China Space Military：Recon, Satcom, Navi, ASAT/BMD, Orbital Vehicle, SLV, etc.

[Beidou2020]

Images taken by the country's most advanced civilian Earth observation satellite were released on Monday as a senior official announced that an orbiting high-definition network will be created by 2020.

The images were shot by the Gaofen-2 satellite between Aug 21 and Monday. They show parts of cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Harbin, as well as famous sites abroad including the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

There are also images of temporary settlements in Ludian, Yunnan province, the epicenter of a 6.5-magnitude earthquake that struck in August.

Gaofen-2, which was launched at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province on Aug 19, can distinguish a 1-meter-long object and photograph it in full color from 600 kilometers above the Earth, according to the China National Space Administration.

"It is China's most advanced high-definition Earth observation satellite for civilian purposes," Xu Dazhe, the administration's director, said in Beijing.

"The country will accelerate the development of other high-definition Earth observation satellites that will form a network before 2020.

"We are working with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp and Chinese Academy of Sciences on the development of Gaofen-3, a round-the-clock, all-weather, radar-based Earth observation satellite."

Xu said Gaofen-4 and Gaofen-5, which will have higher resolution imaging equipment than the existing satellites, are also under development.

"We plan to send these three satellites into orbit in 2015 and 2016, while speeding up research on Gaofen-6 and Gaofen-7," he said.

China initiated the Gaofen program in May 2010 and listed it as one of the nation's 16 most important science and technology projects.

The first satellite, Gaofen-1, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in April last year.

Wu Yanhua, the administration's deputy director, said Gaofen-2's instrument settings are currently being optimized, a task that is due to be completed by November.

Its systems and equipment will then be tested, and it is expected to become fully operational by next February.

More than 20 government departments and industries will use images provided by Gaofen-2. The satellite will carry out land monitoring and mineral, urban management and disaster prevention surveys in conjunction with Gaofen-1.

Gao Ping, deputy head of international collaboration at the Ministry of Land and Resources, said: "With the Gaofen satellites entering service, we have gained reliable access to high-quality, high-definition images and have commenced trial application projects in eight provinces."

The images will also be used during relief operations and for environmental protection and agricultural planning purposes.




Advanced Chinese Satellite Releases Photos

A total of 15 high-resolution photos have been sent back by Gaofen-2, which was launched in August.

The photos include images of downtown Beijing and the bund area in Shanghai.

Gaofen-2 can capture the image of a meter-long object from space in full color.

This allows for much sharper pictures, and images strong enough to determine the type of a vehicles driving down the roads and images of pedestrians crossing the street.

The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense says it plans to use the new satellite to help with a variety of tasks, including land use surveillance, mineral resource surveys and disaster relief.

Xu Wen is a satellite expert with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

He says engineers can use Gaofen-2 to calculate the height of buildings.

"The height of the highest building in Shanghai's Lujiazui District is about 600 meters. We can see its projection is longer than that of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. We can measure and calculate the height of buildings via the length of their projection in the photos. Then we can judge the construction progress."

Different sensors carried on the satellite can also monitor crop growth, soil moisture and other things related to agriculture.

Chen Zhongxin is a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

"We can integrate the satellite data with our agriculture knowledge and professional models to extract professional agricultural data and provide real-time information to ordinary farmers and farms. Now that we are able to do this technically, we should be able to provide real-time services in about five years."

Xu Dazhe, head of China's National Space Administration, says Gaofen-2 and its predecessor, Gaofen-1, boast different advantages and the combined use of them will only create more benefits.

"Gaofen-1 and Gaofen-2 are different in terms of resolution as well as observation scope and method. The latter is good at observing target in a flexible manner due to its swing capabilities. I believe the cooperation of the two satellites will bring more detailed data for users. "

Gaofen-2 is the second of seven satellites to be launched as part of China's indigenous high-definition observation project.

