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For the first time in the Year of the Dragon! Succeed!
At 19:30 on February 23, China Aerospace ushered in the first flight of the Year of the Dragon at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. The Long March 5 carrier rocket successfully launched the communication technology test satellite 11 into the scheduled orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success.
The Chang-5 rocket was launched (photo by Sun Handong).
The Communication Technology Test Satellite No. 11 was developed by the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and is mainly used to carry out multi-band, high-speed satellite communication technology verification.
The Long March 5 carrier rocket is a two-stage and a half-state liquid launch vehicle independently developed by China, with a take-off mass of about 877 tons and a take-off thrust of about 1,068 tons, which is the rocket with the largest carrying capacity in China. This launch is only 70 days away from the last launch of the Chang-5 rocket.
This mission is the 7th launch of the Long March 5 launch vehicle and the 509th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles.
After more than 50 years, a US spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time
The spacecraft built and flown by the Texas-based "Intuition Machine" company landed near the south pole of the moon on the 22nd, which was the first controlled landing on the lunar surface by the United States in more than half a century, and the first moon landing achieved entirely by the private sector in history.
The six-legged robotic lander, nicknamed Odysseus, landed at around 6:23 p.m. ET, Intuitive Machines and NASA commentators said during a joint livestream at the company's Mission Operations Center in Houston.
The lander "Odysseus" separated from the rocket and headed for the moon (NASA).
After Odysseus landed near the moon's south pole, the company Intuition Machine initially posted a photo of the lander standing upright on social media. But Steve Altemus, the company's chief executive, told reporters Friday that it was based on a misinterpretation of the data. In fact, "Odysseus" was damaged on one of its six legs during landing, and the lander rolled over and leaned sideways against the rock.
Rollover demo. Artemus said that despite this,All indications indicate that "Odysseus" is "in a stable condition" at the intended landing site"We did communicate with the lander," and mission control operators were sending commands to the lander, who were working to get the first images of the lunar surface from the landing site.
The F-16 dropped a fuel tank in flight
On February 22, local time, an F-16 fighter jet of the US military stationed in South Korea was flying over the vicinity of Gunsan Saemangeum, Jeollabuk-do, when the fuel tank suddenly dropped.
According to the 8th Combat Flight Regiment of the US Air Force, an F-16 fighter jet that took off from the Gunsan base had an emergency that day, and two fuel tanks crashed into the western sea near Saemangeum. But the fighters returned safely to the base, and there were no personnel**.
F-16 fighter data map (**Yonhap News Agency) This is the second accident of the US military F-16 fighter jet stationed in South Korea this year. On 31 January this year, an F-16 fighter jet, also belonging to the 8th Combat Flight Regiment of the US Air Force, crashed into the sea, and the pilot escaped safely. 
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Nearly 100 employees of two major Japanese airlines cheated on exams
According to reports from the Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun and NHK, ANA announced on the 20th that between August 2022 and February 2024, a total of 82 employees of its two subsidiaries cheated on exams and were suspected of flipping through textbooks in the process of answering questions.
ANA Holdings said: "We apologize for the incident of violating safety rules. We will work to prevent such incidents from happening again and restore trust. ”
On the same day, Japan Airlines also issued a statement saying that 16 employees of its two subsidiaries were suspected of cheating in the same exam and referring to textbooks in the process of answering questions. The company has confiscated the driver's licenses of the people involved and handed them over to the authorities and stopped the online test.
"We believe that this behavior violates compliance and is a serious act that may impede safe flight operations, and we will work to prevent this from happening again," Japan Airlines said. We sincerely apologize. ”
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan, driving a vehicle at an airport must first obtain permission from the airport administrator and must pass a test of knowledge of traffic rules.
NATO violated airspace, Belarus responded
CCTV news client report with pictures.
On the 22nd local time, all Russian TV and radio companies broadcast an interview with Belarusian Defense Minister Khlenin. In the interview, Khlenin said that the number of NATO flights on the Belarusian border has increased, and since August last year alone, six violations of white-collar airspace have been recorded.
Khlenin emphasizedBelarus is by no means polite to foreign violations of its airspace and responds to all violations. If necessary, the White Fighters will be lifted into the air, and the anti-aircraft missile forces will also reach the corresponding state of combat readiness. "If their brakes fail completely, of course we will shoot them down".
Khlenin also said that Ukraine had assembled a group in the Ukrainian-Belarusian border area by 1120,000 to 11A commando force of 40,000 people, but at the moment Belarus does not need to build up troops on the border with Ukraine.
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