Key laboratory passes assessment

China's key laboratory of spaceflight dynamic technology passed the test running assessment in Beijing days ago, which marks that China has initially established a technologically advanced spaceflight dynamics technology research system.

The key laboratory of spaceflight dynamics technology gives an important support to the pre-research of China's manned spaceflight and deep space exploration flight control technologies, and has become an important talent incubator in the field of spaceflight dynamics research.

Jointly approved by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the General Armaments Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on December 13, 2010, the key laboratory of spaceflight dynamics technology was inaugurated on Mar. 29, 2011. The laboratory is jointly run by the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) and the Northwestern Poly-technical University (NPU).

According to Tang Geshi, director of the laboratory, since its trial running, the laboratory has focused on the research on spaceflight orbit determination and analysis, deep space exploration orbit monitor and control and spaceflight planning and control. Up to now, breakthroughs have been made in the above three research fields.