Chinese Space Program

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[cattalonX]

What do people think of China’s possible approach to creating a reusable launcher that of revamping an existing booster rather than going for a clean sheet design like Space X?

well ，I make a mistake，there is a plan to replace LOX engine for the Long March 2D rocket

Sina Visitor System

 

[cattalonX]

Sina Visitor System

mengtian

 

[cattalonX]

China to help UAE land rover on Moon’s surface | The National

The two countries signed an agreement on Friday

www.thenationalnews.com

Chang'e 7

 

[publiusr]

No fear of size---good on 'em.

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571388086029885441

View: https://twitter.com/cnsawatcher/status/1571388086029885441

According to the MoU, UAE’s Rashid II lunar rover will be on board CNSA’s Chang’e 7 lunar probe. This explained why Chang’e 7 mission was deferred to 2026. Full HD:

View: https://youtu.be/srjf8JG6eZo

 

[Flyaway]

The next cargo spacecraft to resupply China Space Station, Tianzhou-5, has arrived at Wenchang for launch on Nov. 06. It also carries a 4U cubesat CAS-10 (XW-4) and will deploy on ~Dec. 15.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571508906068963333

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1571508906068963333

 

[siegecrossbow]

China’s Tianwen 1 Mars mission wins top international aerospace award

Team recognised for making an ‘essential contribution to a deeper understanding of Mars and the solar system’.

www.scmp.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

NASA chief says cooperation with China in space is up to China

Administrator calls for openness, but NASA is restricted from bilateral engagements.

www.space.com

 

[cattalonX]

Chang'e 5
Chang'e 7 early concept
Chang'e 7 now
Chang'e 8

 

[Grey Havoc]

Rocket doubleheader: China launches 2 satellite missions 40 hours apart (video)

The nation's busy spaceflight year continues.

www.space.com

 

[Flyaway]

Rather late posting this.

China's Shenzhou-14 astronauts complete 2nd spacewalk - See highlights!

View: https://youtu.be/-EOMuzVpgWs

 

[Flyaway]

The first 17 countries to join the "Circle of Friends" of China's space station will involve a wide range of research fields. #天宫is ready for docking assembly. The first batch of 17 countries that join #China 's #spacestation will cover a wide range of research. #TianGong is ready for final assembly. #shenzhou14 #tech #aerospace #space #Astronauts #News..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1575301150298890241

View: https://twitter.com/Daozhu2Q/status/1575301150298890241

 

[Grey Havoc]

From September 22nd:

Taikonauts in orbit salute China's manned space program on 30th anniversary

Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 - The Shenzhou-XIV taikonauts, who are aboard the Tiangong space station, gave an off-Earth salute to all participants in China's 30-year manned space program on Wednesday. In a celebratory vide

www.spacedaily.com

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1576422911807614978

View: https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1576422911807614978

Isn't this cool? The HD footage of Wentian Laboratory Module relocation!
CMSA

 

[Flyaway]

China is planning an ambitious two-for-one shot to the outer planets with a pair of spacecraft to launch for Jupiter and Uranus around 2030.

The mission will be named Tianwen 4 and will see a larger probe destined for Jupiter and smaller spacecraft to be sent to make a flyby of distant Uranus.

China wants to probe Uranus and Jupiter with 2 spacecraft on one rocket

Tianwen 4 to target Jovian moon Callisto and ice giant flyby.

www.space.com

Tianwen-4: China to launch a combined pair spacecraft towards Jupiter via Venus and Earth flybys. One will study the Jovian system and enter orbit around Callisto, the smaller will use a gravity assist to head for a flyby of Uranus. Launch ~ 2030. Asteroid flyby also included.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572711299942940672

View: https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1572711299942940672

 

[Flyaway]

The HD footage of Wentian Laboratory Module relocation!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1576422911807614978

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1576422911807614978

 

[Flyaway]

Space-grown tomato..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577159851628670976

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1577159851628670976

 

[Flyaway]

Updated schedule of missions to China Space Station in 2022:

