China has successfully sent 13 satellites viz. 3 Chinese and 10 customer’s satellites, into orbit through the Long March 6 rocket’s 351 flight which was lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, China. From the total satellites, 10 were remote sensing satellites of Argentine imagery company Satellogic.
- Satellogic signed a contract with China Great Wall Industry Corporation, an arm of China’s main space contractor, in January 2019 for deployment of 90 satellites.For the first time, China is launching large number of satellites for a foreign client.
About Chinese Satellites:
UESTC (also known as Tianyan-05): It is a remote sensing satellite jointly developed by new Chinese commercial satellite companies ADAspace and MinoSpace. Its imagery will be used mainly for smart cities, agriculture, forestry and disaster monitoring. It will also test communication payloads operating in the terahertz range, a potential successor to 5G communications.
Beihang SAT-1: It was developed by Spacety, a commercial satellite maker based in Changsha, central China, in collaboration with Beihang University, an aerospace university in Beijing. The satellite will carry out in-orbit experiments including receiving and retransmitting ADS-B signals from aircraft, and exploring laser data transmission technologies.
Bayi-03: It is developed by students from the Jinshan Middle School in Taiyuan. It carries an ultraviolet telescope developed by Origin Space, a Chinese asteroid mining company, the satellite will be used to target celestial bodies, as well as an imager for carrying out Earth observation and education-related activities.
Argentina Satellites
The 10 satellites of Argentina with 90-lb. (41 kilograms) each, carries multispectral and hyperspectral imaging payloads. They have been designed to operate in orbit for at least three years.
Recent Related News:
i.April 9, 2020, For the year 2019, China has become the world leader in international patent filings by World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) with a total of 58,990 applications surpassing the United States (US), which was at top spot since the PCT began operations in 1978.
ii.On October 19, 2020 secretary-general at OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Jose Angel Gurria Trevino unveiled the 44th edition of “International Migration Outlook 2020” in which India emerged as the second largest source country both in terms of the “total” inflow of new migrants to OECD countries during 2018 and also as regards the number of Indians acquiring citizenship of these countries. China grabbed the top spot.
About China:
Capital– Beijing
Currency– Renminbi
President– Xi Jinping
