China’s efforts for space exploration for peaceful purposes are increasingly the focus of international attention.
According to Chinese media outlets on April 16, an atmospheric environment observation satellite was successfully launched at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre atop Long March 4C carrier rocket.
It was reportedly the 90th launch of Long March 4-series carrier rockets.
The satellite will be used for the application of long-distance observation of ecological environment, weather, agriculture and other fields of China. It will be of great significance in enhancing the comprehensive application efficiency of satellite resources and improving environmental protection.
Such efforts have earned China a leading position in the field of worldwide space exploration.
According to The Global Times on April 28, a total of 12 000 seeds completed the space breeding travel with the return of the crew of Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-13. Seeds of white clover, oats, rice, edible mushroom and cabbage were carried to the outer space by the spaceship and brought back to the earth on April 16 after staying there for 183 days.
China has secured new seeds of nearly 1 000 crop varieties since it started space seed breeding in 1987, 35 years ago. Of them 200 varieties proved to be high-yielding.
They include cereal crops, vegetables, fruits and other plants and China has reportedly millions of hectares of farmland specializing in such space seed breeding.
On April 30, it also launched a satellite, Jilin 1 Gufen 03D(04-07)/04A, which will provide commercial remote sensing service to the fields of national land resources survey, long-term urban planning, disaster monitoring and measurement, in the East China Sea and put it into projected orbit.
Russia, which succeeded in the first manned space flight in the world, puts constant effort into space exploration for peaceful purposes.
It now focuses on localizing aerospace industries for sustainable space development for peaceful purposes.
On April 12, President Putin met the general manager of the state-run company Roscosmos to mark the Day of Cosmonaut and discussed various issues concerning the localization of aerospace industries and the development of the company.
Russia also pays attention to the joint development projects with other countries.
On the same day, the Russian President held talks with the Belarus President at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region and agreed to work together with each other to push ahead with a plan for launching Lunar-25 interplanetary automatic space station. The plan is reportedly aimed at landing on the polar circle of the moon for the first time in human history.
The main direction of mutual cooperation between the two countries is the joint construction of infrastructure to guarantee free travel to space.
Earlier on April 9, the Russian government approved the conclusion of an agreement on space exploration with Venezuela and officially announced that the two governments began preparations for launching a joint programme.
India, a main player in space exploration, is also pressing on with a plan for sending into space 75 small satellites made by its students on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its independence.
They are expected to be launched atop a rocket of the Indian space research centre between August 15 2022 and 2023.
Zambia also works hard to develop artificial earth satellite.
On April 23, the Zambian President set the government a goal of developing and launching an artificial earth satellite by itself within two years at a meeting of the leadership of the government party.
To attain the goal a technical committee for satellite development has been organized in Zambia, comprising the higher education committee, leading universities and defence science institute with the state scientific research institute as its parent body. Dozens of renowned professors and PhDs were appointed as its executive directors, with hundreds of scientists and technicians involved in the satellite development. They have already worked out a roadmap and action plans and entered into a full-scale development stage.
Positive efforts made by various countries for the development and use of space for peaceful purposes will surely bear good fruit and make a great contribution to promoting the wellbeing of humanity.
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