A micro experimental satellite was named after CAS member Dr. CHEN Jiayong, professor of Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), to honor him for his personality, innovation, achievement, and dedication in the career of research and development in the field of hydrometallurgy and chemical engineering. This is the first time that a satellite was named after a Chinese scientist.
The satellite “CHEN Jiayong-1” will be launched on February 8-10, 2017 in India.
Scientific experiment project onboard the satellite was led by IPE and jointly researched and designed (R&D) by Spacepharma Israel Ltd, Spacety China Ltd., and Institute of Mechanics of CAS.
Satellite “CHEN Jiayong-1” is an entirely commercial one with low cost and short development period. It took the R&D group less than one year to complete the design, verification and launch preparation. The project opened a new, practical and sustainable cooperation mode between commercial space technology and application-oriented scientific research.
The satellite will provide an accessible, affordable and reliable microgravity research serving the chemical engineering study of the dispersion and coalescence in a liquid-liquid system. Microgravity experiment onboard aims to resolve the true mechanism of liquid-liquid interaction, which is possibly distorted by gravity.
“CHEN Jiayong-1” will offer a new perspective for the research in chemical engineering and create economic and social benefits, according to the R&D group.
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