The overall Gaofen project is expected to be operational by 2020.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Can you please share the images or the source link where images can be seen. Any Indian city?

 

[Beidou2020]

Can you please share the images or the source link where images can be seen. Any Indian city?

You can click on this link and see all the images

我国首批亚米级高分辨率卫星影像图发布

 

[Beidou2020]

Close up of Central Beijing

 

[qwerrty]

that resolution + 45 km swath and around 1000kg is pretty good. lol

 

[terranMarine]

China released images taken by Gaofen-2 satellite that was put into orbit a month ago in August.

This image show Beijing.
View attachment 96689
And Shanghai

I read one of the images showed the zebra crossing, if you find it don't forget to post it

 

[JSCh]

I read one of the images showed the zebra crossing, if you find it don't forget to post it

Link of the official website that release the images.
我国首批亚米级高分辨率卫星影像图发布

 

[TaiShang]

Beidou sat nav sees increasing civil use

SHENYANG, Sept. 29-- China's Beidou navigation satellite system is being more frequently applied in the country's civil projects, authorities said at an expo in northeast China on Monday.

In Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, there has been surging use of the system in environmental sanitation, logistics and school buses, with the mapping largely used to beef up management efficiency and road safety in the city, according to the local government.

It will take a bigger role in government administration, marine fishery and emergency rescues in the future, the government of Shenbei New District said.

The Beidou sat nav system is one of the four large sat nav systems in the world. Its service currently covers the Asia-Pacific region.

The system began to provide precision positioning, real-time navigation, location reporting, precise time reading and short message services for users in China and the Asia-Pacific in December 2012. The government is aiming to make it a global system with 35 geostationary orbit and non-geostationary orbit satellites by 2020.

 

[bobsm]

I really think the Mainland should just forget about cooperating with the west and just do it on its own.

65th International Astronautical Congress | Visa Issues Keep Russian, Chinese Engineers Away from IAC 2014
By Peter B. de Selding | Sep. 29, 2014
Walter Natynczyk, president fo the CSA, said it is Canada’s foreign ministry that handles visa issues and that the CSA – host. of this year’s IAC — was not made aware of the visa issue until only a couple of days before the congress started. Credit: CSA photo

TORONTO — Multiple Russian and Chinese space engineers failed to obtain visas to attend the 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here this year, an absence that undermined space agency arguments that space cooperation should not be subject to short-term political issues.

The absence of many in the planned Russian and Chinese delegations left gaps in sessions related to the future of the international space station, the development of new Chinese rockets and other topics.

At a panel featuring the heads of the world’s major space agencies, the Mexican Space Agency stood in for the missing Chinese and Russian participants. Almost all of those making speeches — the heads of the U.S., European, Indian, Canadian and Japanese space agencies, in addition to Mexico — stressed the need for international collaboration at a time when no nation can go it alone.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that if one looked only at the way the international space station is being managed — both in orbit and in terms of astronaut launches and returns aboard Soyuz capsules — one would have no idea of the tensions now stressing relations between Russia and the West.

China has always been a special case in the United States, where NASA by law is prohibited from doing much with China’s quickly expanding space program.

The U.S. government has specifically exempted the space station, where Russia is the biggest of NASA’s partners, from any embargoes or sanctions following Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.

Berndt Feuerbacher, a past president of the International Astronautical Federation and the moderator of the panel with the heads of space agencies, publicly apologized for the visa issues that have put so many holes in this year’s IAC program, and stretched the credibility of the idea that space is a protected domain.

“This was not our intention,” Feuerbacher said when questioned about how a panel discussing global space cooperation could do without China and Russia. “It is very unfortunate that problems in the visa area meant those delegations could not be here today. I apologize.”

Walter Natynczyk, president of the Canadian Space Agency, said it is Canada’s foreign ministry that handles visa issues and that the Canadian Space Agency — host of this year’s IAC — was not made aware of the visa issue until only a couple of days before the congress started Sept. 29.

