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How Do Rockets Find Their Way Home? Three Mainstream Recovery Methods Explained
Read more →: How Do Rockets Find Their Way Home? Three Mainstream Recovery Methods ExplainedOn August 19, the Zhuque-3 Y2 launch vehicle lifted off from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone.…
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Xiopm SPACE’s Qin Jing: What Is the Real Commercial Value of Space-Based Computing?
Read more →: Xiopm SPACE’s Qin Jing: What Is the Real Commercial Value of Space-Based Computing?In 2026, space-based computing emerged as a major new direction for the commercial space industry. What problems is…
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BeiDou Technology Helps Overcome the “Information Islands” Isolating Small Hydropower Plants in Southwestern China
Read more →: BeiDou Technology Helps Overcome the “Information Islands” Isolating Small Hydropower Plants in Southwestern ChinaA research team from China Southern Power Grid’s Guizhou Electric Power Research Institute has integrated BeiDou high-precision positioning…
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A Decade of Sentinel-1 Scanning the Globe: How Much Flooding Have We Been Missing?
Read more →: A Decade of Sentinel-1 Scanning the Globe: How Much Flooding Have We Been Missing?Key takeaway: Several global flood datasets already exist, but their long-term records rely primarily on optical remote sensing…
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Inside the Global Reusable Rocket Engine Race: Who Is Defining the Next-Generation Heart of Spaceflight?
Read more →: Inside the Global Reusable Rocket Engine Race: Who Is Defining the Next-Generation Heart of Spaceflight?If rocket engines could only be used once, the space economy would remain an expensive one-way journey. But…
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First Geological Mapping Results from China-Saudi Geoscience Cooperation Released
Read more →: First Geological Mapping Results from China-Saudi Geoscience Cooperation ReleasedSaudi Arabia’s Geological Survey released the first batch of 24 detailed 1:100,000-scale geological maps of the Saudi Arabian…
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China Unveils First AI Systems for Geological Mapping and Mineral Prospecting
Read more →: China Unveils First AI Systems for Geological Mapping and Mineral ProspectingChina’s Ministry of Natural Resources on Sept. 11 unveiled the AI-GeoMapping and AI-OreSeeking systems at the 2026 China…
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Both Bound for the Moon: Why Are NASA’s SLS and SpaceX’s Starship So Different?
Read more →: Both Bound for the Moon: Why Are NASA’s SLS and SpaceX’s Starship So Different?On one side is the orange-and-white SLS. On the other is Starship, resembling a stainless-steel tower. Both are…
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From Precision Landings to Rapid Turnaround: Key Technologies Behind Reusable Rocket Engines
Read more →: From Precision Landings to Rapid Turnaround: Key Technologies Behind Reusable Rocket EnginesWith the successful recoveries of the Long March 10B and Zhuque-3, rocket recovery and reuse have become one…
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Why Was the Rocket Unscathed After Being Struck by Lightning?
Read more →: Why Was the Rocket Unscathed After Being Struck by Lightning?On July 24, China successfully launched the Tianlian II-06 satellite aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the…
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InSAR Monitoring for Infrastructure: Ground Subsidence and Geohazard Assessment
Read more →: InSAR Monitoring for Infrastructure: Ground Subsidence and Geohazard AssessmentAs the old saying goes, it’s better to catch a problem while it’s still small. For infrastructure such…
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Seven Chinese Private Companies Building the Optical Backbone for Satellite Networks
Read more →: Seven Chinese Private Companies Building the Optical Backbone for Satellite NetworksChina’s commercial space sector is moving satellite laser communications from isolated technology demonstrations toward multi-satellite networking and batch…