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Zhou Enlai CubeSat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 2U CubeSat Zhou Enlai<\/strong> \u5468\u6069\u6765 developed with primary and middle school students is expected to launch on Friday, January 19, 2018.<\/p>\n

The satellite is named after the first Premier of the PRC. Zhou Enlai held office from October 1949 until January 1976.<\/p>\n

A report on Xinhua Net says:<\/p>\n

The satellite was sent from its production base in Huai’an Youth Comprehensive Development Base in east China’s Jiangsu Province to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gansu Province Monday, where a CZ-11 solid fuel rocket is scheduled to put it into orbit Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Twenty teenagers who participated in the development project accompanied the transport group to the launch center and will witness the lift-off.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zhang Xiang, chief designer of the satellite, said that the nano-satellite, weighing 2 kilograms, is set to run in sun-synchronous orbit. Equipped with a HD optical camera, it can capture space photos with the highest resolution among those shot by other Chinese satellites for scientific education purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zhang said that the students had taken their spare time to join the development and groundbased simulation performance of the satellite, and had learnt to assemble and practice voice data transfer and telecommunication applications.<\/em><\/p>\n

“A scientific satellite like this is like a teacher in space, carrying cameras or spectroscopes to study the upper atmosphere or to shoot space pictures of the stars. Students can grasp the mystery of the universe through the messages transmitted by the teacher,” said Zhang, a professor with Nanjing University of Science and Engineering.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the full story at http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2018-01\/17\/c_136902466.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

The IARU satellite pages list a 2U CubeSat called HA-1 with FM transponder and SSTV developed by the Teenagers Amateur Radio Center of Activity in Huai’an. Zhou Enlai may well be the new name for this satellite
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