China's smart digital satellite launch center facilitates safe, efficient space missions

China's satellite launch center has used smart and digital technologies to realize accurate task planning, rational resources allocation and real-time risk monitoring, providing a guarantee for the country's safe and efficient space missions. At the digital smart center of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a giant screen, many auxiliary displays and other multimedia equipment clearly show the overall situation of the space missions, the progress of each system, and the allocation of resources.

With the platform, the staff of each system can intuitively track and monitor the progress of the tasks and make decisions, which has greatly improved their work efficiency.

"Through platform management, we can achieve automatic task planning and online work management, which can effectively resolve our current pain points. In addition, it enables our commands at all levels to quickly and accurately know the process of the task and the availability of resources," said Hu Yonggang, who comes from the launch center.

Supported by cutting-edge technologies including big data mining and artificial intelligence, the digital smart center has gained the ability of assisted decision-making and independent planning for command, and can realize scientific resource allocation and command management in the case of multiple launch tasks in parallel. The model of information services is more flexible than ever.

"In the past, we displayed information extensively. But now, we have personalized notification push for different scenarios and different users. What I would like to highlight is the mission live broadcast that we have made every effort to develop. It regularly collects mission information at the launch site and pushes it to commands at all levels in real time, making the mission decision-making more timely and effective," Hu explained.

Regarding the possible safety risks of manually filling rockets on the launch tower, the center has installed a gas concentration monitoring device at the external hose connection in the sealed-off area, making intelligent identification and image monitoring cover all key valve positions.

With inspection along the filling pipe corridor by robots, the digital smart center can monitor risky processes in real time in the background and gradually realize unmanned operation of hazardous tasks, so as to greatly improve the safety of refueling staff.

China's smart digital satellite launch center facilitates safe, efficient space missions

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on Thursday lowered its key interest rates by 100 basis points, or 1 percent, the CBE reported.

The CBE said in a statement that its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to cut the deposit rate to 20 percent, the lending rate to 21 percent, and the rate of the main operation to 20.5 percent, while also reducing the discount rate to 20.5 percent.

"This decision reflects the committee's updated assessment of inflation dynamics and outlook since the previous MPC meeting," it said.

According to an earlier CBE report, annual urban headline inflation in Egypt eased slightly to 12.3 percent in November, down from 12.5 percent in October, driven by a slowdown in food price inflation, which declined to 0.7 percent in November from 1.5 percent a month earlier.

This marks the fifth interest rate cut by Egypt's central bank so far this year.

Egypt cuts key interest rates by 1 pct as inflation slightly down