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#MadeInChina #中國製造 |#深蓝航天 #LANDSPACE #DeepBlueLimitedCompany #August2024| Deep Blue Aerospace #ReusableCarrierRocket #星云-1 #Nebula1 #ReusableCarrierRocket preparations for  flight testing  stage one vertical take-off and landing recovery test Reusable Carrier Rocket 100 Kilometer testing …

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深蓝航天  Deep Blue Limited – Deep Blue Aerospace  Landspace 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…..

[The first stage of the Deep Blue Aerospace Nebula-1 rocket is scheduled to conduct a high-altitude vertical recovery flight test in August and a 100-kilometer-level VTVL vertical recovery flight test at an appropriate time]

Recently, Deep Blue Aerospace successfully completed the B2 round of financing, fully accelerating the technological innovation of recyclable rockets and the commercialization of the recyclable and reusable rocket Nebula-1 (hereinafter referred to as “Nebula-1”). Wuxi High-tech Zone Investment and Control Group led this round of financing and became a cornerstone investor in multiple rounds, completing and locking in nearly 1 billion yuan in funds, injecting strong development momentum into the research and development and production of Deep Blue Aerospace, and jointly promoting the rapid development of China’s aerospace in the era of great aerospace

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This round of funds will be mainly used to strengthen technology research and development, expand production scale, optimize supply chain management, and accelerate market promotion. It is worth noting that the Deep Blue Aerospace Rocket Intelligent Manufacturing and Assembly Base of more than 20,000 square meters has landed in Wuxi High-tech Zone. With the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as the background, it will accelerate the expansion of the rocket industry cluster along the canal. The Deep Blue Aerospace Rocket Canal Factory will become a demonstration base for high-end manufacturing and commercial rocket industries in Wuxi High-tech Zone. The

Canal Factory will be mainly used for the mass production of Nebula-1 and Nebula-2 rockets. As a representative of China’s recyclable rockets, the Nebula-1 rocket will significantly reduce launch costs and increase launch frequency, and will be of milestone significance for promoting the sustainable development of China’s commercial aerospace industry. At present, preparations for the first launch of the Nebula-1 rocket are in full swing. The Nebula-2 rocket, which is scheduled to make its maiden flight at the end of 2025, will have a takeoff scale of 1,000 tons and will also be recyclable and reusable. On

July 21, the Nebula-1 rocket completed a series of tests of the first-stage three-machine parallel full-time power system at the Deep Blue Jigang Test Base in Jinan City, simulating the full working conditions of high-altitude recovery flight and a large range of engine variable thrust tests, and achieved complete success. In August, the rocket body will go to the test site to prepare for the upcoming high-altitude vertical recovery flight test of the first stage of the Nebula-1 rocket, and will choose an opportunity to conduct a 100-kilometer-level rocket vertical recovery flight test. Each test of the rocket will accumulate valuable test data for the first flight of the Nebula-1 orbital rocket, ensuring that the Nebula-1 reusable rocket “goes into space without any problems” and that the first flight of the Nebula-1 rocket into orbit and recovery will be completed smoothly by the end of the year. Deep Blue Aerospace will continue to increase its R&D investment in the field of reusable rocket technology, and is committed to exploring more efficient, economical and environmentally friendly space launch solutions to promote the innovative development of China’s commercial space industry. (Deep Blue Aerospace )

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On the day of  3rd July  2024   Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At  Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time Beijing time  Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew….. Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew will carry out the second extravehicular activity …. Successfully completed the second extravehicular activity…… At 22:51 Beijing time on July 3, 2024, after about 6.5 hours of extravehicular activities, the Shenzhou 18 crew astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu worked closely together, and with the support of the space station’s robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, installed space debris protection devices for the space station’s extravehicular pipelines, cables and key equipment, and completed the extravehicular inspection mission. Extravehicular astronauts Ye Guangfu and Li Cong have safely returned to the Wentian laboratory module, and the extravehicular activity was a complete success.



So far, the Takionaut Crew of the Shenzhou 18 astronaut crew has been completed by one-third, and a large number of scientific experiments and technical experiments will be carried out in orbit in the future…..

