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Jiuquan Founded in 1958 in Gansu Province, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center was the country's earliest base and where most launches and tests have been conducted. Jiuquan, a small town on north China's deserts, caught worldwide attention in 1970 when China launched its first satellite, and has since developed into a space city with a population of dozens of thousands. The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which was built up in 1958,is the only site to project manned vehicles in the country. www.china.org.cn /english/features/cslc/140043.htm   (532 words)

Jiuquan | Slovak | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon Jiuquan (酒泉) is a city with several hundred thousand inhabitants in the western part of the Gansu province in China. Jiuquan (酒泉市) ist eine bezirksfreie Stadt in der Volksrepublik China. Jiuquan erstreckt sich über den gesamten Westzipfel der chinesischen Provinz Gansu, mit Ausnahme des Verwaltungsgebiets der Stadt Jiayuguan. www.babylon.com /definition/Jiuquan/Slovak   (153 words)

RedOrbit NEWS | China Showcases Space Program to the World JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity. Located on a sprawling 2,000 square miles, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is an island of technological achievement in one of the country's poorest regions. Jiuquan emerges as a heavily irrigated oasis of greenery amid the spartan Gobi Desert, with lush lawns and shady trees. www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=83155   (850 words)

Chinese celebrate second space launch - World - smh.com.au While Jiuquan's young seemed commandeered to express their patriotism as loudly as possible, private reactions among the grown-ups ranged from pride to indifference and ignorance. Jiuquan has developed rapidly in recent years, helped partly by tourism, but it still carries a decidedly provincial air, and is years behind a developed metropolis like Shanghai or Beijing. The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre traces its origins back to the dark days of the Cold War, when it was the site of Chinese research into ballistic missile technology. www.smh.com.au /news/world/chinese-celebrate-second-space-launch/2005/10/12/1128796580370.html   (594 words)

Jiuquan Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, situated at 100 degrees East, 41 degrees North, is located in the Jiuquan Region, Gansu province, north-western China. Jiuquan’s facilities provided support for every phase of a satellite launch campaign. Jiuquan was originally used to launch scientific and recoverable satellites into medium or low earth orbits at high inclinations. www.astronautix.com /sites/jiuquan.htm   (4079 words)

Jiuquan Will Be Gateway For Chinese Manned Flights The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) has been chosen as the gateway for China's yuhangyuan (astronaut), to reach orbit in the coming years, the China News Service reported Tuesday. Zhang Jianqi, Assistant Director of JSLC which is in the northwestern province of Gansu, told the news service that the centre would lead in launching yuhangyuan into space. The China Press, a Chinese language newspaper published in New York, said last Thursday (16th) that as a result of the recent visit of Vice-premier Ilya Klebanov in Beijing, Russia offered to assist China in developing its own space station, while also welcoming Chinese financing to support Mir operation. www.spacedaily.com /news/china-00r.html   (263 words)

China Aims High With Mars Mission Unauthorized personnel are not permitted to enter the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, but from the perimeter one can see the massive steel tower that supports the country's "Long March" rockets. The beehive models of laboratories and housing on Mars differ from the air-conditioned concrete towers at Jiuquan only in that gravity as well as temperature must be controlled and oxygen imported or manufactured. The dry riverbeds and fl-green rock outcrops at Jiuquan are interspersed with inkblot patches of cultivated land won back from the desert to feed a transplanted population of scientists. www.rense.com /general28/caal.htm   (849 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) () is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) in the Gobi desert, Ejina Banner (额济纳旗), Alashan League (阿拉嗄盟), Inner Mongolia, located about 1,600 km from Beijing. It is named as such since Jiuquan is the nearest urban centre, although Jiuquan is in the nearby province of Gansu. The facilities and launch support equipment were likely modelled on Soviet counterparts and the Soviet Union, at least in the early 1960s, may have provided technical support to Jiuquan. www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center   (262 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Jiuquan is a world-renowned city because of Jiuquan satellite launching center and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. Jiuquan wins the most popular famous city in my favorite famous city in west competition organized by CCTV recently. Jiuquan is also the largest seed-making base of foreign trade. www.jqzsw.com /jqsq/index-en.htm   (361 words)

