Beijeng: China’s first nano-satellite with primary and middle school students involved in the development and building process will be launched into space Friday.

The satellite, named after late Premier Zhou Enlai, was sent from its creation base in Huai’an Youth Comprehensive Development Base in east China’s Jiangsu Province to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China’s Gansu Province, where a “CZ-11” solid fuel rocket is scheduled to put it into orbit Friday.

There are twenty teenagers who participated in the development project accompanied the transport group to the launch center and will witness the lift-off.

Zhang Xiang, chief designer of the satellite, told the satellite specifications:

It is the nano-satellite.

Weighs two kg.

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.

Zhang said that the students had taken their spare time to join the development and ground based simulation performance of the satellite, and had learnt to assemble and practice voice data transfer and telecommunication applications.

The satellite project was approved in 2016. The administration office of Huai’an Youth Comprehensive Development Base is the main organiser of the project. It is aiming to become the largest and most advanced youth aerospace science museum in China The student from the Huai’an Zhou Enlai Red Army Middle School is looking forward to watching the whole launch process Friday. “Watching our satellite lifting off will be so cool that I will probably be moved into tears,” he said.

 

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