Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation SMIC, announced on Wed a deal for $1.2 bln worth of purchase orders with Dutch mask aligner manufacturing giant, ASML, based on an amended and restated volume purchase agreement.
Tianwen-1, China’s first Mars probe, successfully reached the Red Planet on Wednesday at around 7:52 pm, homing in on the Earth’s planetary neighbor after an epic seven-month journey of nearly 500 million kilometers.
After a 15-minute firing of its 3,000-newton thrust engine, the spacecraft reached an elliptical Mars orbit at around 400 kilometers from the planet, according to a statement China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) provided to the Global Times on Wednesday.
Tianwen-1 circuitous flight has seen the spacecraft travel some 475 million kilometers, taking it some 192 million kilometers from Earth, with all systems in good condition, CNSA said. The communication time delay between the probe and Earth is about 10.7 minutes.
It will carry out several orbital course corrections before finally selecting a landing spot and touching down, which is scheduled to happen between May and June.
2-8-21 China’s first homegrown quantum computer operating system was unveiled in Hefei, E.China’s Anhui Province on Monday.
The system, developed by Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co Ltd., will be used on quantum computers – a type of new computers that have been touted as being able to solve complex computational problems much faster than any classic computers.
The new OS has been optimized for the resource management and parallel processing capabilities of quantum computers. It can also calibrate the quantum chips automatically, according to the company.
Currently, only dozens of quantum computers are available in the world. Experts believe if they are not being used effectively, their incredible computing power will be wasted.
China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe sent back its first image of Mars. It has travelled about 465 million kilometers, reaching more than 184 million kilometers from earth and 1.1 million kilometers from Mars as of 8 pm Friday.
2-4-21 China has successfully sent its communication experimental satellite-6 into preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket at 23:36 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.
2-1-21 At 12:00pm, China’s first 8K TV UHD channel, CCTV8K UHD channel, was successfully broadcasted.
Unit 5 of China’s Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s first Hualong One nuclear power plant was put into commercial operation on Saturday using China’s Hualong One third-generation nuclear power technology.
11-29-21 At 12:47, China successfully launched the Remote Sensing 31 Group 02 satellite with a Long March 4C carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and the satellite entered the predetermined orbit. The satellites are mainly used to carry out electromagnetic environment detection and related technology tests.
1-20-21 China successfully conducted the year’s first space launch from
Xichang Satellite Launch Center in SW China’s Sichuan,
The satellite Tiantong 1-03 was launched at by Long March-3B carrier rocket and entered planned orbit successfully.
1-14-21, National Astronomical Observatory Beijing-Arizona BASS survey team and the Dark Energy Spectral Survey DESI International Collaboration Project team jointly released the latest giant two-dimensional sky map of the universe. This is the largest cosmic sky map obtained by human measurement so far. 200 researchers from all over the world have spent 6 years on joint observation and data analysis, covering 20,000 square degrees of the sky, which is about half the area of the whole celestial sphere, accommodating 10 trillion digital pixels and containing 2 billion celestial objects.
