TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
The year is 2023. The name of the place is BeiJing 5....
sorry guys i could not resist
China's Space Program News Thread
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solarz
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I call dibs on the Minbari priestesses!
Sorry, but this station will be smaller and less international than ISS. There wont be any NASA austronauts in this station. And probably foreign austronauts will be there for mostly political goodwill ( and most probably from countries like pakistan, Venezuela, cuba, etc).
In fact, Pakistan has already express interest to go to the chinese station (AFAIK its the first country to do so)
Not neccessary, Germany has a long of scientific test wanted carry out beyond 2020 onboard ISS but the service life of ISS is questionable beyond 2020 since the financial status of many western countries is very bad.
In fact, Europe Space Agency has contacted Chinese side for use of Chinese space station for future.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
I happen to agree with kroko, I was making a joke with the Babylon five reference. The space station described is more of a Skylab type. A small single unit compared to iss. Iss by contrast may serve longer NASA is looking at commercial space projects and is said to be working with bigilo space to possibly update parts of the structure
escobar
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from the 64th International Astronautical Congress held in China...
escobar
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Skywatcher
Captain
Official indicators of the moon rocket. Me like. 
escobar
Brigadier
Official indicators of the moon rocket. Me like.
still not official....
Schumacher
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Chinese sats play tag in space.
China Testing New Space Weapons
China conducts satellite capture in space as part of Star Wars military program
BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertz
October 2, 2013 5:00 am
China last week conducted a test of a maneuvering satellite that captured another satellite in space during what Pentagon officials say was a significant step forward for Beijing’s space warfare program.
The satellite capture took place last week and involved one of three small satellites fitted with a mechanical arm that were launched July 20 as part of a covert anti-satellite weapons development program, said U.S. officials familiar with reports of the test.
One official described the satellite-grabbing spacecraft as a “mobile satellite launch vehicle.”
A Pentagon spokeswoman declined to comment on the specifics of the test. But Cynthia O. Smith, the spokeswoman, confirmed that the satellites, designated Payloads A, B, and C, have maneuvered in space since their launch.
“The United States Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Combatant Command for Space (JFCC-Space), consistent with its routine operations to maintain track of objects in space, has monitored these satellites since their launch and has noticed the relative motions of these satellites amongst each other and with respect to other space objects,” she said............................................................
China Testing New Space Weapons
China conducts satellite capture in space as part of Star Wars military program
BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertz
October 2, 2013 5:00 am
China last week conducted a test of a maneuvering satellite that captured another satellite in space during what Pentagon officials say was a significant step forward for Beijing’s space warfare program.
The satellite capture took place last week and involved one of three small satellites fitted with a mechanical arm that were launched July 20 as part of a covert anti-satellite weapons development program, said U.S. officials familiar with reports of the test.
One official described the satellite-grabbing spacecraft as a “mobile satellite launch vehicle.”
A Pentagon spokeswoman declined to comment on the specifics of the test. But Cynthia O. Smith, the spokeswoman, confirmed that the satellites, designated Payloads A, B, and C, have maneuvered in space since their launch.
“The United States Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Combatant Command for Space (JFCC-Space), consistent with its routine operations to maintain track of objects in space, has monitored these satellites since their launch and has noticed the relative motions of these satellites amongst each other and with respect to other space objects,” she said............................................................
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