China's Space Program Thread II

[ZachL111]

If the Mengzhou-1 mission will be a manned test, based on your source, how many crews and who are likely to be selected? P.S. As there will be a short mission description alongside the patch design public contest beginning in this year, we'll soon find out some basic scope of the mission.

Agreed, we will get more information soon.

I went over the readout again, translated it myself, and my source translated it wrong. Sorry if I got hopes up. I didn't really have time to look over a bunch of news today, as I've been busy accumulating myself to a new job, so I asked one of my friends to look over some of the news for me, kind of in tldr format, and he mentioned a manned flight next year, and that it was the Mengzhou mission. I cannot find anything affirming that, aside from the mistranslation he provided me.

 

[ZachL111]

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We got an update on the Sino-Pakistani cooperation in space, from the spokesperson of the CMSA. According to him, a Pakistani astronaut will join the Chinese space station on a short term mission. Pakistan will have a hand in helping to select the candidate/s, and China will then undergo final verification and training of skills. Pakistan will also be able to implement their own experiments as they participate in the mission.

(Also forgot to mention in the astronaut bio post, Wu Fei will be the youngest taikonaut as the time of launch, at 32)

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On a smaller note, the Shenzhou missions, starting with 21, will be delegated to the Mission Command Post, it is a smaller organizational tweak as far as I read into it.

Quoted below:

经研究决定，从神舟二十一号载人飞船发射任务起，飞船发射任务组织实施工作授权任务指挥所具体负责。

Last thing before I sleep:

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China's first ocean salinity measurement satellite has completed testing in orbit, moving into full-time operational service soon.

 

[bsdnf]

Alright so, big news if true, but I want to stress that this is a RUMOR so take this with a massive grain of salt. Also, I have not seen this reported anywhere else, on the Chinese/English web.

The rumor is essentially they have created a new department to oversee commercial launch service providers' activity. Ace is saying that this will cause delays to all future commercial launches, so for the life of me, I hope this is not true. Again, I am not seeing anything to indicate that this is true, I just want to post it in case something happens.

Edit: Nevermind Eric seems to have confirmed it?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1983700213882859861

It's clearly Tianbing's fault...

 

[mossen]

This raises an important point.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1983807319117893900

Basically, the US is almost completely dependent upon a single company whereas China has a growing "space stack" with multiple rockets, some from private companies and some from public entities. Without Falcon 9, China would already dominate space flight.

If LandSpace succeeds then it would overturn the US dominance.

 

[uguduwa]

China plans to have a Pakistan astronaut on short-term missions​

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[ZachL111]

China plans to have a Pakistan astronaut on short-term missions​

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I literally posted this same thing on the page.

 

[uguduwa]

I literally posted this same thing on the page.

Sorry, didn‘t see it. Feel free to delete my post because I can‘t delete or edit.

 

[Michael90]

Alright so, big news if true, but I want to stress that this is a RUMOR so take this with a massive grain of salt. Also, I have not seen this reported anywhere else, on the Chinese/English web.

The rumor is essentially they have created a new department to oversee commercial launch service providers' activity. Ace is saying that this will cause delays to all future commercial launches, so for the life of me, I hope this is not true. Again, I am not seeing anything to indicate that this is true, I just want to post it in case something happens.

Edit: Nevermind Eric seems to have confirmed it?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1983700213882859861

Lol They want to start using the failed over regulation model of the EU? Lol. Well, let's see if this will help make commercial space launches in China more efficient and faster or is it will instead slow down the already delayed launches by private players. Time will tell if it was a good move or not. So let's wait and see.

 

[Maikeru]

Well this may have come on the back of the accidental 1st stage launch by a private player earlier this year. There needs to be some regulation not a complete free for all. Still, the private players can point out that it's government launches dropping hypergolic boosters all over the countryside...

 

[bsdnf]

Well this may have come on the back of the accidental 1st stage launch by a private player earlier this year. There needs to be some regulation not a complete free for all. Still, the private players can point out that it's government launches dropping hypergolic boosters all over the countryside...

Calculating the landing site for a first-stage booster and evacuating in advance are two different matters from building an unreliable testing ground near a populated area, and the test accidentally turning into a launch.