AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE

MENG ZHIZHONG

Mr.Meng Zhizhong was born in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, in December 1934. In 1956, he graduated from South China Institute of Engineering. In the period from 1960 to 1968, he worked as assistant researcher in Institute of Automation，Chinese Academy of Sciences. During the period between 1958 and 1960, He went to the Institute of Automatic and Remote Control, Soviet Union Academy of Science, for on-job training. From 1968 to 1969, he was the director of Computer System Department at the Satellite Telemetry and Telecontrol Base. From 1970 to 1982, he was appointed as the deputy leader and chief engineer of Shanghai Huayin factory (which is a satellite assembling factory). From 1982 to 1993, he was elected  the director of No.509 Institute subordinated to the Ministry of Astronautics Industry, the chief designer of satellite and the researcher. In 1993, he was assigned as the deputy director of Science & Technology Committee of SAST (Shanghai Academy of Space flight Technology). In 1997, he was conferred by the Russian Academy of Navigation on the title of “Foreign Academician."
Mr. Meng is a scientist specialized in satellite engineering. His great achievements are as follows:
In 1960s, he accomplished the project approachment and designing work of the computer system for “Dongfanghong-1"satellite's ground telemetry and telecontrol center and network. Moreover, He was responsible for developing the “Changkong-1" Technical Experiment Satellite, which had been successfully launched for 3 times. In 1980s, he was in charge of the development of “Fengyun-1"A and B Polar Orbiting Meteorology Satellites, which were both successfully launched. He has successfully developed the fully digital 3-axis-stablized attitude control system and the folded solar array, which is the first time in China. In 1988, the satellite was successfully launched. Since then, China has her self-developed Meteorology Satellite C and D. He contributed to the innovation of Remote Sensing Technology, i.e. the number of detecting channels is raised to 10,which reaches the advance level in the world. Besides, he successfully developed the satellite-carried computer with the capability of self-trouble-diagnosis and the capability of system reorganization. Thus, he resolved the problem of Polar Orbiting Meteorology Satellite's life expansion and raised China's satellite technology and reliability onto an advanced level.  The Fengyun-2C satellite was awarded the “First Prize by the State." In August 2000, Fengyun-1C, the first satellite in China, was selected as a member of Global Meteorology Satellite Series by World Meteorology Organization.