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Some images of a PowerPoint presentation from the China Space Conference last month. These concern China's future manned space program.
The first slide concerns the manned moon landing. A new generation manned rocket (rumored code name 921) is very large; Wenchang launch center is being considered as the launch site. Command, control, and communications system/network have three tiers: near space, deep space, and a "Moon Relay Navigation Constellation". The return landing will be on land and on sea; a sea landing site will be set up.
The slide below shows the design of a very large lunar rover, or a roving laboratory. In the illustration on the right, it can be seen mounted at the very top. You can see two of the wheels sticking out, as well as what appear to be three forward facing windows. The roving lab is completely enclosed and can support multiple astronauts on a multi-day mission across the lunar terrain.
The space suit for doing the obligatory moon walks:
This slide is on the roadmap for reusable space planes. I can't be sure, but it appears to show two distinct systems for different purposes:
1) The top one is a transport plane that can reach any corner of earth in one hour. I call this an earth-to-earth spaceplane. Apparently, VTVL has been chosen as the starting point, as it's the most technically feasible at this point.
2) The bottom one is a "space-to-earth" transport plane.
This is a technical overview and breakdown of the various technologies required for the "earth-to-earth", "space-to-earth", and "orbital transfer" systems. Someone please do a more detailed translation as my technical Chinese is limited.
The first slide concerns the manned moon landing. A new generation manned rocket (rumored code name 921) is very large; Wenchang launch center is being considered as the launch site. Command, control, and communications system/network have three tiers: near space, deep space, and a "Moon Relay Navigation Constellation". The return landing will be on land and on sea; a sea landing site will be set up.
The slide below shows the design of a very large lunar rover, or a roving laboratory. In the illustration on the right, it can be seen mounted at the very top. You can see two of the wheels sticking out, as well as what appear to be three forward facing windows. The roving lab is completely enclosed and can support multiple astronauts on a multi-day mission across the lunar terrain.
The space suit for doing the obligatory moon walks:
This slide is on the roadmap for reusable space planes. I can't be sure, but it appears to show two distinct systems for different purposes:
1) The top one is a transport plane that can reach any corner of earth in one hour. I call this an earth-to-earth spaceplane. Apparently, VTVL has been chosen as the starting point, as it's the most technically feasible at this point.
2) The bottom one is a "space-to-earth" transport plane.
This is a technical overview and breakdown of the various technologies required for the "earth-to-earth", "space-to-earth", and "orbital transfer" systems. Someone please do a more detailed translation as my technical Chinese is limited.