Mengtian #CZ5B-Y4 NET OCT.31
Tianzhou-5 #CZ7-Y6 NOV.06
Shenzhou-15 #CZ2F-Y15 NOV.26

https://twitter.com/x/status/1578751792296271872

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1578751792296271872

 

[Flyaway]

The Mengtian Laboratory Module is ready for launch:

View: https://youtu.be/m2KDG-6z6v8

 

[TAKHISS]

China 's New Space Timetable
Wu Weiren ( Chief Designer of China Lunar Exploration Project)

In the first stage, by 2035, landmark achievements will be made in heavy carrier rockets, the construction of a new generation of space infrastructure, the construction of space stations, the lunar exploration project, manned lunar landing and planetary exploration.

In the second stage, by 2045, landmark achievements will be made in manned landing on Mars, international lunar research station, interplanetary crossing, space-to-space transportation, etc., becoming one of the leaders in the world 's space development.

 

[Flyaway]

China’s mystery spaceplane has now been in orbit for over 80 days and recently raised the perigee of its orbit.

China’s spaceplane raises orbit and national funding - SpaceNews

A spaceplane launched by China in August has performed an orbit-raising maneuver and recently secured new funding to promote new modes of transportation.

spacenews.com

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584763615722508288

View: https://twitter.com/cnsawatcher/status/1584763615722508288

Ready to go. Long March 5B (CZ5B) Y4 rocket, which carries Mengtian laboratory cabin module, has been rolled out from VAB to the launch pad at Wenchang launch center, Hainan. It’ll send Mengtian on October 31 to Tiangong Space Station (CSS). Source: share.api.weibo.cn/share/34355117…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584920727458705408

View: https://twitter.com/wulei2020/status/1584920727458705408

Have you ever seen how a huge rocket is moved from its assembling building to the launch pad? Today I was at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch site and witnessed how Mengtian lab module and Long March 5B rocket were moved to the launch pad.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Another Problematic Launch Expected as China Seeks to Complete Its Space Station

Experts say it's a near certainty that China's Long March 5B rocket will perform an uncontrolled reentry following an expected launch next week.

gizmodo.com

 

[publiusr]

I’ll call the Celebes where the booster comes back down.

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1586706307850981376

View: https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1586706307850981376

Introducing Mengtian Laboratory Module
17.9m long
4m wide
~23 tonnes
~110 m3 pressurized volume
~32 m3 habitable
4 sub-modules: Pressurized, Payloads, Cargo airlock and Service Module
not less than 10 years of lifetime and can be extended

Oh wait, one more very cool thing: micro/nanosats deploying system through the robotic arm.

Mengtian also has 37 standard exposed payload adapters. See the quoted tweet for more info of the research facilities of China Space Station..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1586716325488971776

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1586716325488971776

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587000494773440514

View: https://twitter.com/cosmic_penguin/status/1587000494773440514

Per the source of this tweet, the deployment orbit was 170 x 339 km and velocity at separation was 7.89 km/s:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587001300503478272

View: https://twitter.com/alexphysics13/status/1587001300503478272

Oh boy that's a low perigee. The core stage will be coming down in a few days

 

[Flyaway]

Mengtian launch:

View: https://youtu.be/4xcgT93s08o

 

[Flyaway]

China launched its final space station module. Well congrats, but it was done on a Long March 5B rocket again, sooo...
Time for uncontrolled re-entry bingo again! Where will it crash? Nobody knows!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587007047937171458

View: https://twitter.com/KamepinUa/status/1587007047937171458

Recalling the score for the three previous missions:

Y3 - debris landed in Borneo, some within 100m of a village
Y2 - reentered over Indian Ocean
Y1 - debris landed in Cote d'Ivoire, damaging buildings in several villages
This mission, Y4: we'll see in a week or so.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1586987858904186880

View: https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1586987858904186880

 

[Flyaway]

#MENGTIAN CZ-5B R/B cataloged as object 54217. From first elements the decay will be be in around 7 to 12 days. The orbit is a little higher and more eccentric than for Wentian's launch.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587115588819849216

