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Dongfang Hour (literally “Eastern Hour”), is a podcast that dives into the fast-evolving Chinese space sector. As the world’s second-largest economy, China is becoming an increasingly important and relevant topic, yet quality information about certain sectors remains difficult to find in Chinese, and is often nonexistent in English.The hosts of Dongfang Hour, Blaine Curcio and Jean Deville, are a consultant/entrepreneur and an aerospace engineer, both based in China. Speaking no less than 5 ...
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In this episode, I am joined by Dongfang Hour co-founder and former co-host Blaine Curcio to explore the rapidly changing landscape of Chinese satellite constellations. We discuss policies, funding, the influence of the US, the role of commercial companies, and the impact on launch. Check out Blaine's newsletter, the China Space Monitor: https://ch…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: 3 Chinese Rocket Concepts for Crewed Spaceflight The growing trend of rideshare launches in Chin…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you hear, please buy us some coffee at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss: A review o…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Tianbing/Space Pioneer: one of China's Quirkiest Launch Companies Launch Takeaways from CASC's 2…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: A Chinese Version of Relativity Space? Takeaways from China's Space White Paper Lunar New Year G…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss: Chinese Launch Start…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss: Could 2022 be the Ye…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss: The Chinese Space St…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you hear, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss: China Tests the Mod…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss: China Confirms Chang…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! In this special episode, we wrap up the year by going over 8 events that marked the Chinese space sector in 2021 (very subjective, of course!). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour In this episode, we discuss the following: Chi…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, support our work at buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour This week, we discuss the following: Failur…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, you can support us at www.buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour :) This week, we discuss: The 2nd Suc…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). If you like what you see, you can support us at our Buy Me a Coffee page 😊 This week, we discuss: A CN startup plans to…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we focus specifically on launch updates from the CCAF (China Commercial Aerospace Forum): Introduction iSpac…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: China betting on sea-based launch services First China-Africa Beidou conference Revisiting the c…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Shenzhou-13 performs a historic spacewalk Commercial launch startup iSpace sets foot in Hainan M…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com) and our website (www.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Introduction Spacety Announces a New Constellation in Collaboration with BUPT Orienspace's New c…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter and our website. This week, we discuss: Mars Express & Zhurong to perform blind data transmission experiments in November China breaks new launch record, passes 40 launches Launch vehicle s…
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Hello and welcome to another interviews series episode on the Dongfang Hour! This is the second part of our interview with Molly Silk, released on October 6. Molly is a doctoral researcher in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Molly's research focuses on topics such as China's space policy, and…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: China tests its most powerful monolithic solid rocket booster (SRB) to date Discussion over last week's FOBS test (fractional orbital b…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! Also do check out our website (www.dongfanghour.com) as well as our Newsletter, where we cover many more stories every week (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Deep Blue Aerospace performs 100m VTVL hop test with Nebula-M rocket Shenzhou 13 docks w…
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Hello and welcome to another interviews series episode of the Dongfang Hour ! In this episode, we were thrilled to sit down with Molly Silk, a doctoral researcher in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Molly's research focuses on topics such as China's space policy, and cultural, communicative a…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: 4 Future Space Projects at Zhuhai Major Launch Contracts at Zhuhai Spacecraft and Models Shown in the Exhibition The Kuaizhou-1A Rocket…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter and Website. This week, we discuss: Tianzhou 3 Docks with the Chinese Space Station The Hainan Space Cluster CGTN Space Documentary Space Pioneer's New Round of Funding Thank you for your k…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter. This week, we discuss: The Shenzhou 12 crew de-orbits and returns safely to Earth Major launch update including Space Transportation and Orienspace More news on China's Mars UAV Thank you …
