China's Space Program News Thread
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Re: Chinese Satellites
If that were to fell on my backyard, all I could think of is borrow a blowtorch, a friend's pick-up truck and sell the stuff for scrap metal recycling.
A booster fell near the village of Dadi (Guizhou province)
One half of the fairing fell not far from a house in Wangyue village, Jianxi province
If that were to fell on my backyard, all I could think of is borrow a blowtorch, a friend's pick-up truck and sell the stuff for scrap metal recycling.
escobar
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Re: Chinese Satellites
I just find this: it seems that Tiangong-1 is equipped with "2 high definition camera for Earth Observation". One have a CCD resolution of 60cm and the other is IR. By comparison the World's Highest-resolution Commercial Sat GeoEye-1 is able to collect imagery with a resolution of 41cm.
I just find this: it seems that Tiangong-1 is equipped with "2 high definition camera for Earth Observation". One have a CCD resolution of 60cm and the other is IR. By comparison the World's Highest-resolution Commercial Sat GeoEye-1 is able to collect imagery with a resolution of 41cm.
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bladerunner
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Maybe this could be something for the Director of the Chinese Space Agency to think about?
MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
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A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday.
“At present we are testing several types of fuel and later we will start drafting the design,” Kovalevich said. “The first parts [of the nuclear engine] should be built in 2013, and the engine is expected to be ready by 2017.”
The engine is being developed for interplanetary manned spacecraft to ensure that Russia maintains a competitive edge in the space race, including the exploration of the Moon and Mars.
The Russian government allocated 500 million rubles ($16.7 million) in 2010 to start a project to build a spacecraft with a nuclear engine. The overall investment in the project is estimated at 17 billion rubles (over $580 million) until 2019.
According to Russia’s nuclear power agency Rosatom, the development and construction of a nuclear propulsion system for spacecraft will cost over 7.2 billion rubles ($247 mln).
NASA started a program to develop a nuclear propulsion system in 2003, and spent several hundred million dollars on the project before cutting funding.
Russian space officials believe that nuclear engines for interplanetary spaceships are a very promising area, as solar power is too weak to be used as a power source at distances beyond Earth's orbit.
Maybe this could be something for the Director of the Chinese Space Agency to think about?
MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
Tags: Skolkovo, NASA, Russia
Related News
A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday.
“At present we are testing several types of fuel and later we will start drafting the design,” Kovalevich said. “The first parts [of the nuclear engine] should be built in 2013, and the engine is expected to be ready by 2017.”
The engine is being developed for interplanetary manned spacecraft to ensure that Russia maintains a competitive edge in the space race, including the exploration of the Moon and Mars.
The Russian government allocated 500 million rubles ($16.7 million) in 2010 to start a project to build a spacecraft with a nuclear engine. The overall investment in the project is estimated at 17 billion rubles (over $580 million) until 2019.
According to Russia’s nuclear power agency Rosatom, the development and construction of a nuclear propulsion system for spacecraft will cost over 7.2 billion rubles ($247 mln).
NASA started a program to develop a nuclear propulsion system in 2003, and spent several hundred million dollars on the project before cutting funding.
Russian space officials believe that nuclear engines for interplanetary spaceships are a very promising area, as solar power is too weak to be used as a power source at distances beyond Earth's orbit.
Re: Chinese Satellites
Distances beyond earth's orbit, not to launch into earth orbit...
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I think this is a pipe dream. Megawatt class nuclear engine? Ready by 2017? Good luck with that.
In the first place, no country has ever used solar power as a source of energy to launch spacecraft into orbit.
Distances beyond earth's orbit, not to launch into earth orbit...
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I think this is a pipe dream. Megawatt class nuclear engine? Ready by 2017? Good luck with that.
Quickie
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Re: Chinese Satellites
I was referring to the logical error in the wordings which implies that solar power is already used to launch spacecraft to earth's orbit. Btw, solar power could only be the source of energy for the propulsion fuel, whatever it may supposed to be. In the case of the above article, they're still figuring out the type of propulsion fuel to be used with the nuclear engine.
I was referring to the logical error in the wordings which implies that solar power is already used to launch spacecraft to earth's orbit. Btw, solar power could only be the source of energy for the propulsion fuel, whatever it may supposed to be. In the case of the above article, they're still figuring out the type of propulsion fuel to be used with the nuclear engine.
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