antiterror13
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Are those pictures 0.72m resolution?
China's Space Program News Thread
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escobar
Brigadier
After the two successful launches of the Kuaizhou rapid response rocket, CASIC is developing a larger and more powerful family of rapid reaction launchers, while preserving the Kuaizhou features like payload integrated with fourth stage, fully-storable, solid fuel, launched from a mobile TEL.
Kuaizhou-11, with a capacity of 1t to 700 km SSO, will be launched in 2016. Kuaizhou-21 is currently in development. CASIC wants to control the launch costs to less than 10 000 USD per kg in orbit, or 10 million USD for 1t:
Kuaizhou-11, with a capacity of 1t to 700 km SSO, will be launched in 2016. Kuaizhou-21 is currently in development. CASIC wants to control the launch costs to less than 10 000 USD per kg in orbit, or 10 million USD for 1t:
escobar
Brigadier
likely...
plawolf
Lieutenant General
I think that's the whole spacecraft.
You have your standard flattened-cone-shaped lander on top, with the orbiter with its big receiver/transmitter below.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
take another look there Wolf, this is a classic lander The whole thing is meant to land and stay like the old Viking. There are legs on the bottom and a Engine bell like the Old Apollo LEM.
plawolf
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I really don't know. Those "legs" looks like a display stand to me.
Where are the shock absorbers if they actually expect the spacecraft to touch down on those legs? Those legs are also way too close together if they want to land on them. Very little margin for error, a tiny misalignment or even a small rock could tip the whole thing over.
How is the rover supposed to get down onto the surface?
Why wrap the lander in a classic protective lander capsule at all if the whole thing is meant to touch down?
Those round spheres look like fuel tanks. Terrible idea to place them there if you want the lander to come down butt first to use the engine bell to slow down decent in an atmosphere.
I cannot see how the thing is supposed to survive atmospheric re-entry without an entire wrap-around protective casing, in which case the engine bell and fuel tanks are pointless.
TerraN_EmpirE
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Chinese Mars Lander Unveiled
by — November 3, 2015
A one-third scale model of the proposed spacecraft went on display Tuesday at the 17th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai.
The mission, scheduled for launch in 2020, will include both an orbiter and a lander.
It will be China’s second attempt at a Mars mission, after the small Yinghuo-1 spacecraft that flew as a secondary payload on Russia’s failed Fobos-Grunt mission in 2011. [gbtimes]
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Okay I stand corrected. the link offered earlier was in Chinese.
by — November 3, 2015
A one-third scale model of the proposed spacecraft went on display Tuesday at the 17th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai.
The mission, scheduled for launch in 2020, will include both an orbiter and a lander.
It will be China’s second attempt at a Mars mission, after the small Yinghuo-1 spacecraft that flew as a secondary payload on Russia’s failed Fobos-Grunt mission in 2011. [gbtimes]
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Okay I stand corrected. the link offered earlier was in Chinese.
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