China's Space Program News Thread

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davidau

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Moon rock diplomacy XD

Don't sell your soul to CCP for piece of moon rock
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The good ole US, NASA already requested China to give them a sample. Other countries, without naming, are green/purple with jealousy.

I vaguely remember out of about 380 000 grams, US gave China 1 g of the moon dust collected by Apollo.

How much should China give to uncle Sam in return?

China was banned in participating in the ISS. How can it be International if you exclude one-fifth of the world's humanity? Now, thick- skinned NASA wants to cooperate with China in China's space station and share scientific research with China in Chang'e outstanding earth return profile; the return capsule was skipped and bouncing off atmosphere like a skipping pebble on surface of water...
 
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CNSA phase 3 manned space program call for 11 launches in the next 2 years:
  • space station core module, to be launched in the first half of 2021
  • 2 space station experimental modules
  • 4 Tianzhou cargo spacecrafts
  • 4 manned spacecrafts
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Schedule is friggin packed. How are they going to fit in the interplanetary missions?
 
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Schedule is friggin packed. How are they going to fit in the interplanetary missions?
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Phase 4 Lunar Exploration Program won't start until 2023 with Chang'e 7, so they're getting out of the way to give the manned space program all that Long March 5. As for deep space missions I believe there are three planned (not including the current in progress Tianwen-1):
  • Zhenhe - NEO sample return mission, so like the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission. Target is 2016HO3. Once sample is collected the spacecraft will swing by earth, drop off the sample capsule and then swing out to a Mars and then enter orbit of another asteroid called 133P, to be launched in 2022 on a Long March 3B
  • Tianwen-2 - Mars sample return mission. This one is going to be a monster of a spacecraft and require Long March 9. Same overall mission profile as Chang'e 5 but targeting Mars instead of the moon, to be launched somewhere between 2028 and 2030
  • Jupiter mission - to study Jupiter and its moons, will happen around 2030
Xuntian space telescope will be launched around 2024 on top of a Long March 5B. This is technically a robotic mission but sort of counts under the manned program because origianlly it was going to be a space station module, but then CNSA later decided it's better off as an independent craft.

So basically CNSA is going all in on the manned space program with the space station for the next 2 years.
 
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kentchang

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davidau said:
The good ole US, NASA already requested China to give them a sample. Other countries, without naming, are green/purple with jealousy.

I vaguely remember out of about 380 000 grams, US gave China 1 g of the moon dust collected by Apollo.

How much should China give to uncle Sam in return?

China was banned in participating in the ISS. How can it be International if you exclude one-fifth of the world's humanity? Now, thick- skinned NASA wants to cooperate with China in China's space station and share scientific research with China in Chang'e outstanding earth return profile; the return capsule was skipped and bouncing off atmosphere like a skipping pebble on surface of water...
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I would give NASA exact 1g of the surface dust carefully chosen for its worthlessness.
 
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