China's Space Program News Thread

[SanWenYu]

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Cameras onboard of Tiangong recorded the moment when Shenzhou-13 shuttle was leaving the spacestation for home.

 

[by78]

Unloading and accounting items unloaded from the Shenzhou-13 return capsules. Among the items returned are memory cards containing 8K footage the taikonauts recorded during their stay on the space station.

 

[by78]

The cameras and

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lenses Chinese taikonauts used onboard the space station.

 

[by78]

The International Astronomical Union has approved China's proposal to name 22 martian surface features near the landing site of the Zhurong Mars rover.

 

[escobar]

CALT Automated production line

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1519025164205187072

 

[Blitzo]

The new configuration of the Long March 9 rocket has 26 200-ton LOX/Methane engines for first stage. The diameter of the core stage has been increased to 11m, and the diameter of the fairing has been increased to 10m:

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, or perhaps I've missed it...


But imo most significantly, of the various characteristics described for this CZ-9 model, "可重复" from my view cannot be interpreted as anything else other than "reusable".

Of course it is brief, but it is stated as one of the key traits of the rocket and is the first one listed in the line...

 

[by78]

The Yutou-2 lunar rover has finished two infrared scans of the interesting looking rock nicknamed "dragon's back", which was first discovered a few months ago.

 

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[j17wang]

The cameras and

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lenses Chinese taikonauts used onboard the space station.

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Nice! they are using the kinefinity MAVO Edge 8K.

 

[by78]

CASIC has successfully conducted a 400-second test firing of its Mingfeng-1 (鸣凤-1) LOX/Methane engine. The duration of 400 seconds is about twice as long as the engine is expected to work for a given launch. This latest test followed a previous successful test run of 200 seconds. Note that ExPace is owned by CASIC.