SPACE.com -- China Showcases Space Program It was the first time China let foreign journalists enter, although officials forbade photographs of the command-and-control center with its rows of computer screens or the mammoth assembly hall where workers built the spacecraft that lifted China's first astronaut into orbit last October. For the secrecy-conscious national government, Jiuquan houses treasures to be guarded closely. Located on a sprawling 1,900 square miles, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is an island of technological achievement in one of the country's poorest regions. www.space.com /missionlaunches/china_update_040901.html   (520 words)

Space Today Online - Spaceports Around the World - China The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1958, was China's first spaceport. The launch center is north of Jiuquan City in Gansu Province in the Gobi desert 1,000 miles west of Beijing, in Inner Mongolia. Jiuquan is a huge base at nearly 1,100 square miles. www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/Spaceports/China.html   (1135 words)

Jiuquan - Gansu Province travel guide - China travel guide, Gansu China travel services, Gansu tours Jiuquan, or wine spring, is lacated in the western part of Hexi corridor. Due to its strategic position and historical significance, there are many attractive relics in Jiuquan such as Bell and Drum Tower, Jiuquan Park and Jiuquan Arts and Crafts Plants for producing the jade cups. Jiuquan Park has a history of ever 2000 years, famous for an old spring and its interesting story. www.chinaplanner.com /gansu/gsu_jiqu.htm   (223 words)

Shen zhou Ⅴ 　　Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is the cradle of China's spaceflight and China's biggest spaceflight launch base. 　　Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is located near the Ruo River in the Badanjilin Desert in Northwest China. China spent half a century in building the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center into a modern space town, which now has come unto the stage of the world. english.chinamil.com.cn /special/sz/background/26.htm   (543 words)

Chinese Defence Today - Jiuqaun Satellite Launch Centre (Base 20) Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre (JSLC) (see satellite image) is the Chinese space launch facility located in the Gobi desert, about 210km southeast of Jiuquan City. Although the launch centre was named “Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre”, it is actually located in Alxa league (region) of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The launch centre is some 210km northeast to Jiuquan, a medium-size city (910,000 population) in Gansu Province. www.sinodefence.com /strategic/facility/jslc.asp   (1481 words)

Jiuquan-Silk Road City Guide Jiuquan, or Wine Spring,is a major stopover on the "Silk Road" northwestwards from Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province. In a tomb chamber at Dingjiazha, Jiuquan, are some of the country's earliest murals, dating back to the East Jin Dynasty (317-430 A. China's first launch center, also known as Shuang Cheng Tzu. The climate in Jiuquan is both temperate and dry, distinguished by large temperature discrepancies between one season and the next. www.silk-road-china.com /jiuquan.htm   (948 words)

Spacepage - Ontdek het heelal - Jiuquan: China's grootste lanceerbasis Dit was de eerste lanceerbasis van China en is vandaag de dag uitgegroeid tot een modern complex voor het lanceren van allerlei soorten satellieten. Van de drie lanceerbasissen die China telt is Jiuquan ongetwijfeld de grootste en meest gebruikte, op het gebied zelf bevinden zich meer dan 200 gebouwen. Jiuquan Space Center wordt vaak vergeleken als het Cape Canaveral van China, maar het is ongetwijfeld ook één van de meest geheime en geisoleerde lanceercomplexen ter wereld. www.spacepage.be /content/view/483/39   (803 words)

China's Secret Cape Canaveral A Sprawling City Of 15,000 Jiuquan is where China is expected to launch its second manned spacecraft, Shenzhou VI, on a five-day mission in the second half of next year. First to come into view is the 105-meter (346-foot) launch tower, Jiuquan's most recognizable feature known to some one billion Chinese who were glued to their television sets during last year's launch. Jiuquan is so secret that even the people formally in charge, the leaders of Gansu province, have little control over what happens, and just as little information. www.spacedaily.com /news/china-04zze.html   (1100 words)

Jiuquan - Chinese Space Facilities The East Wind launch facility (sometimes referred to in the West as Shuang Cheng-Tzu) is located near Jiuquan, at the southern edge of the Gobi Desert in Kansu Province. In April 1970, the DFH-1 satellite was successfully launched aboard the Long March-1 rocket, an improved version of the DF-3 (CSS-2), making China the fifth nation to put a satellite into space, after the Soviet Union, the US, France and Japan. The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is used for low altitude posigrade missions with inclinations of 40 degrees or more. www.fas.org /spp/guide/china/facility/jiuquan.htm   (560 words)

