Dongfang Hour - the China Space Podcast

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! In this special episode, we wrap up the year by going over 8 events that marked the Chinese space sector in 2021 (very subjective, of course!).

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In this episode, we discuss the following:

• China Announces a Lunar Base with Russia
• The Tianwen-1 Mission (and the Zhurong Rover) Reaches Mars
• China SatNet: the Chinese Answer to Starlink
• SAR Becomes a Hot Topic
• A Big Year in Launch, but That Could Have Been Even Bigger
• New Developments with Coastal Launch Sites
• Plans for (Sub)orbital Space Tourism
• China Begins the Construction of the Tiangong Space Station

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour 

This week, we discuss the following:

• Failure of Expace's Kuaizhou-1A
• Impact on Geespace & other satellite companies
• Rocket Pi launches micro-gravity platform Sparkle-1 

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com).
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This week, we discuss:

• The 2nd Successful Launch of the Ceres-1 Rocket
• Deep Dive into the Payloads
• Interview with Galactic Energy Systems Engineer - Liu Hong

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com).
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This week, we discuss:

• A CN startup plans to commercialize GEO relay satellites
• An interview with the CEO of Landspace: Roger Zhang
• Tiangang - a new 36-satellite EO constellation
• A busy week/month for the CNSA

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). 

This week, we focus specifically on launch updates from the CCAF (China Commercial Aerospace Forum):

• Introduction
• iSpace invests massively in space tourism
• Progress with CASIC’s spaceplanes
• Major shift in Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula rocket series
• Space Trek plans larger rockets
• AAEngine goes from engines to rockets
• Expace announces an impressive launch cadence
• Landspace confirms reusability of the ZQ-2 first stage
• Xingyun-3 satellites should be deployed in 2022

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com).

This week, we discuss:

• China betting on sea-based launch services
• First China-Africa Beidou conference
• Revisiting the concept of US-China space race
• Adaspace new round of funding

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com).

This week, we discuss:

• Shenzhou-13 performs a historic spacewalk
• Commercial launch startup iSpace sets foot in Hainan
• Mars orbiter Tianwen-1 switches to a space sciences orbit

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com).

This week, we discuss:

• Introduction
• Spacety Announces a New Constellation in Collaboration with BUPT
• Orienspace's New co-CEO and Rockets
• Linkspace Develops a Pump-Fed Engine, the Fengbao-1
  
  

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter and our website.

This week, we discuss:

1. Mars Express & Zhurong to perform blind data transmission experiments in November 
2. China breaks new launch record, passes 40 launches
3. Launch vehicle startup Rocket Pi purchases JZYJ methalox engines for the Darwin-1 rocket
4. Teaser on the 2021 China Satellite conference 

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 Hello and welcome to another interviews series episode on the Dongfang Hour! This is the second part of our interview with Molly Silk, released on October 6.
Molly is a doctoral researcher in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Molly's research focuses on topics such as China's space policy, and cultural, communicative, and cooperative efforts linked to the Chinese space program.

In Part 2 of this episode, we focus on an iconic product of Chinese space culture, the sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth (流浪地球), released in 2019. Special thanks to Aurélie Gillet, a collaborator at the Dongfang Hour, who kindly accepted to be the interviewer (Blaine and I admittedly weren't very familiar with the movie...).

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