中国卫星的发展及应用

总结了我国卫星的发展道路。指出20年来我国卫星的发展主攻方向是应用卫星,主要目标是高中低三类轨道的通信、遥感和科学实验卫星,发展的步骤采取了步数少、步距大、起点高的途径,发展方针是依靠自力更生和全国大协作。文章扼要介绍了自80年代我国卫星转入应用后的情况,已在教育、广播、通信、资源、测绘、气象、科学研究和国防建设等领域应用并作出了巨大贡献。文章最后指出了我国90年代卫星应用的光明前景。

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF CHINESE SATELLITES

This paper summarizes the way along which Chinese satelliteshave been developed,and shows that the main kinds of satellites which weredeveloped over the past twenty years in China are the application satellites.The main objectives are the satellites,such as communications,remote sen-sing and scientific experiment satellites in earth orbits at different height.The number of China's satellites was not large,but the step of developingwas large,and satellites and ground support facilities have been developedthrough self-reliance.In the meantime,the article presents the applications of Chinese satellitesin education,broadcasting,communications,natural resources,mapping,meteorology,scientific experiment,national defence and etc.In the end of this paper,the development prospect of chinese satelliteapplication in the 1990's is pointed out.