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China plans to launch Taiji-2 satellite before 2024: chief scientist by Staff Writers Beijing (XNA) Sep 21, 2020
China plans to launch Taiji-2, a satellite to conduct in-orbit experiments on key technologies related to space-based gravitational wave detection, before 2024, Wu Yueliang, chief scientist of the Taiji program, said on Friday. Taiji-1, China's first satellite in the program, was launched in August 2019 and has been performing well in orbit, said Wu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), at the ongoing 2020 China Space Conference held in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian Province. "Taiji-1 has taken the fundamental step in China's gravitational wave detection. Its experimental results have verified the correctness and the feasibility of the whole Taiji program," Wu added. CAS set out a three-step strategy to implement the Taiji program. It took a research team about one year to develop Taiji-1. Two satellites are expected to be launched in the second step, and three more in the third step.
Into microgravity with face masks Buren, Germany (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 It is the 35th parabolic flight campaign of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), but nothing is routine on these flights under microgravity conditions. For the first time, scientists, engineers, and flight crew must master the challenges of their experimental research during the Coronavirus pandemic. At the very last moment, the flights had to be rescheduled. Due to a sharp increase in Coronavirus infections in France, the parabolic flights planned for the ... read more
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