute of Space Environment and Physical Science of Harbin Institute of Technology, said that this is the dream of scientists.

Figure 1: Effect drawing of space environment ground simulation device

Figure 2: Lunar dust cabin of space environment ground simulation device

Figure 3: The space plasma environment simulation and research system of the space environment ground simulator

Figure 4: The Martian Dust Chamber of the Space Environment Ground Simulator

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#MadeInChina #中國製造| #ChinaAcademyOfScience #五百米口径球面射电望远镜 #FAST #June2023 | Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical #RadioTelescope #RadioAstronomy # Tianyan #天眼 | detect key evidence of the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves…..

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The CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, nicknamed Tianyan, is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwest China. FAST has a 500 m diameter dish constructed in a natural depression in the landscape Observatory in Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, China, People’s Republic of China …

The construction of the 500-meter-aperture spherical radio telescope started on March 25, 2011 ; the completion and launching ceremony was held on September 25, 2016, and the technological infrastructure entered trial operation and trial commissioning; on January 11, 2020 It has passed the national inspection and acceptance work in China and is officially open for operation .

The 500-meter-aperture spherical radio telescope has created a new model for building giant telescopes. It has built a radio telescope with a reflective surface equivalent to 30 football fields. The sensitivity is more than 2.5 times that of the world’s second largest telescope, which greatly expands human vision and is used for exploration the origin and evolution of the universe 

中国天眼有新发展 – 中国天眼查询nanohertz gravitational wave breakthrough ] Searching for nahertz gravitational waves is one of the focal issues in the international physics and astronomy fields. A Chinese research team recently used the “China Sky Eye” FAST to detect key evidence of the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves, which is an important breakthrough in the search for nanohertz gravitational waves. This discovery marks that my country’s nanohertz gravitational wave detection and research have simultaneously reached the world’s leading level, which is of great significance for understanding supermassive black holes, the history of galaxy mergers, and the formation of large-scale structures in the universe.

中国天眼Discovery of key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational wave “China Sky Eye” (FAST) ushered in a major breakthrough again. Using FAST observation data, the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) research team found key evidence of the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves, indicating that my country’s research on nanohertz gravitational waves has reached the leading level in synchronization with the world. Relevant research results were published online in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research on June 29.

The nanohertz gravitational wave is a kind of gravitational wave with very low frequency, and the gravitational wave is caused by the disturbance of the surrounding space-time caused by the accelerating mass object. The detection of gravitational waves with a frequency as low as nanohertz will help astronomers understand the origin of the structure of the universe. It will also help physicists to detect the growth, evolution and merger process of the most massive celestial body in the universe, that is, the supermassive black hole. Gain insights into the fundamental physics of spacetime.



At present, the research on nanohertz gravitational waves has become one of the focuses of international competitions in the fields of physics and astronomy. Theory predicts that nanohertz gravitational waves are mainly produced by the merger of supermassive black holes. The North American Nahertz Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the European Pulsar Timing Array and the Australian Parkes Pulsar Timing Array have each carried out 20-year-long Nahertz gravitational-wave searches.

However, since the frequency of nanohertz gravitational waves is extremely low, the period lasts for several years, and its wavelength can reach several light-years, its detection is extremely challenging. The long-term timing observation of a group of millisecond pulsars with extremely regular rotation using a large radio telescope is the only known detection method for nanohertz gravitational waves.

In this study, the CPTA team used FAST to conduct long-term systematic monitoring of 57 millisecond pulsars, and formed these millisecond pulsars into a galaxy-scale gravitational wave detector to search for nanohertz gravitational waves. Based on independently developed software, the team conducted an in-depth analysis of the data collected by FAST with a time span of 3 years and 5 months, and found a nanohertz at a confidence level of 4.6 sigma (false positive rate is less than 1 in 500,000). Key evidence for a quadrupole-related signal characteristic of gravitational waves.

However, due to the short observation time, the researchers are still unable to determine the main physical source of the nanohertz gravitational waves.

It is worth mentioning that the European Pulsar Timing Array-India Pulsar Timing Array, the North American Nahertz Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the Australian Parkes Pulsar Timing Array and other pulsar timing array cooperation groups also announced similar the result of. “The four international teams independently obtained the key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves, which allowed the research results to be mutually verified and further improved the accuracy of this result,” Li Kejia said.

He Zishan, chair professor of Peking University and academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, believes that this major scientific breakthrough has a profound impact on the evolution of galaxies and the study of supermassive black holes, and also opens a new window for gravitational wave astrophysics…

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On the 30th  May 2023 clear 0931 Hours Morning Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time , the Belt and Road Initiative CNSA –China National Space Administration  from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center – Inner Mongolia –China – People’s Republic of China deployment of  the Chang Zheng –   The Chang Zheng – Long March 2F Yao 16 –Shenzhou 16  carrier rocket.. On which Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao took to the predetermined orbit. The first manned flight mission in the application and development stage was a complete success. The three astronauts will stay in the space station and “join up” with the crew of Shenzhou 15 to carry out on-orbit handover “face-to-face” meeting in which brings the total crew of six with a handover ceremony  from Shenzhou 15 towards 16..

On the week of 28th May 2023 .. Super blockbuster spectaculars earth views!  From the Shenzhou Sixteen Takionauts shooting awesome stunning the earth view mobile videography…..  The white bulkhead of the Tiangong -China space station, the bright sun wings and the clear blue earth make people fascinated. Although the Takionauts live in one side of the space station, through the portholes, they can see the brilliance of the stars, the sun and the moon sprinkled on the space station, reflecting the bright streamer. This beautiful scene is shared with us through the lens of Takionauts…..

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