Ye Peijian, born in 1945, is chief commander and chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program and a protege of the late Yang Jiachi, a Harvard-educated aerospace engineer who developed China’s first satellites. After graduating from Zhejiang...
...University, Ye began his career in satellites like his mentor, but on Yang’s advice, chose to continue his education in Europe rather than the United States to avoid restrictions on sensitive majors. Ye received his doctorate from U
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