No "tpy" station
pp. 6-8 · Read in the full issue
I am angered by the article by Michael Field, which made the non sense about the Chinese Tracking Sta-
Continued on page 8
From page 6
tion in Tarawa on July Issue of PIM. If you are a responsible editor, please carry my following statement on your respectable monthly, so as to give me a chance to tell the truth. The Chinese government and the government of Kiribati signed an agreement in 1996, through friendly consultation, on estab lishment of a China Space Tracking Telemetry and Command Station known as TT&C Station.
The TT&C Station is used for launch support for synchronous com munication satellite and launch vehicles in China, entirely for peaceful purpose and will not at any time be used for mil itary purpose. The equipment used in the Station is international standard for space tracking telemetry and command, and the installation in the Station is totally open to the public, as it has been the case.
We welcome foreign friends and technical experts to visit the Station, and foreign technical personnel can be employed to work in the Station.
However, Field ignored the facts and fabricated with his imagination that China’s TT&C Station is a “spy” sta tion, even after he had visited the Sta tion himself. He did this entirely to serve his ulterior motives, and it also shows his ignorance and lack of com
mon knowledge.
Yang Zhikuan,
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Kiribati