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#CNSA #ChinaNationalSpaceAdministration #国家航天局 |#BRI #June2024 | #嫦娥六号#Change6 South Pole-Aitken successfully Basin #LunarSampleReturnMission #DarksideOfTheMoon Chang’e 6 completes sampling and ascender takes off from the far side of the moon and enters the scheduled lunar orbit …

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At 17:27 on May 3rd Friday 2024  Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration, the Chang’e-6 probe was successfully launched by the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province,  China, People’s Republic of China., and accurately entered the Earth-moon transfer orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. The Chang’e-6 probe has embarked on the world’s first return journey for sampling from the far side of the moon. The pre-selected landing and sampling area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon.

[ Chang’e 6 completes sampling and ascender takes off from the far side of the moon and enters the scheduled lunar orbit]

According to the National Space Administration, at 7:38 today, the Chang’e 6 ascender carrying lunar samples took off from the far side of the moon. After the 3000N engine worked for about 6 minutes, it successfully sent the ascender into the scheduled lunar orbit.

From June 2 to 3, Chang’e 6 successfully completed intelligent and rapid sampling in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon, and packaged the precious lunar far side samples in the storage device carried by the ascender in a predetermined form. During the sampling and packaging process, researchers simulated the geographical model of the sampling area and simulated sampling in the ground laboratory based on the probe data transmitted back by the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, providing important support for sampling decisions and operations in various links.

Intelligent sampling is one of the core key links of the Chang’e 6 mission. The probe withstood the high temperature test on the far side of the moon, and collected lunar samples by drilling with a drill and taking samples from the surface with a robotic arm, realizing multi-point and diversified automatic sampling.

嫦娥六号 The lander and ascender took a group photo] On June 3, 2024, the “mobile camera” carried by Chang’e 6 moved autonomously and successfully took and sent back a group photo of the lander and ascender

The Chang’e-6 lander was equipped with a landing camera, panoramic camera, lunar soil structure detector, lunar mineral spectrometer and other payloads that were powered on normally and carried out scientific exploration as planned, playing an important role in scientific exploration tasks such as lunar surface morphology and mineral composition detection and research, lunar shallow structure detection, etc. Before the probe drilled and sampled, the lunar soil structure detector analyzed and judged the underground lunar soil structure in the sampling area, providing data reference for sampling. The international payloads

carried by the Chang’e-6 lander, such as the European Space Agency’s lunar surface negative ion analyzer and the French lunar radon gas detector, worked normally and carried out corresponding scientific exploration tasks. Among them, the French lunar radon gas detector was powered on during the Earth-Moon transfer, lunar orbit phase and lunar surface working phase; the European Space Agency’s lunar surface negative ion analyzer was powered on during the lunar surface working phase. The Italian laser corner reflector installed on the top of the lander became a position control point that can be used for distance measurement on the back side of the moon.

After the surface sampling was completed, the five-star red flag carried by the Chang’e-6 lander was successfully unfolded on the back side of the moon. This is the first time that China has independently and dynamically displayed its national flag on the back side of the moon. The national flag is made of new composite materials and special technology. Due to the different landing position on the moon, the Chang’e 6 national flag display system has been adaptively improved on the basis of the Chang’e 5 mission.

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At 1106 Hours Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time 20th  May 2024 , China- People’s Republic of China- CNSA –China National Space Administration   Successfully launched  Chang Zheng – Long March 2D Yao 98 Carrier Rocket ignited and took off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Shanxi Province..  Successfully launch the Beijing-3C satellite the constellation was launched and the four satellites successfully entered the scheduled orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. This mission is the 523rd flight of the Long March series of launch vehicles.​​​

According to the Shanghai Eighth Institute, this rocket is equipped with a one-stage landing area control system, that is, the grid rudder control system. In the re-entry and return section of the first sub-stage of the rocket, the flight guidance of the first sub-stage is carried out through precise control of the rudder movements. In many past flight tests, this system has achieved precise landing zone control, perfectly unlocked the new skill of “landing where you point” for the first sub-stage of the rocket, and ensured the safety of the landing zone environment time and time again. It is worth mentioning that this time the grid rudder adopts a swept-back rudder surface with the entire rudder curved backwards. The aerodynamic performance is significantly improved, which can further improve the control ability of the grid rudder; for the first time, a pneumatic pin puller is used to replace It replaces the traditional pyrotechnic pin puller, achieves low impact, and provides technical reserves for subsequent reusable rockets.