To date, Canada is the only Western government to have extended Russian sanctions to barring a satellite from being exported to Russia for launch aboard a Soyuz rocket. A Canadian maritime monitoring satellite, which was financed by the government but was to be used as part of Canada’s exactEarth commercial venture, was denied an export license at the last minute, apparently because of pressure from Canada’s large Ukrainian expatriate community.

The United States, Europe and Asian nations have continued to send commercial and scientific satellites to Russia for launch.

The annual IAC has always prided itself on being an island of nearly pure engineering and future-think in a world of political upheaval. Iranian delegates have been regular attendees, as have representatives from other nations whose space programs have zero contact with the West.

 

[Beast]

I really think the Mainland should just forget about cooperating with the west and just do it on its own.

65th International Astronautical Congress | Visa Issues Keep Russian, Chinese Engineers Away from IAC 2014
By Peter B. de Selding | Sep. 29, 2014
Walter Natynczyk, president fo the CSA, said it is Canada’s foreign ministry that handles visa issues and that the CSA – host. of this year’s IAC — was not made aware of the visa issue until only a couple of days before the congress started. Credit: CSA photo

TORONTO — Multiple Russian and Chinese space engineers failed to obtain visas to attend the 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here this year, an absence that undermined space agency arguments that space cooperation should not be subject to short-term political issues.

The absence of many in the planned Russian and Chinese delegations left gaps in sessions related to the future of the international space station, the development of new Chinese rockets and other topics.

At a panel featuring the heads of the world’s major space agencies, the Mexican Space Agency stood in for the missing Chinese and Russian participants. Almost all of those making speeches — the heads of the U.S., European, Indian, Canadian and Japanese space agencies, in addition to Mexico — stressed the need for international collaboration at a time when no nation can go it alone.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that if one looked only at the way the international space station is being managed — both in orbit and in terms of astronaut launches and returns aboard Soyuz capsules — one would have no idea of the tensions now stressing relations between Russia and the West.

China has always been a special case in the United States, where NASA by law is prohibited from doing much with China’s quickly expanding space program.

The U.S. government has specifically exempted the space station, where Russia is the biggest of NASA’s partners, from any embargoes or sanctions following Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.

Berndt Feuerbacher, a past president of the International Astronautical Federation and the moderator of the panel with the heads of space agencies, publicly apologized for the visa issues that have put so many holes in this year’s IAC program, and stretched the credibility of the idea that space is a protected domain.

“This was not our intention,” Feuerbacher said when questioned about how a panel discussing global space cooperation could do without China and Russia. “It is very unfortunate that problems in the visa area meant those delegations could not be here today. I apologize.”

Walter Natynczyk, president of the Canadian Space Agency, said it is Canada’s foreign ministry that handles visa issues and that the Canadian Space Agency — host of this year’s IAC — was not made aware of the visa issue until only a couple of days before the congress started Sept. 29.

To date, Canada is the only Western government to have extended Russian sanctions to barring a satellite from being exported to Russia for launch aboard a Soyuz rocket. A Canadian maritime monitoring satellite, which was financed by the government but was to be used as part of Canada’s exactEarth commercial venture, was denied an export license at the last minute, apparently because of pressure from Canada’s large Ukrainian expatriate community.

The United States, Europe and Asian nations have continued to send commercial and scientific satellites to Russia for launch.

The annual IAC has always prided itself on being an island of nearly pure engineering and future-think in a world of political upheaval. Iranian delegates have been regular attendees, as have representatives from other nations whose space programs have zero contact with the West.

China is fully on her own. Even the space station is funded and build entirely on her own effort. I can't wait for the day, China space station ban US involvement. With US get more involvement in ISIS. Meaning more precious fund is drained. ISS will be hard to sustain after 2020.

