Great Achievements in China's Space Technology
Ever since the opening of satellite education TV broadcasting
programs over a dozen years ago, more than 30 million people have received
college or technical secondary school education and training through it.
China has also set up a satellite direct broadcasting experimental platform
to transmit CCTV and local satellite TV programs by digital compression to the
vast rural areas which wireless TV broadcasting cannot cover. In this way,
China's TV broadcasting coverage has been greatly increased.
China has about 189,000-satellite TV broadcasting receiving stations. The
China broadband multi-media education satellite transmission network has also
been established on the satellite direct broadcasting experimental platform to
provide comprehensive remote education and information technology services.
3. Satellite Navigation
In the early 1980s, China began to use other countries' navigation satellites
and develop the application technology of satellite navigation and positioning,
which is now widely used in many fields including land survey, ship navigation,
aircraft navigation, earthquake monitoring, geological calamity monitoring,
forest fire prevention and control, and urban traffic control. After joining the
COSPAS-SARSAT in 1992, China established the Chinese Mission Control Center,
thus greatly improving the capability of the emergency alarm service for ships,
aircraft, and vehicles.
Space Science
China started to explore the upper atmosphere using rockets and balloons in
the early 1960s. In the early 1970s, China began to use the scientific
exploration and technological testing satellites of the "SJ" group in a series
of space explorations and studies, and acquired a large amount of valuable data
about the space environment.
|