The Chinese space programme

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The Chinese space

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- Wayne Asher 9 Jan 2014


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Next three Shenzhou missions

12 Oct 2005 Shenzhou 6 Two men flight in spacefor five days

25 Sept 2008 Shenzhou 7

Phase two of Project 921

First three person crew,first space walk

31 Oct 2011 Shenzhou 8

Un-manned mission todock twice with Tiangong-1 space laboratory


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Shenzhou 9

Three man crew

Launch 16 June 2012 First Chinese woman in spaceair force pilot Liu Yang

Docked with the Tiangong-1 space laboratory

Aboard Tiangong 1Liu Yangs firstnight shift


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Shenzhou 10

Launched from Jiuquan 11

June 2013

Two men, one womanmission lasting 15 days

Two male members werebackup on Shenzhou 9

Second docking withTiangong-1


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Shenzhou 10 crew after landing


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Space stations

Tiangong 2launch 2015 Three crew with 20 days life support. Length: 47 ft, Max diameter 14 ft, Weight 20 tons one-tenth of the size of the Skylab and Salyut stations of decades past

Tiangong 3launch ??? 22-ton core module, around 59 ft long a maximum diameter 14 ft Unaided 40-day habitability for three astronauts Test regenerative life-support technology, orbital replenishment of

propellant and air. Four spacecraft can dock simultaneously

Largemulti-module - space station around 2020

Tiangong 1- (heavenly palace)

Launched unmanned aboard a Long March 2F/G

Launch date September 2011; Weight = 8.5 ton


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Going to the moon - 1

Planning started 2004

Chang'e 1, 2007 Unmanned lunar orbiter

operated until 2009

intentionally impacted into Moon

produced most accurate and highest resolution 3-D map

of the moon surface

Chang'e 2, 2010

Conduct research from 100-km-high lunar orbit. Launched on Long March 3C

Went to EarthSun L2 Lagrange point, to test tracking / control network April 2012

Then began extended mission to the asteroid 4179 Toutatis. Successfully flybyDecember 2012


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Going to the moon 2

Change 3

2 December 2013 launch from Xichangsite

14 Decemberlanded in a 400km

widecrater onSinus Iridium plain First spacecraft to soft land on the

Moon since Luna 24 in 1976

Very sophisticated and media savvylaunch

Carries six-wheeled rover.Development began 2002 at theShanghai Aerospace SystemEngineering Institute


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Change 3 rover on the surface taken from lander


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Change 3 rover on the surface taken from lander


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Change 3 lander seen from rover


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A Manned landing ?

In June 2006, Long Lehao, deputy chief architect of the lunar probe project, set2024 as the date of China's first moonwalk

Putting a man on the moon involves a very complicated systematic program with

many technical challenges to solve, including those related to conducting spacewalks, docking, staying on the moon and returning. China won't carry out amanned moon landing until it masters all of these crucial technologies

- Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist for the lunar orbiter project

I've read reports by foreign media saying that China would carry a manned moonlanding in 2020, but I don't think there has been such a plan

- Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration


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Aims and objectives - long term

Achieve industrialisation and marketisation of space technology and applications

Set up multi-function and multi-orbit space infrastructure with various satellitesystems and set up a satellite ground application system

Establish manned spaceflight system and carry out manned spaceflightscientific research and technological experiments

Win more important place in the world in the field of space science with more

achievements and carry out explorations and studies of outer space

Source => China National Space Administration policy white paper


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Uphold scienceeradicate

superstition

Chinese poster of 1999

Uphold science


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Euroconsult 2009 space spending estimates (US $)

USA EU Russia Japan China India

48 7.8 3 2.8 2 0.9


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Long March 3B

Currently Chinas largest launch

vehicle

Maiden flight saw loss of Intelsat 708satellite

Now over 20 successful launches

Payload to Low Earth Orbit - 12,000kg (26,000 lb)

Saturn V Payload to Low Earth Orbit -120,000 Kg (260,000 lb)


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Infrastructure Four launch centresJiuquan (Gobi

Desert) , Taiyuan, Wenchang (HainanIsland), Xichang

Two control centresBeijing and Xian

Three Tianlian 1 data relay satellites,launched 2008-2010

Domestic tracking stations11 centres

International tracking: Karachi, (Pakistan),Malindi (Kenya), Swakopmund (Namibia)

plus shared facilities with France, Australia,Brazil, Sweden

Still eight to ten hours a day during whichChina cannot track in deep space


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- Wayne Asher 9 Jan 2014

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