BEIJING, Nov. 28 --- The design review for the Strategic Pioneer Program’s Ground Support System was performed on Nov. 28, 2012 in National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). More than 40 experts and representatives from a dozen cooperative CAS institutions and other work units attended the review.

The experts unanimously agree that the Ground Support System is a major national science and technology infrastructure designed to receive and process the data from space science satellites, to provide support to the orbiting satellites, and to ensure a successful accomplishment of and the greatest scientific return from the missions conducted by the satellites. They also highly appreciate the design for the Ground Support System and affirm that the design manifests the principle of “unified planning, coordinated construction, and unified management”, and is characteristic of multi-functions, reasonable structures, and better expansibilities.

The evaluation experts are unanimous in approving the design for the Ground Support System and recommend accelerating the implementation of the design to provide support to space science satellite missions by 2014.