China's Space Program News Thread

[danielchin]

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[Quickie]

Amazing, the CZ-6 first stage has just a single main engine.

 

[broadsword]

LM-5 will use two YF-100s, used in LM-6. Still, the YF-100 is 1/3 the power of the RD-180

 

[broadsword]

Sorry Jeff, China has already operational space station, called Tiangong-1, operational in 2011. Yes it is a modest one.

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Obviously, Jeff was referring to a continuously manned station, via rotation, and regularly supplied with General Tso's chicken.

 

[Quickie]

LM-5 will use two YF-100s, used in LM-6. Still, the YF-100 is 1/3 the power of the RD-180

The RD-180 is a dual combustion chamber and dual-

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design sharing a single turbopump unit. So in some way it's working like 2 YF-100s, the only difference is the 2 YF-100s has each its own turbopump unit.

 

[Quickie]

I forget where I read this to cite it, but I think the Space station aimed to be in orbit by 2020 will be similar in sizr to the Mir space station. Impressive for a country which only put its first man in space in 2003. And it would have to be a massive catastrophe which stopped this. The Chinese know well the economic opportunities space has in store.

The ISS is an international cooperation, and so, the workload and more importantly the sharing of technology are spread across a number of nations. China on the other hand has to handle the workload all by herself in addition to having to work against certain technology embargo.

 

[Qi_1528]

The ISS is an international cooperation, and so, the workload and more importantly the sharing of technology are spread across a number of nations. China on the other hand has to handle the workload all by herself in addition to having to work against certain technology embargo.

I think you misunderstood me. I was talking about the Chinese station being similar in size to the Soviet Mir station, which was quite a bit smaller than the ISS.

 

[Jeff Head]

China has already operational space station, called Tiangong-1, operational in 2011. Yes it is a modest

The bigger and more advanced version Tiangong-2 is planned to be launched in 2016

Yes...Tiangong-1 is about the size of Skylab with a crew of three.

SKYLAB (1972-1979)


TIANGONG-1 (2011-)


Tianyong-2 will be bigger, but still hold a crew of three I believe.

I thought they were planning something even larger...but perhaps that is after 2020.

 

[Quickie]

I think you misunderstood me. I was talking about the Chinese station being similar in size to the Soviet Mir station, which was quite a bit smaller than the ISS.

Exactly. I was getting that you were implying it won't be as big as the ISS.

 

[Quickie]

I think you misunderstood me. I was talking about the Chinese station being similar in size to the Soviet Mir station, which was quite a bit smaller than the ISS.

Lol, I reread my post and felt that it may cause another "misunderstanding".

Just want to add that I was just making a casual comment about it and there wasn't anything negative about your comment in the first place.