Ground Breaking Ceremony of NSSC New Campus Held
“The new campus in Huairou, as the base of National Space Science Center in the near future, will provide pivotal support to the Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science” said WU Ji, Director of National Space Science Center, on the Ground Breaking Ceremony of NSSC new campus in Huairou on May 5, 2012.
About 500 staff members and invited guests witnessed this important moment in the history of NSSC. The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), Quantum Science Experimental Satellite, Dark Mater Particle Detection Satellite, SHIJIAN-10 Retrievable Scientific Experimental Satellite and three satellites of Kuafu Project, which are included in Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science, will be tested and operated at the new campus. There are six or seven new space science satellite programs which are going to be reviewed and established at the new campus. The design and testing of equipments for future manned space lab and space station, Chang’E project, and a large number of payloads for application satellites will be executed gradually in this new campus. The international participation in the satellite missions in question is important.
The new campus covers about 8.7 hectares, and its first phase construction will be completed in June 2014. The experimental facilities as well as the operation and control facilities will be installed and subsequent commissioning will be conducted after the first phase construction. The distance between the current location of NSSC and the new campus is about 70 km, while the distance between the new campus and Beijing Capital International Airport is about 30 km.
