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Jiuquan (pronounced [tɕjùtɕʰɥɛ̌n]; Chinese: 酒泉) is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu province, People's Republic of China. The entire "prefecture-level city" (that is, a multi-county administrative unit - an equivalent to the traditional Chinese prefecture) stretches for more than 600 km (370 mi) from east to west, occupying 191,342 km2 (73,878 sq mi); its population as of 2002 was 962,000.
The city's name came from legendary tale of the young Han general Huo Qubing, who poured a jar of precious ale into a local creek in order to share the taste with his troops, in celebration of their crushing victory against Xiongnu forces. The creek was later named Jiuquan ("Ale Springs"), which became the name of the Han prefecture established there. It was an active military garrison during the Later Han Dynasty.
It is known in popular legend as the place where rhubarb was first grown and is also the town where the Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer Bento de Góis (1562–1607) was robbed and died destitute.
Coordinates: 40°57′38″N 100°17′54″E / 40.96056°N 100.29833°E / 40.96056; 100.29833
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) is a Chinese space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) located in the Gobi desert, about 1,600 km from Beijing. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City (Base 10). Although the facility is geographically located within Ejin Banner of Inner Mongolia's Alxa League, it is named after the nearest city, Jiuquan in Gansu Province.
It was founded in 1958, the first of China's three spaceports. More Chinese launches have occurred at Jiuquan than anywhere else. As with all Chinese launch facilities it is remote and generally closed to foreigners.
The Satellite Launch Center is a part of Dongfeng space city (东风航天城), also known as Base 10 (十号基地) or Dongfeng base (东风基地), which also includes PLAAF test flight facilities, a space museum and a martyr's cemetery (东风烈士陵园).
JSLC is usually used to launch vehicles into lower and medium orbits with large orbital inclination angles, as well as testing medium to long-range missiles. Its facilities are state of the art and provide support to every phase of a satellite launch campaign. The site includes the Technical Center, the Launch Complex, the Launch Control Center, the Mission Command and Control Center and various other logistical support systems.
China has successfully launched the world's first quantum satellite using a Long March-2D (Chang Zheng-2D) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday. Named the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), the satellite is designed to establish ultra-secure quantum communications by transmitting quantum keys from space to Earth. It can also conduct experiments on phenomena’s found in quantum theories, such as entanglement. The 600-plus-kilogram QUESS is nicknamed "Micius," after a fifth century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist who has been credited as the first person in history to conduct optical experiments. More on: http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20160816/8029764.shtml#!language=1 Subscribe us on Youtube: ht...
China on Thursday launched space lab Tiangong-2 into space, paving the way for a permanent space station China plans to build around 2022. In a cloud of brown smoke, Tiangong-2 roared into the air underneath a mid-autumn full moon from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the back of a Long March-2F rocket, trailing a vast volume of flame.
09-25-2008
It could be any other small town in China. But these streets have witnessed the successful launch of 50 satellites, 8 spacecrafts and 1 target vehicle. The rocket shaped lampposts indicate the community's astronomical ambitions. But the small shops in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center tell the story of everyday life. Wang Jianhua has been living and working here as an engineer for 15 years. The father of an 8-year-old says he likes the simplicity of the place. Wang Jianhua, Engineer of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, said, "This community is extremely safe. And the air is good here. There's almost no pollution. " But there are inconveniences too. They are the few ones with internet access. There's only one kindergarten and one school. The closest town is a 2-hour-drive away. After wi...
Launch chinese Long March 2F withTiangong-1 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center - part 2
For more information, visit the Nuclear Threat Initiative's Jiuquan Space Launch Center page at http://www.nti.org/facilities/71/ Media inquiries: NTI: www.nti.org/newsroom CNS: Jason Warburg (jwarburg@miis.edu, 831.647.3516) CNS: Eva Gudbergsdottir (evag@miis.edu, 831.647.6606) The Jiuquan Space Launch Center (JSLC) is China's largest rocket facility and has hosted the launch of hundreds of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and surface-to-air missiles, as well as China's first and only missile-delivered nuclear test, and numerous remote sensing satellites. In 2003, Jiuquan became the first spaceport to launch a Chinese-crewed space mission. In September 2011, China launched a space laboratory module known as Tiangong -1 or "Heavenly Palace," from JLSC. Two months after Tiangong-1...