Jiuquan, Gansu, China Tour From the second century B.C., commissioners and high-ranking officers were dispatched by the rulers of Western Han Dynasty (306 B.C.- 34 A.D.) to develop the region. As the traffic along the "Silk Road" became busier and more important, the prefecture of Jiuquan was established more than 1,600 years ago to protect this vital artery. In a tomb chamber at Dingjiazha, Jiuquan, are some of the country's earliest murals, dating back to the East Jin Dynasty (317-430 A. Country Information www.chinatour.com /attraction/jiuquan.htm   (431 words)

SPACE.com -- Shenzhou 6 Away! China Launches Two Astronauts in Second Manned Spaceflight China launches its second manned spacecraft Shenzhou-6 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province at 9:00 a.m. Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong, left, and Nie Haisheng wave before they walk to the launch tower at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005. EDT (0100 Oct. 12 GMT) as their 19-story Long March 2F rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, state media reported. www.space.com /missionlaunches/051011_china_shenzhou6_lnch.html   (1082 words)

Jiuquan hotels and accommodation, hotel reservations in Gansu, by all-hotels.com Jiuquan hotels and accommodation, hotel reservations in Gansu, by all-hotels.com Jiuquan International Hotel is a five-star business hotel in the city center of Jiuquan. Jiuquan Hotel is a 3-star member hotel of World Travelers Network(http://www.hotel-mall.com), which is built in 1997 and occupying... www.all-hotels.com /east_asia/china/gansu/jiuquan_e1.htm   (445 words)

La bienvenue de déplacement de réseau de Jiuquan vous ! Voyages de Jiuquan, déplacement de Dunhuang En monde unique, travail manuel glorieux historique de tradition--Le winecup lumineux, produit dans Jiuquan, renommé ici et ailleurs.L'histoire lumineuse de fabrication de winecup de Jiuquan est glorieuse, prise Chilienshan Baiyu, jade noir, jade d'iris et jaspe en tant que matière première...... Le Jiuquan - ville de l'astronautique en première excursion Des hommes d'affaires de Jiuquan sont invités à ouvrir le réseau de compagnies www.worldlingo.com /wl/translate/zh/computer_translation.html?wl_lp=ZH_CN-fr&wl_fl=2&wl_rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jqta.com/&wl_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jqta.com/&wl_g_table=-3   (438 words)

List of Hotels in Jiuquan: Compare Hotels in Jiuquan, China - Hotel Rates and Ratings - SideStep Use SideStep.com to find Jiuquan hotel discounts, Jiuquan hotel deals and Jiuquan hotel offers. Compare Jiuquan hotel rates at major hotels including Hilton, Sheraton and Best Western. Compare Jiuquan hotel rates and availability across dozens of sites on the internet, or call Hotels.com at 1-800-617-2640. www.sidestep.com /hotels-list-l1250927-jiuquan_hotels_china   (237 words)

Jiuquan Hotel - Jiuquan, China Rates and Reviews - SideStep Jiuquan Hotel - Jiuquan, China Rates and Reviews JIUQUAN HOTEL IS A 3 STAR MEMBER HOTEL OF WORLDTRAVELERS NETWORKHTTP / / WWW.HOTEL MALL.COM,WHICH IS BUILT IN 1997 AND OCCUPYING OVER 41,504SQUARE METERS. THELOCATION OF THE HOTEL IS PRIME WHERE IS IN THEFLOURISHING COMMERCIAL CENTER JIEFANG ROAD, WESTTO JIAYUGUAN, EAST TO JINZHANGYE, NORTH TOHANGTIAN CITY AND SOUTH TO QILIAN MOUNTAIN. www.sidestep.com /hotels-rates-h158037-jiuquan_hotel_jiuquan_china   (233 words)

Album: September.2006 - Jiuquan, Gansu, China The ImageStation service is closing on Feb. 1st, 2008. Silk Road Trip (Night Light Cups (YeGuang Bei), Jiuquan City Centre, Jiuquan Park) Last Updated: November 4, 2006 at 12:56 pm www.imagestation.com /album/pictures.html?id=2099876257   (30 words)

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