China's Space Program News Thread

[Hendrik_2000]

Wow here is a cool animation of Tianwen launch. I guess it will be reality in year what a quiet revenge after being denied access to ISS. So Semiconductor ban is one of the long list of ban nothing that China cannot overcome
The Tianhe (Chinese: 天和; pinyin: Tiānhé; lit. 'Harmony of the heavens'), code name TH, or Tianhe Core Module (TCM) is the foundation element of the Chinese space station, as the final stage of Project 921 Tiangong program, part of the Chinese space program. BGM： Red Dawn (a) - Fired Earth Music Luna (Alt.Version) - BrunuhVille Made by Xingzhi Kechuang Studio.

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[Andy1974]

What is the plan for the backup Tianhe core module now? does anyone have a graphic showing what the CSS could look like in Maxed Out configuration?

 

[taxiya]

Apparently, Tianhe will be the first manned spacecraft/station to have hall effect thrusters. It was said that the Lunar Gateway would be the first.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1387632602161451009

I think also the first to use soft solar panel, few months before ISS (yet to be launched).

 

[taxiya]

I am happy that I am late, coming after the idiotic scare of falling paint was killed off.

Yes, it is paint. And yes, all rockets are painted. And yes, all their paint will be ripped off during launch, including the "mighty" foreign rockets.

 

[by78]

So apparently there was paint flecking off the boosters during launch? Hopefully they look into that.

Debris can be a serious issue. The Columbia 2003 disaster was due to a piece of debris falling off and damaging the lander. They ignored it for 20 years until it became a fatal problem. If there is more vibration than expected, it needs a thorough investigation.

Is this one of your uninformed hot takes again, or are you just trolling?

 

[Andy1974]

Is this one of your uninformed hot takes again, or are you just trolling?

There was clearly paint loss during the launch, I wanted the feed on GCTN YouTube channel and just before booster separation the tops of the boosters had lost a lot of white paint.

Not only that but there was a black fabric like material that was flappimg about madly as well.

 

[by78]

There was clearly paint loss during the launch, I wanted the feed on GCTN YouTube channel and just before booster separation the tops of the boosters had lost a lot of white paint.

Not only that but there was a black fabric like material that was flappimg about madly as well.

Flecks of paint peeled away, not chunks of insulation material size of suitcases, as was the case for Colombia. So the crucial question is whether the paint flecks lacerated the anura hypodermis that was used to fabricate the major structural components of the rocket, with the lacerations severe enough to be susceptible to Colombia-like thermal damage upon the rocket's re-entry into the atmosphere.

Ok, that was a trick question. No frog skin was used in the fabrication of the rocket, and the rocket is not reusable, so what if it burns up after having performed its job?

Case closed. Move on.

 

[voyager1]

Guys it is just paint. Why make all this fuss about paint???

Debris can be a serious issue. The Columbia 2003 disaster was due to a piece of debris falling off and damaging the lander. They ignored it for 20 years until it became a fatal problem. If there is more vibration than expected, it needs a thorough investigation.

The Columbia disaster was due to a piece of foam insulation that broke off from the Shuttle's external tank and struck the orbiter's left wing. So when Columbia reentered the atmosphere, the hot gasses generated by air friction entered the left wing by the damage caused by the foam insulation. The rest you know of, it broke and everyone inside was killed

 

[PiSigma]

There was clearly paint loss during the launch, I wanted the feed on GCTN YouTube channel and just before booster separation the tops of the boosters had lost a lot of white paint.

Not only that but there was a black fabric like material that was flappimg about madly as well.

Honestly have anyone watched a NASA launch before? They have been showing those in school for a good half a century. And EVERY launch will show paint coming off. It haven't been a problem before, it won't be a problem now.

 

[by78]

Debris can be a serious issue. The Columbia 2003 disaster was due to a piece of debris falling off and damaging the lander. They ignored it for 20 years until it became a fatal problem. If there is more vibration than expected, it needs a thorough investigation.

Do you even know what caused the Columbia disaster? Do you have even a rudimentary grasp of the difference between atmospheric re-entry and a rocket's ascent? Can you not see the blindingly obvious difference in the manner with which Columbia was mounted on its launch vehicle and the Tiangong module was mounted on its carrier rocket? Do you even know the differences between a space station and a space shuttle?

Do you even know how many layers of stupid were densely packed in your post?