 

[JSCh]

From Chinese Journal of Space Science,

Science Researches of Chinese Manned Space Flight
GU Yidong GAO Ming ZHAO Guangheng LIU Yingchun JIN Zhaojun
(Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190)

Abstract

With the complete success of the 2nd stage of Chinese Manned Space Program (CMSP),
several science researches have been performed on Tiangong-1 experimental spacelab, which was docked with three Shenzhou spaceships one after another. The China’s real spacelab, Tiangong-2 will be launched in 2015, docked with a Shenzhou spaceship soon.

After six months, it will be docked with the first Chinese cargo ship (Tianzhou-1). More space science researches, involving with space biology, fluid physics, fundamental physics, materials science, Earth science, astronomy and space environmental science, will be operated on Tiangong-2 spacelab, and crewed and cargo spaceships.

Furthermore, the considerable large-scale space utilization of Shina’s Space Station is
planned. The research fields include yet not limited to space medicine and physiology, space life science and biotechnology, fluid physics and combustion in microgravity, space material science, and fundamental physics in microgravity, space astronomy, Earth science, space physics and space environment utilization, technology demonstration.

1. Progress and Future Plans of China’s Manned Space Program

Tiangong-1, serving as a target spacecraft as well as an experimental space laboratory, was visited by the other two Shenzhou spaceships after Shenzhou-8 in the latest two years. Shenzhou-9 spaceship docked with Tiangong-1 in June, 2012, which was China’s
first manned spacecraft rendezvous and docking. Liu Yang, the first Chinese female astronaut, was among the crew. One year later, Shenzhou-10 spaceship docked with Tiangong-1 in June 2013 with another female astronaut. Now Tiangong-1 has exceeded its planned two-year operational life time and entered the extension application phase. It will continue to work in orbit till the fuel runs out.

With the complete success of these spaceflight missions as a milestone, China’s Manned Space Pro-gram (CMSP) will enter a new phase of manned space station construction. Tiangong-2, serving as a real space laboratory, will be launched in 2015. Half a year later, the first cargo ship (named Tianzhou-1) will be launched and dock with Tiangong-2 in 2016. In 2018, the first module as the core module of the multi-module space station of China will be launched. And two experimental modules will be launched into space in 2020 and 2022 respectively. The China’s manned space station is planned to be a state-level space laboratory, for carrying out successive space science researches, technology demonstrations and some space applications.

Between 2015 and 2022, there will be a series of cargo ships and manned spaceships transporting crews and supplies to the space laboratory and space station.

 

[onebyone]

Go China

 

[JSCh]

China successfully launches Yaogan-22 remote sensing satellite, mainly for scientific use

 

[cirr]

China lofts Yaogan-22 via Long March 4C rocket

October 20, 2014 by Rui C. Barbosa

The Chinese have launched another new satellite in the military’s Yaogan Weixing series via the use of a Long March-4C (Chang Zheng-4C) rocket. The mission began with lift off at 06:31 UTC on Monday from the LC901 launch platform of the LC9 launch complex at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.

Chinese Launch:

Chinese media is referring to the new satellite as ‘a new remote sensing bird that will be used for scientific experiments, land survey, crop yield assessment, and disaster monitoring’.

As was the case in the last launches of the Yaogan Weixing series, western analysts believe this class of satellites is used for military purposes.

The previous launch in this series took place on September 8, when a Long March-4B launch vehicle orbited a satellite believed to be the third electro-optical, second generation satellite equipped with a short-angle observation system and a Phoenix Eye-2 based bus.

This launch was the 207th Chinese orbital launch, the 195th success and the 194th launch of the Long March launch vehicle family. It was also the 48th successful orbital launch from the Taiyuan Satellite launch Center, the 3rd launch from this space center in 2014 and the 7th orbital launch for China this year.

