China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS) , a major national S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed that it successfully received data from the newly-launched GF-5 (02) hyperspectral Earth observation satellite on September 11, 2021.

Big Earth Data has published a special issue on Big Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals to celebrate the launch of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS).

The second conference on remote sensing of vegetation pests and diseases was held online on August 28, 2021. The two-day event was attended by government officials, experts, scholars, and industry representatives, bringing more than 60,000 online visits.

An experiment was carried out in Zhoushan adjacent sea area of East China Sea on August 16-19 to test the "Smart Ocean" emergency communication network through a shipboard tethered balloon platform developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

From July 23 to August 4, the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) led a joint experiment in northwest of China to valid the domestic satellite data, specifically its application in the field of agriculture and desert ecology.

Responding to requests from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), ChinaGEO Secretariat activated its Disaster Data Response (CDDR) Mechanism to provide high-resolution satellite imagery in support of disaster response.