What is the lunar mission for? Lunar exploration is significant if measured from a long-term perspective, explained Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's lunar orbiter project. The availability of precious resources on the moon will trigger a race for energy one day. “If we are indifferent to this opportunity, it will be very difficult to safeguard our future interests, not to mention the right to speak ,” warned Ouyang.
How to design a hypersonic airplane that travel from Beijing to New York in only two hours? Dr. Cui Kai and his group from State Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences set out to tackle this problem. After three years of innovative research, they presented a body-wing-blending configuration with double flanking air inlets layout to aim at design requirements of high lift-to-drag ratio as well as high volumetric efficiency of next generation hypersonic airplanes.
Over 40 years ago, a US lunar probe first landed on moon. Doubts have been expressed that China’s lunar exploration is doing no more than following suit. Ouyang Ziyuan, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the first chief scientist of the Chang’e project, says that our lunar exploration is not a simple repetition, but a test of new space technology.
China is expanding its eco-environment technology presence in Central Asia with two research centers to be established next year. The two centers will be created in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to facilitate cooperation with scientists from Central Asia, according to Chen Xi, director of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Five of the eight pieces of scientific equipment aboard Chang'e-3 lunar probe have started to observe space, the Earth and the Moon, a Chinese scientist said on Monday. They have entered working mode and telescopes and cameras have produced clear images, Zou Yongliao, a scientist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at a press conference.
China's first lunar rover and the lander took pictures of each other near mid-night on Sunday, marking the complete success of the country's Chang'e-3 lunar probe mission. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, who both came to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center late Sunday night to watch the photo-taking session, congratulated scientists for the success.
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