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China steps up research on 'space mining' technologies

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said on Thursday that it plans to ramp up research into space resource development, with a focus on technologies for surveying and extracting materials from minor planets. Also in this newsletter: Chinese scientists carried out a business-oriented application experiment in satellite-to-ground laser communications, achieving data rates exceeding 100 Gbps and a peak transmission speed of 120 Gbps. Meanwhile, China on Monday unveiled its new School of Space Exploration, designed to train the next generation of the nation's space pioneers.

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