Re: Chinese Satellites
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President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that a new Chinese-built satellite for Venezuela will be launched this year.
Chavez made the announcement at a farewell party in Miraflores Palace, the presidential residence, for a group of 50 telecommunications engineers before they travelled to China for training.
The group of civil and military engineers from the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities will be trained in China for six months to operate the new satellite.
"The new satellite will be called 'Miranda.' The Venezuelan people have to know about the technological, scientific, productive, political and social development of our country," Chavez said.
The satellite will help monitor natural phenomena such as earthquakes, flooding and intense rains as well as desertification, the loss of arable land and illegal mining.
The Miranda satellite is expected to be sent into orbit at 639 km from China between September and October, almost four years after the launch of Venezuela's first satellite "Simon Bolivar."
On Oct. 29, 2008, China launched the jointly built telecommunication satellite Venesat-1, also dubbed "Simon Bolivar," making Venezuela the fourth Latin American country that owns a satellite after Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that a new Chinese-built satellite for Venezuela will be launched this year.
Chavez made the announcement at a farewell party in Miraflores Palace, the presidential residence, for a group of 50 telecommunications engineers before they travelled to China for training.
The group of civil and military engineers from the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities will be trained in China for six months to operate the new satellite.
"The new satellite will be called 'Miranda.' The Venezuelan people have to know about the technological, scientific, productive, political and social development of our country," Chavez said.
The satellite will help monitor natural phenomena such as earthquakes, flooding and intense rains as well as desertification, the loss of arable land and illegal mining.
The Miranda satellite is expected to be sent into orbit at 639 km from China between September and October, almost four years after the launch of Venezuela's first satellite "Simon Bolivar."
On Oct. 29, 2008, China launched the jointly built telecommunication satellite Venesat-1, also dubbed "Simon Bolivar," making Venezuela the fourth Latin American country that owns a satellite after Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
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China will launch another spacecraft in June to dock with its Tiangong-1 space lab, and one more spaceship next year to conduct a more demanding manual docking, according to sources with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CAST), the Legal Mirror reported Wednesday.
The country's first successful space docking maneuver took place between Shenzhou-8 and the orbiting Tiangong-1 late last year.
While it is known that Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 are part of the program to establish a manned space station, earlier reports only said the two would be launched in the first and second half of this year, and no information about crew was released.
The Shenzhou-9 mission will still focus on docking, separating and docking with Tiangong-1 to ensure safety in the coming manned mission, Zhu Yilin, a researcher with CAST and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), told the Legal Mirror.
Shenzhou-9 will also carry out other space experiments, such as carrying seeds and animals into a space environment of radiation and weightlessness.Shenzhou-9 will try opening the passageway linking the spaceship and Tiangong-1 when they dock, a move not carried out in the Shenzhou-8 mission, Zhu said.
However, Pang Zhihao, a researcher from CAST, said it has not been decided whether the Shenzhou-9 mission will be manned or not.
"It will carry out automatic docking with the Tiangong-1 vehicle, if it is still unmanned, but for a manned mission, astronauts will definitely carry out manual docking," he told the Global Times.
Manual docking has a higher success rate than automatic docking, but requires that astronauts have a high level of skill and be in strong psychological condition, said Pang, adding that Russia uses automatic docking in most of its missions, while the US mainly uses manual docking.
According to the Legal Mirror report, the Shenzhou-9's main ground tests have been completed, and the Tiangong-2 space lab, which is a backup for Tiangong-1, is ready to be rolled out.
China formally began its manned space program in 1992, successfully launching Shenzhou-5 in 2003 for its first manned space mission. A space walk was accomplished in 2008.
China will launch another spacecraft in June to dock with its Tiangong-1 space lab, and one more spaceship next year to conduct a more demanding manual docking, according to sources with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CAST), the Legal Mirror reported Wednesday.
The country's first successful space docking maneuver took place between Shenzhou-8 and the orbiting Tiangong-1 late last year.
While it is known that Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 are part of the program to establish a manned space station, earlier reports only said the two would be launched in the first and second half of this year, and no information about crew was released.
The Shenzhou-9 mission will still focus on docking, separating and docking with Tiangong-1 to ensure safety in the coming manned mission, Zhu Yilin, a researcher with CAST and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), told the Legal Mirror.
Shenzhou-9 will also carry out other space experiments, such as carrying seeds and animals into a space environment of radiation and weightlessness.Shenzhou-9 will try opening the passageway linking the spaceship and Tiangong-1 when they dock, a move not carried out in the Shenzhou-8 mission, Zhu said.
