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China's space program, led by its army, was vetoed on the International Space Station, mainly over US objections.
China has again committed to completing its space station in orbit by the end of the year and says it is planning more than 40 launches by 2022, which would bring it almost on par with the United States. China's lunar exploration program includes building a scientific exploration base at the satellite's south pole over the next decade. Once ready, China will be the only country to have its own space station, as Russia's International Space Station (ISS) is a collaborative project of several countries.
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The launches will include two manned missions in Shenzhou, two Tianzhou cargo ships and two additional modules from the orbital laboratory, according to the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, on Thursday (06/01), citing a recent announcement by China. Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, known as CASC.
The two science modules, dubbed Mengtian and Wentian, will join the Tianhe factory, which is currently hosting a crew of three on a six-month mission, the longest in the country's history.
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The launch schedule shows how the traditionally cautious Chinese program is increasing the pace of its missions in its eagerness to take a leading role in space exploration.
The United States expects to do about the same number of launches this year after having slowed down in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Supply chains for crucial elements like computer chips were disrupted, and liquid oxygen, used as fuel in rockets, had to be diverted to hospitals to save patients.
One of the most anticipated, scheduled for March, will be the Space Launch System – a rocket about 1.010 meters (332 feet) high that will serve for future lunar missions.
China's space program, led by its army, was vetoed on the International Space Station, mainly over US objections.
China will not carry out the construction of the base alone and announces Russia as a partner in the project
China will not carry out the construction of the base alone: "We will work with Russia to build the bases of the lunar exploration station, which will lay a solid foundation for investigating lunar resources and the environment," the CNSA deputy director told the media. local in a recent interview. Building a base at the moon's south pole would have the advantage that the solar panels powering the station would enjoy more hours of sunlight than elsewhere on the moon.
After signing the cooperation agreement with Russia last March, the chief designer of the lunar exploration program, Wu Weiren, stated that “if the lunar research station project can be successfully implemented, China will not be far from achieve a manned landing on the moon.”
At the moment, part of the Chang'e 4 mission is on the lunar surface. The Yutu 2 vehicle, which is currently in operation, arrived on the Moon aboard the unmanned probe Chang'e-4 in 2019, when it became the first ship to land on the far side of the satellite.
Chinese experts predicted shortly after the launch of Chang'e-4 that there would be "amazing discoveries" on the far side of the Moon, in which "deeply hidden information" could be revealed.
The Chang'e program (named after a goddess who, according to Chinese legends, lives on the Moon) began with the launch of a first probe in 2007. The ultimate goal of this program is a manned mission to the Moon.
China livestreams the New Year's view from the new space station
China welcomed the New Year with a live feed from cameras outside the Tianhe space station's new module. In a new video from National Space Administration from China, broadcast live on New Year's Day (January 1), you can now see the beauty of the Earth below the Tianhe module on China's Tiangong space station. China Central Television has started broadcasting, and you can also watch it above), three hours of live footage from the module.
In the footage, during which Tianhe orbits Earth twice, camera feeds rotate through different panning cameras, which were set up by astronauts during spacewalks.
The various views show the Tianhe docking hub hatch for extravehicular activities, the station's solar panels and the docked Shenzhou 13 spacecraft, as well as clouds, oceans and landforms on our planet below.
During the live stream, astronauts aboard the space station also made a few appearances, even talking to university students in Beijing from the station, according to China's state media provider Xinhua.
