Media: China will launch five satellites to study the sun – TASS

BEIJING, June 1st. / Corr. TASS Aleksey Selishchev /. China in the next five years to launch five satellites to study solar activity and joint research with European colleagues. On Wednesday reported the Xinhua News Agency

“The launches will be part of China’s space exploration program of five satellites will be to monitor solar activity and its influence on the Earth.” -. Said the Academy of Sciences of China Wu Ji <. / p>

according to him, the satellites will also be involved in the Sino-European research projects and used to study black holes, as well as experiments on water purification.

China has launched a program of space exploration in October 1956 year, and the first Chinese

Jiuquan launch site was built in 1958 in the lower reaches of Heihe river (north-western Gansu province). In September 1960, with this launch site was made the successful launch of the first rocket of the Soviet manufacture, and has held a successful launch of the first self-developed rocket in November 1960.

, China is expected to create their own space station by 2020, as follows step will be sending man to the moon.