Since ancient times, the Chinese people's inquiry and exploration of the universe has never stopped. In the "Book of Poetry, Xiao Ya", it is recorded: "The moon is separated from Bi, and the Tuotuo is Tuotuo". It means that the moon moves to Bilju – according to the position of Taurus, there will be heavy rain. The earliest record of meteor showers in the world is Chinese description of the Lyra meteor shower, and the Zuo Zhuan has: The seventh year of the Duke of Luzhuang (687 BC) "In the summer of April, the stars are missing, and the stars in the night are like rain." In ancient China, in order to understand the stars and observe the celestial phenomena, the stars were divided into three walls, twenty-eight houses, etc., and established a forward-looking and excellent cosmology.
Xi'an Space Base Moon Pavilion
The stars are vast and the exploration is endless. Chinese astronauts have been dreaming for nine days and decades, and finally turned the myth into reality, and the leapfrog development of China's aerospace has amazed the world. From "Dongfang Hong" to "Beidou", from "Tiangong" to "Tianwen", from "Chang'e" to "Jade Rabbit", Chinese astronauts have pinned people's infinite curiosity and vision of the starry sky in these names, driving the continuous progress of exploration steps.
In the past year, China's aerospace has created one world-renowned achievement after another, "Zhu Rong" probed the fire, leaving a trace belonging to China in the distant Mars; "Xihe" achieved a breakthrough of "zero" in China's solar exploration day by day; "Tianhe" traveled to the stars and expanded the homeland to the vast starry sky... Our pace of pursuing the stars has become faster, more stable, and farther. April 24, 2022, is the seventh China Space Day, let us pay tribute to them behind the scenes of "Picking Stars and Collecting the Moon".
As the only state-level economic and technological development zone in China featuring the aerospace industry, in the assessment and evaluation of the comprehensive development level of 219 state-level economic development zones in the country, the scientific and technological innovation indicators of the space base rank fourth in the country and the first in the western region. The space base has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission as a "national civil space industry base", awarded the first batch of "national new industrialization demonstration bases for high-tech transformation and application" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, approved by the State Council as a "national-level Shaanxi Aerospace Economic and Technological Development Zone", and identified by the Ministry of Commerce as a "national professional special service export base (geographic information)", becoming the largest civil aerospace industry development bearing area in the mainland.
Xi'an Space Base Management Committee
As the space base of China's aerospace power city and the birthplace of Beidou innovation, it is now becoming an important pole of the mainland's aerospace industry, and serves the research and development and construction of major projects such as the national Beidou navigation project, lunar exploration project, manned space engineering, high-resolution major special projects, and new generation carrier rocket projects, adding impetus to high-quality development.
The space base has gathered leading units in the industry such as the Sixth Academy of Aerospace, the Xi'an Branch of the Fifth Academy of Aerospace, the Sixteen Institutes of Aerospace Ninth Academy, and the 206 Institutes of Weapons to ensure the smooth implementation of major scientific and technological projects such as the construction of large-scale national space infrastructure, manned spaceflight, and deep space exploration in an all-round way, and to ensure the successful completion of major model tasks represented by Shenzhou 13, Long March 5, Mars exploration, space vehicle on-orbit services, and Mars and asteroid sampling and return. Here has formed a space technology application industrial cluster based on the development direction of aerospace high-end equipment and energy conservation and environmental protection, and created a number of benchmarking enterprises with independent core technology and industry influence represented by aerospace source power and aerospace Huayang, and a number of projects have filled the domestic gap, widely used in petroleum, chemical, coal, electric power, fire protection, machinery, environmental protection, transportation and other national economic fields, and achieved good economic and social benefits.
The development site of the liquid oxygen kerosene engine of the Sixth Academy of Aerospace
In the field of aerospace technology applications, a number of technologies and products from space bases fill the domestic gap and rank among the first-class in China. Taking the Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group as an example, its self-developed and produced high-performance 6 micron ultra-thin lithium battery copper foil complete sets of equipment successfully replaced imports, becoming the first domestic copper foil integrated machine export overseas production suppliers; desulfurization and denitrification and dust removal integrated ultra-low emission device, satellite-type flexographic printing equipment, aerospace multi-process collaborative hazardous waste comprehensive disposal device and other layouts along the "Belt and Road" countries. In addition, Xi'an Aerospace Precision Electromechanical Research Institute relies on inertial guidance technology to achieve the development of high-end intelligent equipment technology and industry, implements intelligent manufacturing upgrade models for many strong enterprises in the industry, and opens the road of transformation and upgrading in the field of aerospace technology applications with informatization and intelligent technology.
In recent years, the space base has taken the initiative and taken the lead in layout, and has gathered more than 40 commercial aerospace enterprises such as Interstellar Glory, Galaxy Aerospace, and Zhongke Tianta, and initiated 108 units around the world to establish the "International Commercial Aerospace Industry Alliance", and the space base is becoming an important source of development for the development of the mainland's commercial space industry.
The space base has first issued the first special policy to systematically support the development of commercial spaceflight in China, increased support from 9 aspects, guided the cultivation of commercial aerospace enterprises with technological innovation and mature products, and supported the landing of a number of scene applications with obvious application demonstration effects. At the same time, we will give full play to the "top advantages" of the commercial aerospace industry chain such as space payloads and carrying power, pull the rapid development of the application system and terminal of the communication, guidance and remote satellite, and integrate with the new generation of information technology, forming a new development pattern of the aerospace industry with a strong civil and commercial atmosphere. China Coal Navigation and Remote Sensing Bureau "China Coal Pilot Navigation and Positioning Service Platform" is the first operation platform in Northwest China that has passed the certification of the Ministry of Communications; the "Beidou Vehicle Terminal" of Novi Beidou Company has become the first Beidou compatible vehicle-mounted product listed in the sequence of the Ministry of Communications in Northwest China; Galaxy Aerospace has successfully launched the first low-orbit broadband communication satellite with a communication capacity of 10 Gbps on the mainland; The Interstellar Glory Hyperbola No. 1 Yaoyi rocket has successfully entered orbit with one stone and two stars, achieving a breakthrough of zero for China's civilian operation carrier rockets...
Under the guidance of the "1+10+13+N" innovation system and the promotion of the "chain length system" work class, the aerospace industry in the space base is forming an overall synergy from the aspects of space layout, resource coordination, and service guarantee, and promoting the continuous development and growth of the aerospace industry chain. The only Xi'an Satellite Measurement and Control Center in the mainland settled in the space base; the first "State Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Engineering" in the mainland was listed in the Xi'an Institute of Surveying and Mapping...
Night view of Xi'an Aerospace Base
With the unremitting pursuit of the "space dream", the space base is moving step by step towards a new journey of building a space power and a world scientific and technological power, and constantly starting from a deeper and farther space. (Contributed by: Xi'an Space Base)