China launches Long March 6 with nine satellites
April 27, 2021
China’s lightweight Long March (Chang Zheng) 6 rocket has successfully launched nine small satellites in a rideshare mission Tuesday. The launch took place at 11:20 China Standard Time (03:20 UTC) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in China’s northern Shanxi province.
Tuesday’s launch was a rideshare mission, dubbed 长征快车 – Chang Zheng Kuaiche or “Long March Express”. It was coordinated by the China Great Wall Industry Corporation, the commercial arm of China’s space agency. The nine satellites aboard will carry out technology demonstration and Earth observation missions for their operators.
A pair of Qilu remote sensing satellites, Qilu-1 and Qilu-4, are being carried for the Shandong Industrial Research Institute. Qilu-1 is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar system to provide all-weather radar imaging of the Earth’s surface. Its observations will be complemented by the panchromati
2021-01-01 08:05:23 GMT2021-01-01 16:05:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) Three, two, one! When the clock struck at midnight on Friday, a video featuring fireworks and lighting effects over Hong Kong s iconic Victoria Harbor was released online to mark the beginning of the year 2021.
This is the first-ever online Hong Kong New Year Countdown Celebrations , organized by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB). On New Year s Eve, people in Hong Kong and different parts of the world joined the countdown and celebrated the arrival of the New Year with the spectacular online video.
In the two-minute video, Chinese characters and English words including Hong Kong , good luck , love , happiness , health and prosperity were shown in the night sky of Victoria Harbor and on the facades of Hong Kong s iconic landmarks.