Chang'e-2 would take high-resolution photos of the moon's Bay of Rainbows area, the proposed landing ground for Chang'e-3. If lunar satellite Chang'e-2 sends back high-resolution photos of the Bay of Rainbows, the mission can be deemed a complete success, said the chief designer of China's lunar exploration program Friday.
China's lunar probe Chang'e-2 was successfully launched, control center at the Xichang satellite launch site in southwest China's Sichuan Province announced Friday. Chang'e-2 arrived at an earth-moon transfer orbit after it separated from the carrier rocket, which has a perigee of 200 kilometers and an apogee of about 380,000 kilometers from the earth, according to the control center.
China launched its second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2 on Friday, inaugurating the second phase of a three-step moon mission, which will culminate in a soft-landing on the moon. At 6:59:57 p.m., the satellite blasted off on a Long March 3C carrier rocket from No. 2 launch tower at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) over the past few days has held a series of programs including workshops, art performances, and visits to its retired senior members to mark its 60th founding anniversary. The Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the predecessor of the CIAE, was established in Beijing 1950.
Wang Sichao, a research fellow at the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Nanjing lately predicted "great events" concerning UFOs were going to come out in China in the next two years. In an interview with Beijing Review, he shared his views and stories with reporter Tang Yuankai.
Recently a superconductor-production line has been put into operation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) research center, which is being set up in Hefei, Anhui province by seven countries including China and the US. The Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) takes part in the establishment of the ITER research center.
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