Fifty years ago, the "Dongfanghong-1" artificial earth satellite was successfully launched into the sky. Since then, China has become the fifth country in the world to successfully launch artificial satellites on its own.
The development of China's artificial satellite industry is inseparable from a great scientist. He is one of the pioneers and founders of China's artificial satellite industry, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the winner of the "Two Bombs and One Star" Meritorious Medal Zhao Jiuzhang.
October 15 is the 113th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Zhao Jiuzhang. A video will show you the "father of Chinese satellites."
Mr. Zhao Jiuzhang is an outstanding meteorologist, geophysicist, space physicist and educator in China. He is the pioneer of modern meteorology and space science in China and one of the founders of the artificial satellite business. He is also advocating and developing the earth in China. Pioneer of scientific mathematics physics and new technology.
He used to be the director of the Institute of Geophysics and the Institute of Applied Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the director of the Satellite Design Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the Chinese Meteorological Society, and the chairman of the Chinese Geophysical Society. In 1955, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (academician) , Died in October 1968.
In September 1999, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission posthumously awarded him the Meritorious Medal of "Two Bombs and One Star".
(Video sourced by reporter Sun Zifa, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, edited by Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Sun Jingbo]