View: https://twitter.com/jremis/status/1587115588819849216

 

[Grey Havoc]

From a year or so back:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8qxSfdPBSY

 

[Flyaway]

Mengtian docking:

View: https://youtu.be/v13tDEjt7RM

 

[Deino]

Since it is just a nice image

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587853654190686208

View: https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1587853654190686208

Ted Muelhaupt, of @AerospaceCorp, says that the Long March 5 rocket core is the size of two semi-trailer trucks, and 10 to 40 percent of the dry mass is expected to survive reentry. China's four LM-5s are the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th largest uncontrolled reentries ever.

1&2 are the Skylab and Salyut 7 re-entries.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587848989403189249

View: https://twitter.com/aerospacecorp/status/1587848989403189249

Our latest prediction for #CZ5B rocket body reentry is:
05 Nov 2022 05:10 UTC ± 13 hours
Reentry will be along one of the ground tracks shown here. It is still too early to determine a meaningful debris footprint. Follow here for updates: aerospace.org/reentries/cz-5…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587858672373403654

View: https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1587858672373403654

In an @AerospaceCorp briefing, Ted Muelhaupt says the risk of any casualties from the upcoming CZ-5B renter is between 1:1000 and 1:230, far worse than the internationally accepted threshold of 1:10,000. But the risk to you individually, though, is very small: 6 in 10 trillion.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587863768570023937

View: https://twitter.com/aerospacecorp/status/1587863768570023937

Casualty in this context means any injury, small to fatal. The risk is still not zero and is greater than internationally accepted threshold (as @jeff_foust mentioned), but you also have a better chance of winning the lottery.

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587867932188704771

View: https://twitter.com/cnsawatcher/status/1587867932188704771

First-person video of Mengtian laboratory cabin module docking with Tiangong Space Station (CSS). Full HD:

View: https://youtu.be/FQNWeCI3L7o

 

[Flyaway]

Check out this amazing imagery we just snapped of the Long March 5B rocket body currently hurtling uncontrolled back to earth. My job is pretty cool

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587967423864791040

View: https://twitter.com/AnnieHandmer/status/1587967423864791040

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587935951388831744

View: https://twitter.com/aerospacecorp/status/1587935951388831744

Our latest prediction for #CZ5B rocket body reentry is:
04 Nov 2022 23:17 UTC ± 10 hours
Reentry will be along one of the ground tracks shown here. It is still too early to determine a meaningful debris footprint. Follow here for updates:  aerospace.org/reentries/cz-5…

 

[bobbymike]

After 3 Months in Space, China's Mysterious Spaceplane Ejects Unknown Object

China's inaugural spaceplane mission in 2020 lasted for only two days, but this one just keeps on going.

gizmodo.com

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588479612610289664

View: https://twitter.com/us_spacecom/status/1588479612610289664

#USSPACECOM can confirm the People’s Republic of China Long March 5B #CZ5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere over the south-central Pacific Ocean at 4:01am MDT/10:01 UTC on 11/4. For details on the uncontrolled reentry’s impact location, we once again refer you to the #PRC.

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588532777313394688

View: https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1588532777313394688

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released this statement Friday regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket:

Once again, the People's Republic of China is taking unnecessary risks with the uncontrolled rocket stage reentry of their Long March 5B rocket stage. They did not share specific trajectory information which is needed to predict landing zones and reduce risk. This is the PRC's fourth uncontrolled reentry since May 2020, and each of these reentries have been the largest in last 30 years. It is critical that all spacefaring nations are responsible and transparent in their space activities and follow established best practices, especially, for the uncontrolled reentry of a large rocket body debris - debris that could very well result in major damage or loss of life.

 

[jeffb]

Chinese heavy lifter:
LTO: 27t
LEO: 70t

https://twitter.com/x/status/1569685819363033094

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1569685819363033094?t=FyyTuJlxhL_J1KelIjKWCw&s=19