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Chinese smartphones and satellite connectivity Recap on provincial space policies Two launches for China's space program Thank you for …
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Hello and welcome to another episode (n°50!) of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Taiwanese rocket company TiSPACE gets launch authorization from Australian authorities China is working on a Mars UAV Updates o…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: A turbulent week in US-China space relations 2 launches in a week China’s Natural Science Foundation publishes the “Guidelines for the …
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: The growth of Chinese launch companies measured in 2019-2020 workforce increase Spacety and T4i Announce Collaboration The second space…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). Also, many of the links mentioned in the episode are available there. This week, we discuss: A Chinese New Shepard? CAS Space eyes space tourism Chinese start…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover many more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Space Transportation Completes RMB300M Series A round of funding, reveals more info on hypersonic vehicle roadmap Further hints that Ch…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: Chinese SAR Wars begin iSpace fails third launch of the solid-fueled Hyperbola-1 rocket Deep Blue Aerospace completes first hop, Expac…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: 1) iSpace's asymmetrical Hyperbola-3A medium-lift rocket 2) First 5G network and LEO broadband satellite integration test performed in…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: China officially kicks off the construction of the country's first space-based solar power industry base in Chongqing Chinese Earth ob…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: China Launches Mysterious Suborbital Spaceplane First Lunar Samples Handed Out to Research Institutes Static Fire Test of Deep Blue Ae…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: China’s 1st EVA with Tianhe (and 2nd ever Chinese EVA) A Plethora of launches in a Single Week Guangzhou & Tianjin Add Satellite Inter…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). This week, we discuss: 1) China's Zhurong Mars Rover Sends Back Additional Footage 2) LandSpace Completes the First Phase of the Its Small and Medium Rocket …
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in the DFH Newsletter (getrevue.co/profile/dongfanghour). This week, we discuss: Massive Design Changes for China’s Super Heavy Rocket the Long March 9 (Long Lehao Presentation at the University of Hon…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! This week, we will only cover two stories in more detail, because they are both pretty beastly stories. A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in the DFH Newsletter (getrevue.co/profile/dongfanghour)! The topics of the week are: Shenzhou-12…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 7 - 13 June: iSpace unveils details on the Hyperbola-3, which is officially validated and moved to the R&D phase Emergence Dongfang Space (“Ospace”), yet another launch company Additional Pictures from Tianw…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Below are the news updates from the week of 31 May - 6 June: Launch of Fengyun-4B Meteorology Satellite Space Pioneer completes a full system hot test of Tianhuo-11 engine CAS Space Begins R&D on the ZK-2 Medium Lift Solid-Fueled Launch Vehicle More details unv…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 24 - 30 May: 1) Launch of Tianzhou-2 Cargo Mission 2) China’s Efforts to ensure a successful deployment of Zhurong on the Martian ground 3) Euroconsult Webinar Takeaways Do remember to check out also our wee…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, please find below the news update from the week of 17 - 23 May: 1) Another Fruitful Week for China’s Space Exploration Program 2) Completion of first batch of tests for the Tianhe Module 3) SASTIND Publishes New Regulations on Smallsat Manu…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 10 - 16 May: 1) Chinese Tianwen-1 Mars Missions attempts Atmospheric Entry and Landing of the Zhurong Rover 2) Chinese Launch Company Galactic Energy signs Collaboration Agreement with China Huateng Group to…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 3 - 9 May. 1) China’s Long March 5B first stage re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and (seemingly) lands in the Indian Ocean 10 days or so ago, China launched a Long March 5B rocket to put into orbit the core modu…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 26 April - 2 May. 1) Chinese Space Station: launch of the core Module Tianhe on-board Launch March 5B On April 29 2021, China successfully sent the first module of the Chinese Space Station into orbit. The m…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 19 - 25 April. 1) The 6th China Space Day took place in Nanjing on Saturday April 24 Happy China Space Day everyone! This Saturday, China kicked off its 6th China Space Day, an annual celebration promoting C…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 12 - 18 April. 1) CASIC Institute tests spaceplane propulsion technology This week we saw an article published by the S&T Daily on a CASIC institute completing a precooling technology validation test, which …
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! Without further ado, the news update from the week of 5 - 11 April. 1)TCL: A New Tech Player in the Chinese Space Industry? This week, we have seen signs hinting that TCL, a Chinese consumer electronics giant, is preparing to invest in the space industry. Last …
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