Ye Peijian

Ye Peijian ( Chinese  葉培 建  /  叶培 建 , Pinyin Yè Péijiàn ), born January 1945 in Haichao, Jiangsu , is a Chinese engineer. He was the chief designer of the first Chinese lunar probes , for which he was awarded the national honorary title "Scientist of the People" (人民 科学家) by President Xi Jinping on September 17, 2019, following a corresponding decision by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress . Ye Peijian has been a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2003 .

Childhood and youth

Ye Peijian's parents were both soldiers from the CCP Central China Field Army (华中 野战军). It was in January 1945 in the village Haichao (海潮村) the greater community Huzhuang (胡庄镇) of the then circle Taixing in the province of Jiangsu born. As the unity of his parents in July 1946. as part of "Operation Zentraljiangsu" (苏中战役) advancing to the north, the little boy was with his maternal grandmother in the village Lixiuhe (李秀河村) of the municipality Yuxiu (毓秀乡, today community Gensi / 根 思乡) from Taixing given into care.

From 1951 Ye Peijian attended Lixiuhe Elementary School. When his father came home from the Korean War a year later , he began to live with him in the barracks, first in Nanjing , then in Hangzhou and finally in Huzhou , Zhejiang Province . His father's frequent transfers did not negatively affect his academic performance. He was never good at sport, but it only took him two years to master the material of the lower level of high school (), which usually lasts three years. The school administration then sent him straight to Huzhou High School, where he graduated from high school in 1962.

Starts as an engineer in communications engineering

Ye Peijian actually wanted to work in the foreign service , but his father said that China was just under construction and needed engineers. Since Ye Peijian interested in airplanes, he applied then in Beihang University and the University of Aerospace Nanjing , but was then at the end of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou assumed where he Telecommunications studied and 1967 graduated as a graduate engineer. A year later - the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966 - he was assigned to the 529th Factory of the Seventh Ministry of Mechanical Engineering , where the final assembly of China's first satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, took place. Until 1978 he worked there in the testing and calibration of digital measuring devices.

promotion

In 1978, under the influence of the reform and opening-up policy , Ye felt the need to continue studying. After passing the entrance exam, he was accepted as a postgraduate student at Research Institute 502 (Control Systems and Propulsion Technology) of the Chinese Academy of Space Technology in Beijing . After he was able to prove his knowledge of foreign languages, he received a scholarship for Switzerland in 1980, where he enrolled at the Faculté des Sciences of the University of Neuchâtel and studied as a doctoral candidate at the Institut de Microtechnique ( affiliated with the ETH Lausanne since January 1, 2009 ). In 1985 Ye Peijian received his doctorate with a thesis on "Automatic online recognition of handwritten Chinese texts by computers".

Promotion to head of research and chief engineer

In August 1985, Ye Peijian returned to China and began working again at Research Institute 502. A year later, he joined the Chinese Communist Party - like his father who died in the Cultural Revolution . At the 502 Research Institute, Ye was initially involved in the development of an infrared measuring device for identifying heated wagon axles, which the stations of the Chinese State Railways were equipped with, which generated high revenues for the Academy for Space Technology . Soon, Ye Peijian rose to head of Research Institute 502, then in 1989 to chief engineer of the data processing department at the headquarters.

Development of the Ziyuan-2 satellite and the Chang'e program

In 1995, he was involved in the development of the VAST satellite communications system for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as the technical director , which generated large revenues for the company. After that, as chief designer of the Ziyuan-2 (中国 资源 二号 卫星) earth observation satellites, he was only occupied with space travel. The first of these satellites, which transmit measurement data to the ground station in real time, was launched on September 1, 2000, the second on October 27, 2002 and the third on November 6, 2004.

In 2004, China's first lunar probe, Chang'e-1, was constructed on the basis of the Ziyuan satellites . The important systems, high-resolution CCD cameras etc. were all taken over from Ziyuan-2 and its predecessor Ziyuan-1 . Of course, deep-space probes were far more challenging than a satellite in orbit, especially when it came to long-range communications, but with his old team, Ye could handle any difficulties. Chang'e-1 and Chang'e-2 were still based on the proven DFH-3 bus from the Chinese Academy of Space Technology . Chang'e-3 and its sister probe Chang'e-4 , on the other hand, were completely new developments, as was the return probe Chang'e-5 , which, with its combination of orbiter, return capsule descending with atmospheric braking and parachute, and a lander that maneuvers autonomously on an engine, forms the basis for the Mars probe Yinghuo-2 .

When the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, often abbreviated to "CAST" because of the English name China Academy of Space Technology , officially launched Chang'e-4 (a fundamentally revised version of Chang'e that has been adapted to new payloads in April 2016) 3) and Yinghuo-2 began, Ye Peijian, now 71 years old, handed over the post of chief designer to his longtime deputy Sun Zezhou . However, he is still employed by CAST and is now the chief scientist for space science and deep space exploration. In addition, Ye Peijian works as a science councilor with the rank of professor (研究员) for the Harbin Polytechnic University , the Beijing Aerospace University and the Xiamen University as a doctoral supervisor. At the University of Aerospace Nanjing he's since May 16, 2019 Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

On January 12, 2017, the main belt asteroid 456677 , also known as 2007 RM119, was named after him. From March 2008 to March 2018, Ye Peijian was a member of the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese People , albeit not for the CPCH, which at the time only had 99 of 2,237 members of this class, but for the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (中国科学技术协会, Pinyin Zhōngguó Kēxué Jìshù Xiéhuì ), an umbrella organization for currently (2019) 211 scientific-technical organizations, from the Chinese Mathematicians Association (中国 数学 会) to the Association of Chinese Mechanical Engineers (中国 机械 工程 学会) to the Chinese Plant Protection Association (中国 植物 保护学会).

Projects managed as chief designer

• Ziyuan 2
• Chang'e-1
• Chang'e-2
• Chang'e-3
• Chang'e 5-T1

Individual evidence

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19. ↑ 全景 科协. In: cast.org.cn. Retrieved July 7, 2019 (Chinese). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ye is the family name here, Peijian is the first name.