China's Space Program News Thread

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In addition to significantly improve the areas of engineering for China, the project itself has many benefits.

The article is talking about the "Artificial Moon" has the light intensity of 3 to 5 times that of regular moon. I think they make it so low to preempt the expected blow back. I will talk about the blow back in the future.

But I think the biggest payoff for the city of Chengdu will be the tourist attraction. I am sure this is pretty evident to everybody.

It can also be used for disaster relief. Right after natural disaster, this will certainly be very useful to provide lighting solution right away.

It can provide Biologist to conduct study to better understand how lighting affect (both positively and negatively) animal and plants.

It can be of great help for space exploration, especially for China. For example, China is building a moon base at the dark side of the moon. This can serve as the demonstration project for China to build a solar satellite to provide lighting to China's moon base at the dark side of the moon. Frankly, this approach can duplicated many times for missions to other planets.

Lots of benefits can come out from this work. But the blow back will be severe. I will talk about that next.

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The blow back will be severe. Most of the blow back will come from China itself.

In a post I wrote a couple of days ago, I talked about the solar reflect projects to collect power and the power beaming project to "beam" the power back to earth. Virtually nobody talking about the solar reflect project for power collection. Many advanced countries (USA, Europe, Japan, China) have on-going development for the power beaming projects.

All of these are currently in the lab stage. But it is clear to everybody that these project, if they ever become fruition, will have severe resistance.

For the "Artificial Moon" project, the resistance can come from biologists who are afraid of the effect on animals, etc. But mostly, it is just western media that try to find mud. As matter of fact, most biologists will probably be happy with this as this provides them with a great platform to conduct research into future understanding how light affect various animals/plants. As long as this project can be limited to only one or two locations.

But the biggest blow back will come from Astronomists. The "Artificial Moon" will create light pollution. There are clouds in the sky that will reflect and scatter lights in all direction. The astronomists will be up in arm (especially the one in China because they will be affected the most).

So how much will this affect astronomy? nobody knows at this point. Just like all new technologies, it would cause many affects. Eventually, both sides will work out, new understanding will arrive based on actual field data. Limits will be placed on this project.

No, China is not going to allow this project be duplicated in many cities in China. But if this project can continue, China will gain a great deal in terms of technology improvement.

Faithlock said:

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The blow back will be severe. Most of the blow back will come from China itself.

In a post I wrote a couple of days ago, I talked about the solar reflect projects to collect power and the power beaming project to "beam" the power back to earth. Virtually nobody talking about the solar reflect project for power collection. Many advanced countries (USA, Europe, Japan, China) have on-going development for the power beaming projects.

All of these are currently in the lab stage. But it is clear to everybody that these project, if they ever become fruition, will have severe resistance.

For the "Artificial Moon" project, the resistance can come from biologists who are afraid of the effect on animals, etc. But mostly, it is just western media that try to find mud. As matter of fact, most biologists will probably be happy with this as this provides them with a great platform to conduct research into future understanding how light affect various animals/plants. As long as this project can be limited to only one or two locations.

But the biggest blow back will come from Astronomists. The "Artificial Moon" will create light pollution. There are clouds in the sky that will reflect and scatter lights in all direction. The astronomists will be up in arm (especially the one in China because they will be affected the most).

So how much will this affect astronomy? nobody knows at this point. Just like all new technologies, it would cause many affects. Eventually, both sides will work out, new understanding will arrive based on actual field data. Limits will be placed on this project.

No, China is not going to allow this project be duplicated in many cities in China. But if this project can continue, China will gain a great deal in terms of technology improvement.

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Would China be able to "turn off" the "moon" whenever necessary if the project succeeded?

More details on the next generation manned spacecraft

danielchin said:

Would China be able to "turn off" the "moon" whenever necessary if the project succeeded?

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If it uses the concave mirror, it would be difficult to turn it off. But it can always point it to a different point in Earth (middle of a desert, for example). If it uses lasers, it can do all kinds of control (turn on/off, attenuates/amplifies, etc.).

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From the comparison graphics, China crewed capsule is the biggest of them all. But Orion and the Russian have bigger Crew Module.

Faithlock said:

From the comparison graphics, China crewed capsule is the biggest of them all. But Orion and the Russian have bigger Crew Module.

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the China crewed capsule on the graphics employs a moon/deep-space mission service module, but it can also use a smaller low earth orbit mission service module according to the 5th page of powerpoint.

Wait for the beginning of China's private space age on October 27, 2018!!!!

On October 27 (this coming Saturday), LandSpace plans to launch China's private launch to deliver a satellite into orbit. Previously, both iSpace and OneSpace launched their own sounding rockets (but not to orbit).

So far, all the rockets in 3 companies are solid fuel rockets. But I am pretty sure they will beginning to develop liquid fuel rockets once they have more experience.

A Long March-4B (Chang Zheng-4) rocket launched HY-2B satellite on 24 October 2018, at 22:57 UTC (25 October 2018, 06:57 local time).

China's very first private rocket launch to orbit supposed to have happened. But I can't find any news yet. Hope everything went well.