accidentally microwaving a metal can in a typical private home tend to be substantially less costly than doing so in a space station. The cost of just transporting a replacement microwave being something like $50,000/KG
China's Space Program News Thread
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I wanted to find some pictures of ESA astronauts training in China in 2017 because such pictures carry much more impact than just words and I was not disappointed:
Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut, been on ISS between 2014-2015, might go again in 2022.
Matthias Maurer, German astronaut, scheduled to go to ISS in October this year as his first spaceflight
Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut, been on ISS between 2014-2015, might go again in 2022.
Matthias Maurer, German astronaut, scheduled to go to ISS in October this year as his first spaceflight
CSS being completed in 2022 can take 3 long term and 3 short term. Maybe foreign astronauts can come when Tianhe-2 is added? I'd imagine the new upcoming space capsule will be hauling crew back and forth as it can carry 6 astronauts.
Xuntian Space Telescope. Seems to be the final version. Older depictions show it with different solar panels.
plawolf
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I have a feeling it has been approved, but they are just holding off on announcing it because it is actually an area of real import, so they don’t want to give NASA any more leverage to get more funding for their own moon base plans.
If China announced its moon base plans, all that it will achieve is ensure the US diverted vast resources to try to beat China to it.
antiterror13
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wowww, 300x better than the Hubble ... impressive, and able to dock with CSS ..... amazing!
Or, perhaps, like most things with the Chinese space program, they are holding off until they have firm dates before announcing. They seem pretty responsible about that.
A Chinese announcement won’t mean anything. Head of NASA has already fabricate such a Chinese announcement where none existed to help drum up more money to land on the moon before Mid 2020s. The political currents in the US is with the effort for now. The US will certainly devote enough resources during next several years to return men to the moon considerably ahead of China, and then use the nominal scale of international participation in the the Artemis program to delegitimize any subsequent major Chinese effort on the moon in international popular opinion.
Of course political currents can change, as can international alignment.
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The Chinese and Russians have unveiled their Lunar Research Base road map that calls for it to be crewed after 2036, with phases and series of missions see
Its pretty methodical rather than 'build it they will come' or ' We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard'
People have already walked on the Moon and if their past approaches are anything to go by the Chinese space program is pragmatic I don't think they'll just waste time and money doing things for show 'look how great we are we sent a man to the moon too!'. Rather if they do land on the moon it will be for a reason, testing something or doing something that needs humans
For some perverse reason its the Americans that seem to have a chip on their shoulder about having something to prove and makes everything into a race, oscillating between we are the greatest to we're so behind! Maybe losing the detailed blueprints for your moon rockets will do that to you, who knows!
The Chinese talk about a century of humiliation but it wasn't all plain sailing in the past few decades for Russia they may want to cast their demons aside by finally doing what the Soviets didn't manage half a century earlier, sooner rather than later and dictate a quicker pace!
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