The Long March 2D carrier rocket that performed this mission is a room-temperature liquid two-stage carrier rocket developed by the Shanghai Aerospace Administration. It has a take-off thrust of about 300 tons and a corresponding capacity of 1.3 tons for a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous circular orbit. It has the capability to operate in Jiuquan, Taiyuan, The three major satellite launch centers in Xichang implement single- and multi-satellite launch capabilities with different orbital requirements.

“Long March 2D” is a medium-sized two-stage room-temperature liquid launch vehicle developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is mainly used for low-Earth orbit (LEO) and sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) launch missions. The arrow is about 41 meters long (equipped with a standard 3.35-meter-diameter fairing), with both primary and secondary diameters of 3.35 meters, a take-off mass of 250 tons, a take-off thrust of 302 tons, a low-Earth orbit (LEO) capacity of 4 tons, and a 700-kilometer circle. It has a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) capacity of 1.3 tons.



This launch is a four-satellite launch with one rocket. In order to maximize the use of the space inside the satellite fairing, the model adopts a “staggered parallel” layout of two high and two low according to the shape of the satellite. At the same time, the Chang Zheng – Long March 2D Yao 98 Carrier Rocket test team also cooperated with the satellite team to The launch site carries out a number of special reviews such as satellite safety clearance, dynamic displacement, satellite-rocket distance when the satellite sail is deployed, and satellite-rocket joint operation to ensure the complete success of the mission.

The four satellites of the “Beijing-3C” constellation were developed by the Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd. of the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. They are high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites. This type of satellite is developed based on a low-cost, high-performance satellite platform. It has a panchromatic resolution of 0.5 meters and a multispectral resolution of 2 meters. It has the smallest mass among the current practical (operational) 0.5-meter high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites.

The satellite is equipped with a high-performance GPU (graphics processing unit), which not only supports real-time processing of on-orbit remote sensing images, but also supports the operation of artificial intelligence algorithms such as deep learning. At the same time, the satellite supports autonomous mission planning on board, and can independently complete imaging mission planning, image acquisition, data compression, on-orbit processing, image downloading, etc. In addition, the satellite has specially designed a high-speed injection channel for APP in-orbit injection, which supports APP installation, operation, uninstallation, update and other operations on orbit.

The “Beijing-3C” constellation is a commercial remote sensing satellite constellation invested and launched by 21st Century Space Technology Application Co., Ltd. After the constellation is put into use, the four satellites will operate in an equal-phase network to meet the observation needs of daily revisits in any area around the world. The imaging information can be used in land and resources management, agricultural resource surveys, ecological environment monitoring, comprehensive urban applications and other fields.

This mission has a customized carrying design based on the shape of the satellite, using a “staggered-level parallel” layout of two highs and two lows. At the same time, this rocket is equipped with a sub-stage landing area control system (grid rudder control system). This time, the grid rudder adopts a swept-back rudder surface with the entire rudder curved backwards. The aerodynamic performance is significantly improved, which can further improve the control ability of the grid rudder. For the first time, a pneumatic pin puller is used to replace the traditional pyrotechnic puller. The pin device achieves low impact and provides technical reserves for subsequent reusable rockets.



This launch is the 90th launch of the Long March-2D carrier rocket, the 211th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles developed by Shanghai Aerospace Corporation, and the 523rd launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles. The satellite launched this time was developed by the Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd., which is affiliated to the Fifth Academy….

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On the day of  April 25th Thursday 2024   Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At 20:59 Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time  on April 25, 2024, Beijing time, the Long March 2F Yao18 carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft was ignited and launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. , About 10 minutes later, the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft successfully separated from the Carrier rocket and entered the predetermined orbit. Currently, the Takionaut crew is in good condition and the launch was a complete success.

