







19th Asian Games to Initiate Digital Ignition Ceremony
The 19th Asian Games will initiate a historical digital ignition ceremony. Over the past three months, more than one million netizens from around the world became digital torchbearers of the Games.
The WFST Begins to Operate
The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) began to operate on September 17. It aims to provide the deepest high-precision, large-area, multicolor photometric and positional catalogs, which can be used for the identification and systematic study of various types of celestial bodies in the universe in the coming decades.
Yaogan-39 Remote Sensing Satellite Launched
Using a Long March -2D carrier rocket, China launched a new remote sensing satellite Yaogan-39 on September 17. This is the 488th mission undertaken by the Long March rocket series.
New Radio Telescope to Support Deep-space Missions
The construction of a 40-meter-aperture radio telescope in Shigatse of southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, was launched officially on September 17, in order to offer technical support for China's lunar and deep-space probe missions in the future.