China's Space Program Thread II
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Awesome. I hope we will soon find out more about the expansion program. It would be amazing if they are able to expand the space station for six permanent astronauts. I think in theory this is possible, if they basically add a copy of each module. They could also put a permanent Tianzhou somewhere for extra space and storage, similar to the Leonardo module on the ISS which was used for cargo transfer but later added permanently. With six astronauts they could also adopt the model of the ISS whereby there is a mix of nationalities. For instance, have four Chinese taikonauts and two astronauts from other nations. European astronauts have trained with Chinese astronauts, so astronauts from European countries would be an option but I think that at the moment that would not happen. I could see astronauts from African, Middle Eastern and Asian (Except Japan/SK) nations be an option. This would be great for China in terms of PR and foreign relations.It's been almost two years since the completion of China's space station.
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Doesn't matter anyway because it seems to be one of the early concepts that was abandoned. See the smaller crew launcher with 4 boosters, that seems to be crewed CZ-5 (planned). In Long Lehao's paper he called it CZ-5A (removing 2nd stage, 25T LEO), which eventually named as CZ-5B instead. The two larger launchers look like 2 staged CZ-9 in conceptual phase. The whole idea uses LEO station in the same way as constellation program. I'd say the paper is from around 2010 or before.Some diagrams from academic papers, which I don't have access to:
A refuel station located at L1, which could be handy when it comes to manned missions to the Moon and astroid exploration missions:
Details of the rockets can be seen in
This is from this paper, I got it from this forum.Manned Mars mission using nuclear powered spacecraft:
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