However, Pang Zhihao, a researcher from CAST, said it has not been decided whether the Shenzhou-9 mission will be manned or not.
"It will carry out automatic docking with the Tiangong-1 vehicle, if it is still unmanned, but for a manned mission, astronauts will definitely carry out manual docking," he told the Global Times.
Manual docking has a higher success rate than automatic docking, but requires that astronauts have a high level of skill and be in strong psychological condition, said Pang, adding that Russia uses automatic docking in most of its missions, while the US mainly uses manual docking.
According to the Legal Mirror report, the Shenzhou-9's main ground tests have been completed, and the Tiangong-2 space lab, which is a backup for Tiangong-1, is ready to be rolled out.
China formally began its manned space program in 1992, successfully launching Shenzhou-5 in 2003 for its first manned space mission. A space walk was accomplished in 2008.
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True, a nation's glory dose not gain from bash another's achievement (and this gose both ways). Russian and Chinese netizens just trying to be peacockish on some "would coming" national pride while US netizens just trying to be fun when kill time. Really, I consider some (not all) conspiracy stuff just trying to be funny (and they done a terrible job on that) at the first place.
On a sidenote, one of these days, those big and "mainstream" websites shall pay for their self-esteem - they split this one news into ... let me count... 34 webpages, in order to keep you clicking. Down of the capitalist sucker!
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True, a nation's glory dose not gain from bash another's achievement (and this gose both ways). Russian and Chinese netizens just trying to be peacockish on some "would coming" national pride while US netizens just trying to be fun when kill time. Really, I consider some (not all) conspiracy stuff just trying to be funny (and they done a terrible job on that) at the first place.
On a sidenote, one of these days, those big and "mainstream" websites shall pay for their self-esteem - they split this one news into ... let me count... 34 webpages, in order to keep you clicking. Down of the capitalist sucker!
True, a nation's glory dose not gain from bash another's achievement (and this gose both ways). Russian and Chinese netizens just trying to be peacockish on some "would coming" national pride while US netizens just trying to be fun when kill time. Really, I consider some (not all) conspiracy stuff just trying to be funny (and they done a terrible job on that) at the first place.
On a sidenote, one of these days, those big and "mainstream" websites shall pay for their self-esteem - they split this one news into ... let me count... 34 webpages, in order to keep you clicking. Down of the capitalist sucker!
---------- Post added at 11:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 AM ----------
True, a nation's glory dose not gain from bash another's achievement (and this gose both ways). Russian and Chinese netizens just trying to be peacockish on some "would coming" national pride while US netizens just trying to be fun when kill time. Really, I consider some (not all) conspiracy stuff just trying to be funny (and they done a terrible job on that) at the first place.
On a sidenote, one of these days, those big and "mainstream" websites shall pay for their self-esteem - they split this one news into ... let me count... 34 webpages, in order to keep you clicking. Down of the capitalist sucker!
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Slightly dissapointing but also expected, given it's a new foray into docking.
The issue isn't the spacecraft itself, it seems (used twice for manned missions successfully alread) but rather the docking system. So the only "issue" here, apart from waiting a bit longer for a manned docking, is that Shenzhou 8, 9 and 10 were all suppoedly manufactured at the same time, and may all have the vulnerability that Shenzhou 8 may have exposed a vulneraility through the tianong 1 dockings. But given how big the issue is, and how capable the spacecrafts are to be modified, I expect Shenzhou 9 will be changed to fix the problem, and shenzhou 10 logically the manned mission.
The fact Shenzhou 10 is still said to be a manned mission makes me think the issue is likely slightly less intense than the rather alarmist title suggests, but better to be more careful and alarmist than sorry.
Slightly dissapointing but also expected, given it's a new foray into docking.
The issue isn't the spacecraft itself, it seems (used twice for manned missions successfully alread) but rather the docking system. So the only "issue" here, apart from waiting a bit longer for a manned docking, is that Shenzhou 8, 9 and 10 were all suppoedly manufactured at the same time, and may all have the vulnerability that Shenzhou 8 may have exposed a vulneraility through the tianong 1 dockings. But given how big the issue is, and how capable the spacecrafts are to be modified, I expect Shenzhou 9 will be changed to fix the problem, and shenzhou 10 logically the manned mission.
The fact Shenzhou 10 is still said to be a manned mission makes me think the issue is likely slightly less intense than the rather alarmist title suggests, but better to be more careful and alarmist than sorry.
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