China's Space Program Thread II

[by78]

Beijing i-Space (also known as Interstellar Glory, Space Honor, Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology, StarCraft Glory, Interplanetary Glory, Interplanetary Glory Space Technology, so on and on and on) has successfully carried out a full-system hot run of its 100-ton reusable LOX/methane JD-2 engine intended for the company's Hyperbola-3 rocket.

 

[gpt]

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from the Manned Space Office. Of the 10 proposals submitted, those from the Micro-satellite Innovation Institute, the Fifth and Eighth Institutes of CASC, and Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute of AVIC have been selected for detailed design study.

I think one of them is likely to be a miniature spaceplane design. CMSA did at one point consider it but opted for the more conservative capsule (shenzhou) design. Russia wanted but didn't manage to replace the Soyuz spacecraft with its Kliper program

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[gelgoog]

Kliper is contemporary to the Lockheed Martin reusable proposal from the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) competition. Which actually pre dates it.
But Kliper had way more development done to it I think.

 

[taxiya]

I think one of them is likely to be a miniature spaceplane design. CMSA did at one point consider it but opted for the more conservative capsule (shenzhou) design. Russia wanted but didn't manage to replace the Soyuz spacecraft with its Kliper program

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You may be right about the spaceplane but the inclusion of AVIC 611 institute isn't the indication. 8th from CASC had also worked on a spaceplane as early as AVIC 611 in early study of manned space program. CALT who lost in today's competetion had a spaceplane that was the 2nd most favorable choice competing with shenzhou design in the 1980s.

CMSA's selection of carrier for manned space program is well documented by this article. During the early time of 863, most proposals are spaceplanes, big or small, only one is shenzhou type capsule by 508 institute, one against five. Among others (AVIC) 601, 611 and (CASC) 1st (CALT), 8th (SASC) academies all proposed spaceplanes. The 508 capsule and CALT spaceplane (天骄-1) were favoured, finally the capsule wan and became shenzhou.

 

[Asug]

You may be right about the spaceplane but the inclusion of AVIC 611 institute isn't the indication. 8th from CASC had also worked on a spaceplane as early as AVIC 611 in early study of manned space program. CALT who lost in today's competetion had a spaceplane that was the 2nd most favorable choice competing with shenzhou design in the 1980s.

CMSA's selection of carrier for manned space program is well documented by this article. During the early time of 863, most proposals are spaceplanes, big or small, only one is shenzhou type capsule by 508 institute, one against five. Among others (AVIC) 601, 611 and (CASC) 1st (CALT), 8th (SASC) academies all proposed spaceplanes. The 508 capsule and CALT spaceplane (天骄-1) were favoured, finally the capsule wan and became shenzhou.

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It's very interesting. Do you have a link to the full article?

 

[by78]

The National Space Administration has officially confirmed that Chang'e-6 lunar exploration mission will launch in 2024. A spacecraft will land in the South Pole-Aitken Basin and collect samples. In preparation for the mission, the Magpie-2 relay communication satellite will be launched in the 1st half of 2024.

 

[by78]

The Yutu-2 rover has sent back the latest panorama of the lunar surface, just in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival:

The latest map showing the path the Yutu-2 rover has taken:

 

[by78]

This is a pretty big deal. Tianhui Aerospace has successfully completed a partial system test run of the 100-ton reusable mixed cycle (

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) RedDragon-1 engine (红龙一号). The full system hot run will take place later this year.

I think I have found out details of Honglong-1 (红龙一号) from Tianhui (天回)
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This is the engine "一种半开式富氧补燃循环发动机" that was discussed before. Here is the patent

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The company is established based on the expertise of the same person who owns the patent, 刘红军 Liu Hongjun. The company is owned by NWPU where Liu is employed.

This is what I think how China's commercial space industry works, most part at least. The state owned institutes have lots of people with lots of ideas that are more than state sponsored programs can utilize due to prioritization and risk management. So these institutes establish commercial companies and invite venture capital to try out these ideas. If they turn out to work well, they can feed back to the state program, if they fail venture capital will share the loss. The competence is always built instead of being wasted.

Tianhui has successfully completed a partial system hot test run, which verified the performance of the oxygen-rich turbine pump and associated components such as valves and pipes.

 

[by78]

Near-Space in China’s Military Strategy: Strategic Reconnaissance, Precision Strike, and Battlefield Advantage

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Could you please give us a summary of this 39-page report? What are the relevant points and passages? What are your thoughts on them? Did you even read the report before you shared it here?

Don't just lackadaisically copy and paste the report's title and think that suffices as a summary.

This forum isn't the place for low-effort information saturation.

 

[taxiya]

It's very interesting. Do you have a link to the full article?

Don't want to sound like a jerk, but you could have tried to search over internet first. Here is the first linked returned from googling

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, click the pdf link.