China have launched their second spacelab today, Tiangong-2, at 14:04 UTC on September 15th 2016. The Long March 2F rocket successfully took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. Tiangong-2 is an improvement on the Tiangong-1 spacelab and will be visited by the manned space flight Shenzhou 11 in October of this year.
People living at China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center have been witnesses to many of the most important moments in the history of China's space program. Some of them moved to the city for work, while later generations grew up and chose to remain, to continue their life-long dream of space exploration. Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CCTVNEWSbeijing Download for IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cctvnews-app/id922456579?l=zh&ls;=1&mt;=8 Download for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imib.cctv Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cctvnewschina Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCTVNEWS Google+: https://plus.google.com/+CCTVNEWSbeijing Tumblr: http://cctvnews.tumblr.com/ Weibo: http://weibo.com/cctvnewsbeijing
China has announced late on Thursday that the launch of its space lab Tiangong-2 was successful. A Long March-2F T2 carrier rocket, loaded with the Tiangong-2 space lab, blasted off at 10:04 pm local time on September 15 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://goo.gl/lP12gA Download for IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cctvnews-app/id922456579?l=zh&ls;=1&mt;=8 Download for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imib.cctv Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cctvnewschina Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCTVNEWS Google+: https://plus.google.com/+CCTVNEWSbeijing Tumblr: http://cctvnews.tumblr.com/ Weibo: http://weibo.com/cctvnewsbeijing
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Google Earth's latest satellite images show that there are many large, elusive architectural designs in China's Gobi Desert. These structures are distributed near the Jiuquan launch base of Chin's space program, and Ding xin military base. Google Maps recently discovered a number of strange structures in China's northwest Gobi Desert. These structures are mostly located in the junction of Xinjiang and Gansu Provinces, northwest of Dunhuang City, and north of Shule River. Two structures look like huge white lines of plan map with street without surroundings. Range in about 1.6 km long and 0.9 km wide. Between the two structures, there is a 4 ×4 s...
China successful sends remote-sensing satellite into space. Full Story: A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Yaogan-17 satellite, blasted off from the Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday morning. The satellite successfully reached its target orbit. The Yaogan-17 is mainly intended for scientific experiments, investigation of land resources, estimation of agricultural yields, and disaster management. This is the one-hundred-and-eightieth launch, of the Long March series of carrier rockets. For more news and videos visit ☛ http://ntd.tv Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C
Validated by IOC, the Olympic Flame will be lit in Olympia, Greece according to tradition on March 24, 2008. From March 24-29, the Torch Relay will travel across Greece, ending at the Panathinaiko Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. After the handover ceremony in the stadium, the Olympic Flame will arrive in Beijing on March 31, 2008. In Beijing, a ceremony will be held for the arrival of the flame into China and Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay will commence. The cities along the route are: Beijing; Almaty; Istanbul; St.Petersburg; London; Paris; San Francisco; Buenos Aires; Dar Es Salaam; Muscat; Islamabad; New Delhi; Bangkok; Kuala Lumpur; Jakarta; Canberra; Nagano; Seoul; Pyongyang; Ho Chi Minh City; Hong Kong; Macao; Hainan Province (Sanya, Wuzhishan, Wa...
SHOTLIST 1. Various of Shenzhou 7 Rocket in protective housing on launch pad 2. Wide shot of Li Hong, Director of China Space Technology Group, talking to press 3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Li Hong, Director of China Space Technology Group, Rocket Institute: "So the Chinese Long March rocket is now becoming an international brand. It has been very warmly received overseas by customers that want to launch satellites, and there has been a lot of positive cooperation." 4. Cutaway to camera 5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Li Hong, Director of China Space Technology Group, Rocket Institute: "Today, after we successfully complete our responsibilities here, we are going to turn our attention back to satellite payload and launch services right away." 6. Set up shot of Gu Yidong, Chief Designer of Ch...
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