China's Space Program News Thread

[Richard Santos]

The Chinese scientist in the video said the Chang'e 5 moon samples are different from the Apollo moon samples.

I would hope so, wasn’t Chang’e 5’s landing site selected because it seem to offer potential for being different from where lunar samples have previously been returned?

When is he gonna claim credit for China’s domestic semiconductor fabrication success?

I suspect if it weren’t for trump, the antagonism of the US towards china would not become so theatrical and hyperventilating, but the essence of blocking china from access to key US chip making technology would still have remained central to the agenda of any plausible alternative administration.

The truth is the US political class never had a nuisanced long term view of relationship China. There is only the extremes of a fantasy that china is limitless reservoir of diligent worker bees eager to become acolyte under american tutorage of an american led global economic system, and the morbid fear that china is a limitless horde of ruthless pillagers that would swamp the global system america built and reduce america to a status where it can’t boss Euroasia around. the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other every 10-15 years, snd has been swinging this way since about 2012.

 

[by78]

I suspect if it weren’t for trump, the antagonism of the US towards china would not become so theatrical and hyperventilating, but the essence of blocking china from access to key US chip making technology would still have remained central to the agenda of any plausible alternative administration.

The truth is the US political class never had a nuisanced long term view of relationship China. There is only the extremes of a fantasy that china is limitless reservoir of diligent worker bees eager to become acolyte under american tutorage of an american led global economic system, and the morbid fear that china is a limitless horde of ruthless pillagers that would swamp the global system america built and reduce america to a status where it can’t boss Euroasia around. the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other every 10-15 years, snd has been swinging this way since about 2012.

This isn't a political thread. Please don't derail it.

 

[by78]

The gloves worn by the first Chinese astronaut to conduct a spacewalk/EVA. Also shown is the very flag he waved.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Has traveled 450 meters thus far.

 

[by78]

A high-resolution image of the Mars Lander during its descent.

Higher-resolution versions of previously shared images:

 

[by78]

Beautiful captures from the high-definition video cameras installed on the core module of the Chinese space station.

 

[by78]

Colorized versions of previously released black-and-white images from Mars.

 

[Richard Santos]

What are these downward pointing conical objects? They look like either some sort of enclosed Cassegrain antenna, or some hard contact alignment system.

 

[by78]

China's first private satellite manufacturing company – Jiutian MicroStar (九天微星) – is building a factory in Tangshan in Hebei province. The facility can annually produce 100 satellites of 50- to 700-kg class to satisfy China's demand for communication, navigation, and remote sensing satellites in the low earth orbit. By some estimates, in the next 10 years, China will need 3000 to 6000 such satellites in LEO.

 

[escobar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1415998716146761732

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1415998563931152389