China's Space Program Thread II
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It’s just a test run for Ohio. The SeeSeePee wants to help the American people by verifying if EPA fudged with the air quality data.
Any news on landspace? It has been two months since the failure of the Zhuque-2, they should be getting ready to launch again, but there has been no news from them that I can see
by78
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Phase II of the Compound Eye distributed aperture deep space radar project has begun. This phase will see the construction of 25 30-meter aperture radars on Zhongzhou Island (中洲岛) in Chongqing municipality. The is part of China's planetary defense against astroids.
2023-02-15 13:12:25chinadaily.com.cn Editor : Li Yan
This simulated image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Nov 30, 2022 shows China's Shenzhou XV manned spaceship having conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the combination of the space station Tiangong. (Photo/Xinhua)
China will launch two crews to man its Tiangong space station this year, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency published schedules for the Shenzhou XVI and XVII mission crews on Wednesday, saying the Shenzhou XVI team will set out for the Tiangong station in May while their peers in the Shenzhou XVII mission will fly to the massive orbiting outpost in October.
Both crews will consist of three astronauts and will be lifted by a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. Each crew will stay at the station for six months to carry out spacewalks and scientific and technological tasks, and they will also offer lectures, according to the agency.
In addition, the Tianzhou 6 robotic cargo spaceship will be sent to Tiangong in May to deliver necessities, spacewalk suits, experimental payloads, spare parts and fuel.
Tiangong now consists of the Tianhe core module, the Wentian and Mengtian science labs, the Shenzhou XV crew spacecraft and the Tianzhou 5 cargo ship.
So far, four groups of Chinese astronauts have lived and worked inside the station. The current crew — the three members of the Shenzhou XV mission — arrived in November. They carried out their first spacewalk last week to mount equipment outside the station.
by78
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The Tianlong-2 (天龙二号) rocket developed by the private launch provider Beijing Tianbing Technology (北京天兵科技) has been shipped to launch site for its maiden test flight. The TL-2 is a reusable three-stage LOX/Kerosene rocket with a total length of 32.8 meters and a mass of 150 tons at take-off. Payload capacity to LEO is two tons and to SSO is 1.5 tons.
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escobar
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TJS-3 GEO inspector sat had briefly stationed near US WGS-4 (Wideband Global SATCOM) and AEHF-6 (Advanced Extremely High Frequency).
