China's Space Program News Thread

[iantsai]

China launched Tianzhou-4 cargo ship by CZ-7/Y5 rocket. The rocket lifted off at 01:56 UTC+8, May 10, 2022.

At 02:07 the second stage separated, and the solar panels expanded at about 770s after the rocket ignition.

It's the 420th launch of CZ series rocket.

Glad to see you at the CSS, Tianzhou-4!

 

[iantsai]

Now Tianzhou-3 cargo ship is docking to the fwd port of Tiangong Space Station.

Tianzhou-4 will dock to the aft port within hours by the automatic rendezvous and docking procedure of the cargoship.

Wenchang Command Center declared the victory of the Tianzhou-4 launch mission just now.

 

[by78]

High-resolutio images of Tianzhou-4.

 

[by78]

High-resolution images of the foggy early morning launch of Tianzhou-4.

 

[tphuang]

Saw this posted on the science and tech thread.

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I think it's a pretty big deal if China has a constellation of satellites that can reliably track Western naval ship movement.

 

[SEAD]

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I think it's a pretty big deal if China has a constellation of satellites that can reliably track Western naval ship movement.

They have had the tracking capability for (at least) 5 years according to some reports about awards.
of course AI-on-orbit makes their C3 much more reliable, but that’s all.

 

[siegecrossbow]

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I think it's a pretty big deal if China has a constellation of satellites that can reliably track Western naval ship movement.

Wonder if they can track planes as well.

 

[tphuang]

Wonder if they can track planes as well.

I am sure that's the next step, but probably will take a few more years. I would imagine they need more satellites and better ai.

 

[SEAD]

Wonder if they can track planes as well.

I guess recently it’s possible to detect the main attacking axis of bombers from Guam in a selected good weather daytime, it has been good enough.

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Yeah China cannot track a plane it will need thousand of satellite according to our resident expert with his mambo jambo theory

In another test to verify the performance of space-based AI, the same satellite automatically detected and obtained the coordinates of military aircraft, naval ships and strategic assets such as oil storage tanks in northeastern Australia.
The researchers did not name the satellite reported in their paper. Yang could not be reached for comment.

Several small satellites launched by Chinese universities, government institutes and private companies in recent years have employed AI to improve China’s response to events happening around the world, according to openly available information.

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Yang and her colleagues said the smart satellite could increase the communication efficiency with home by a million times because the AI would remove most of the junk information that jammed the communication channels.

China also has a plan to bring AI to its older remote sensing satellites, according to researchers involved in StarNet, an global internet satellite project launched by the Chinese government last year.