China's Space Program News Thread
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Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Chang'e-4's successful landing on the dark side of the moon. Since then, the lander and Yutu-2 rover have been in operation on the lunar surface for 1096 days and collected 3789 gigs of data. The rover has travelled 992.33 meters from the landing spot. Meanwhile, the Magpie Bridge relay satellite has been in operation for 1322 days.
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Looks like my cup of cappuccino this morning.
CNSA announced there is a over-fourty-launches task schedule in 2022, including teo Tianzhou cargo flight, two Shenzhou crew flight, two laboratory-module launches and completion of construction of the China Space Station. New CZ-6A rocket will take her debut flight.
Tianzhou-4 will be launched at March 6th, or delayed to May 5th to 7th on condition of bad weather or mechanic problems.
Wentian Lab Module will be launched in May 5th to 7th, or delayed to June 3rd to 5th.
Summer is usually the off-season in Hainan Island, but Wenchang Hilton has no room left on the scheduled dates.
I don't see this posted:
On Jan 6, the Chinese space station took 47 mins to complete a test of the robotic arm. During the test, the Tianzhou2 cargo ship was detached from the core section. The robotic arm then grabbed the cargo ship, moved it from the current dock position to another side, then moved it back to attach again.
This test verifies the load capability of the robotic arm, and the procedure of moving sections (or capsules? not sure how to translate "舱段") between dock positions:
The embedded GIF animation demos the movement. But sadly the video sucks.
On Jan 6, the Chinese space station took 47 mins to complete a test of the robotic arm. During the test, the Tianzhou2 cargo ship was detached from the core section. The robotic arm then grabbed the cargo ship, moved it from the current dock position to another side, then moved it back to attach again.
This test verifies the load capability of the robotic arm, and the procedure of moving sections (or capsules? not sure how to translate "舱段") between dock positions:
The embedded GIF animation demos the movement. But sadly the video sucks.
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