Before then the Launch.. Takionauts Departure Ceremony was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center……  At 18:09 on April 25th, 2024, Beijing time, the Shenzhou 18 manned mission’s Takionaut crew departure ceremony was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Held at the Yuanmengyuan Square.  At 18:10, Xu Xueqiang, commander-in-chief of China’s Manned Space Engineering Project and commander-in-chief of the Space Station Application and Development Stage Mission Command, issued a “departure” order, and three astronauts, Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu, took the order. At present, the Takionaut crew of Shenzhou 17 has been stationed at the space station for nearly six months, and they are actively preparing to welcome the Takionaut crew of Shenzhou 18 which is coming soon….


After the spacecraft enters orbit, it will conduct autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking with the space station assembly in accordance with predetermined procedures. The astronaut crew of Shenzhou 18 will rotate in orbit with the astronaut crew of Shenzhou 17. While working and living on the space station, the crew of Shenzhou 18 will conduct multiple extravehicular activities and carry out practical experiments and applications in the fields of basic microgravity physics, space material science, space life science, aerospace medicine, and aerospace technology. , completing various tasks such as the installation of the space station’s debris protection and reinforcement device, the installation and recovery of extravehicular loads and extravehicular platform equipment.
This mission is the third manned mission in my country’s manned space program entering the space station application and development stage. It is the 32nd launch mission since the project was established and implemented, and it is also the 518th flight of the Long March series of launch vehicles.

After the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft entered orbit, it successfully docked at the radial port of the Tianhe core module of the space station at 3:32 Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time on April 26, 2024, Beijing time. The Takionaut crew of Shenzhou 17 has made all preparations to welcome the astronaut crew of Shenzhou 18. The two Shenzhou crew flying combinations with an average age of less than 40 years old are about to meet in the “Tiangong”!​​​

At 05:04 Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time on April 26th, 2024, Beijing time, the Shenzhou 17th astronaut crew successfully opened the “door” to welcome the Shenzhou18 from afar. The astronaut crew settled in the “Tiangong”. This is the fourth space reunion of Chinese astronauts! Subsequently, the two astronaut crews will perform on-orbit rotations on the space station. During this period, the six astronauts will work and live together on the space station for about five days to complete various scheduled tasks…..

The #Shenzhou18 is launching tonight for science experiments. From agricultural projects on earth to satellites in space, you can find the academic prowess and innovative scientific research achievements of #CUHK. Let’s explore how CUHK’s research accomplishments connect the realms of earth and space.

🌱 CUHK has launched Hong Kong’s first agricultural project in space. Longhuang soybeans together with the rhizobia specimens developed by CUHK research team, were sent into space by the Shenzhou-16 and Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft respectively, further advancing soybean breeding technology

🛰️ With the support of the Hong Kong government, The Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) at CUHK, aims to independently develops and launches CUHK’s first satellite

👨‍🚀 ISEIS owns the only ground receiving station for remote sensing of satellite data in Hong Kong. It serves as the only local base for the National Remote Sensing Center of China

On the 28 April 2024 it was Handover from the the Shenzhou 17 to the Shenzhou 18 crew… ! 中国 Takionauts Completed On-orbit Handover 神州七号…… The Takionaut Shenzhou 17 crew will return to Earth on April 30] On April 28, 2024, Beijing time, the astronaut crews of Shenzhou 17 and Shenzhou 18 A handover ceremony was held in orbit, and the two crews handed over the keys to the Chinese space station.
So far, the Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew has completed all scheduled tasks and will return to the Dongfeng Landing Site on the Shenzhou 17 manned spacecraft on April 30. The landing site and various participating systems are making preparations to welcome the astronauts home…

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On the afternoon of the 26th April 2024 , the Dongfeng Landing Field organized and completed the last full-system comprehensive drill of the Shenzhou 17 search, rescue and recovery mission in accordance with the full system, full status, and full process!
Landing field ready! Welcome the 17th Takionauts back home!

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