 

[Keel]

　　本组图像由国防科工局重大专项工程中心和中国科学院遥感与数字地球研究所提供。

　

大地的“肌肉”
　
新疆 昌吉州 呼图壁县 山谷

　
　 　图像上方的方块是农田，此时农作物尚未返青，地块呈现灰褐色。沉积岩层经流水侵蚀切割所形成的山脉，中间如灰白色“骨骼”状的东西方向连续山丘是坚硬的 岩层所残留的，而下方大片红色是由于山上的植物覆盖所致。图像正中自上而下的是山谷中的一条河流。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2014年4月20日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

　



大地在“倾听”
　
新疆吐鲁番鄯善县罗布泊镇




　 　“大耳朵”区域是典型的内陆湖泊逐年干涸后湖盆经风蚀所形成的雅丹地貌，是我国西部典型的荒漠景观。蓝色的人工水库和浅粉色的戈壁绿洲，为枯燥的黄褐色 的戈壁和沙漠增添了一笔鲜活的色彩。 （高分一号卫星-WFV多光谱相机 2013年10月9日观测，图像大小200公里x200公里，空间分辨率16米）

大地的“年轮”
　
甘肃 酒泉市 阿克塞县 附近




　　大地的“年轮”记录了历史的沧桑，这是内陆湖泊逐年干涸后留下的印记。多年之后，人类的活动唤醒了蕴藏丰富资源的大地，一条道路自左向右横穿整块区域。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2014年3月25日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

游弋在戈壁滩上的“水母”
　
甘肃 酒泉 敦煌市 附近




　　不同类型和不同年代形成的戈壁滩，层次分明。扇状洪积物特别明显，白色区域是盐碱地，“水母”须是水流形成的冲积沟。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2013年8月2日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

湖中之“吻”
　
青海 海北州 青海湖畔 东北角




　　中部灰白色部分为在风蚀作用下形成的流沙，下部白色部分为流水与风力共同形成的湖中沙坝。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2013年10月8日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

山河相间显“秋颜”
　
甘肃 庆阳市 正宁县 崇山峻岭




　　亮红色部分与褐色部分层次分明，反映了不同类型的植被。图像中的白色线状部分是季节性河流形成的干涸沟谷。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2013年11月16日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

高原九曲十八弯
　
陕西延安黄陵县 洛河




　 　这是典型的黄土高原地貌，在长期流水侵蚀下地面被分割得非常破碎，形成沟壑交错其间的塬、墚、峁、川。平坦的墚顶和峁顶，一般进行农田耕作，呈现微暗的 粉红色。蜿蜒迩流的洛河贯穿整个区域。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2014年1月28日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

海滩利用展宏图
　
山东 东营 河口区 海滩




　 　排列整齐如“网格”的盐田和养殖场是海滩利用的主要形式之一。作为胜利油田所在地的东营海滩，则广泛分布着 “白点”状的油井。图像中上方的白色直线是调流坝。（高分一号卫星-PMS多光谱相机 2013年6月14日观测，图像大小40公里x40公里，空间分辨率8米）

沙漠中的绿洲
　
新疆 和田 墨玉县




　　图像黄色是沙漠，图像下方是高山，山上的河流自南向北流动，在山前形成绿洲（红色部分）。（高分一号卫星-WFV多光谱相机 2014年4月29日观测，图像大小200公里x200公里，空间分辨率16米）

大地上的“红叶”
　
山西 长治市 附近




　 　图像中间如“红叶”般的区域山体植被覆盖较好，流水侵蚀导致的沟谷特征如同“红叶”的叶脉一般。图像左下方粉红色是农作物耕作区。图像右下方白色区域是 积雪覆盖。（高分一号卫星-WFV多光谱相机 2013年11月27日观测，图像大小200公里x200公里，空间分辨率16米）

「高分一號」拍攝的新疆昌吉州呼圖壁縣山谷「大地的『肌肉』」自然地理地貌圖像/中新社
Photo taken by GF-1 (Gaofen-1) High-resolution Imaging Satellite of Xinjiang Changji Hutubi County valley "of the earth's muscle", natural geographical landscape image / CNS[/quote]

Breath-taking
Rep deserved