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2. Completion of the Beidou Global Navigation System, after a 26-year effort.
3. Launch of China’s first Mars mission. Its an ambitious 3-in-1 mission to orbit, land and rove on Mars. The spacecraft Tianwen-1 (天问一号) was successfully launched on Jul 23. After several course

adjustments, it is expected to reach Mars orbit on Feb 2021, to be followed about 2 to 3 months later by a soft landing and roving on the red planet.

4. The launch of a reusable spacecraft, which many speculate is a precursor to a reusable space plane.
5. An impressive Moon sample return mission which chalks up several firsts for Chinese space technology. The mission soft-lands a spacecraft on the moon, drills into and scoops on its surface to collect 2Kg

of the moon’s material, ascends from the moon, performs a completely automated rendezvous and docking in moon’s orbit and returns the collected moon sample safely back to earth. This completes the three-stage moon explorations of orbit, land and
return for the Chinese Space Program.

6. Successful launch of a new member of the Long March family LM-8.

2020 has been another fruitful year for Chinese Space. The mission to Mars marks the furthest reach of Chinese space exploration while the successful completion of the moon sample return mission scores

several firsts in space technology.

Chinese Space ends 2020 with the launch of the latest member of its Long March family of rockets the LM-8. It successfully carries five satellites into orbit.

Though the moon-sample return mission is not the last one of the year, it nevertheless provides a fitting grand finale to Chinese Space 2020.

What’s in Chinese Space for 2021?
Forget about 2021. The Chinese are planning two years ahead in one go.

Completion of Mars missions. Construction of space station. More satellites launches. Further progress in private space enterprise.

It will be a busy two years ahead with a total of 11 launches related to the space station alone. The core module to be launched within first half of 2021. There will be 4 crewed and 4 cargo flights to the

space station.

Chinese Space 2021/22: https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1210341.shtml
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_plans_to_launch_four_manned_spacecraft_in_next_two_years_999.html

In 2021, the most anticipated event in Chinese Space would be the landing and roving on Mars. If successful, this would be a Great Leap Forward for Chinese space exploration.

Here’s wishing China a “Mission Accomplished” in its first Mars mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTbcawI0LA

Another launch for a remote sensing satellite. This makes it 39 for the whole year.

Its February 2021. An exciting month for space exploration. Its the month of Mars. Probes of three missions to Mars which began in last July will rendezvous with the Red Planet. After that, each will seek its

own accomplishment. The UAE probe will only orbit the planet. The Chinese probe will first orbit for a couple of months to determine a suitable landing site, before proceeding to land and rove on the planet. The American probe, armed with sufficient
information on its pre-determined landing site, will go straight for landing and roving.

https://www.space.com/uae-mars-hope-mission-ready-for-arrival

https://spacenews.com/nasa-prepares-for-mars-2020-landing/

https://www.space.com/china-tianwen-1-mars-orbit-insertion-february-2021

Best wishes to all!

Looks like New Zealand is stealing a march on the big pioneers of space exploration. It is going to space on a plane which can take-off from a civilian airport, like an ordinary airplane.

https://www.space.com/dawn-aerospace-space-plane-new-zealand-airport

Space travel for ordinary folks is not too far away.

First picture of Mars from Tianwen-1, taken from a distance of 2.2M Km.
www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2021-02/05/c_1127070777.htm

4th course correction completed, further ensuring orbit capture which will occur around 10th Feb.

Tianwen-1 has entered Mars orbit. https://www.space.com/china-first-mars-mission-tianwen-1-enters-orbit

The latest successful landing and deployment of the Perseverance rover on Mars is taking over US top leadership by storm.

President Biden went hyperbole over it. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised it in the meeting with the Chinese, touting it as proof of the US ability to reinvent itself. Has the success of the mission not

been over-hyped?

Several of such a mission have been successful before. The landing technique, using parachute and sky crane, has been proven to work in previous missions. Only the rover is more advanced and capable than its

predecessors.

Why such hype over it? President Biden says it all. The US reputation in the world has gone so low that it is hungry for success. And this Mars mission has delivered.

Will the Chinese leadership be as excited if their Mars landing is successful? Answer coming in May or June.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-exchanged-data-with-china-on-mars-orbiters/

The Chinese have exchanged orbital data of their Mars spacecraft with the Americans. What are the Americans up to? The claim that the data is necessary in order to reduce the possibility of collision. But why now, only

after the US Perseverance has successfully landed and the Chinese landing date is approaching?

The Americans have intentions to thwart the successful completion of the Chinese Mars mission. This is not just about competition. Its much more than that. This Chinese mission, if successful, will be a Great Leap

Forward for Chinese space exploration and will put the Chinese almost on par with the Americans in the exploration of Mars. And they will all be happening close to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Its too hard and too
much for the Americans to swallow. What Prez. Biden said recently would be most appropriate in this case - "Its not going to happen. Not on my watch".

The Americans will use the orbital data to jeopardise the success of the Chinese Mars mission. When their mission failed, the Chinese will regretfully say this :"We have overestimated Americans.", as they said in the

recent Alaska meeting.

But by then it will be too late.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/01/opinions/china-space-race-us-spacex-berger/index.html

China to build its fifth Space Launch Center at Ningbo, Zhejiang. to meet the demand of commercial satellites launches.
https://tech.huanqiu.com/article/42e9kPHJpOO

The core module of the Chinese space station has been placed in orbit. Another 10 more missions, manned and unmanned, are required to complete the station.
Meanwhile, the date for the Mars landing is approaching nearer, probably between mid-May and June.

A spent stage of the rocket from the launch of the space station is falling back to earth. Another opportunity for those anti-China skunks to disparage China. They have generated so many fake news about the threat from the

falling rocket. Read a more truthful piece from someone in the know.

https://www.space.com/china-rocket-falling-from-space-dont-worry

Let those skunks be. The Chinese should concentrate on their next great achievement in space - landing the Tianwen-1 on Mars. Its getting nearer.

The Chinese have made it！ Tianwen-1 has landed on Mars! Waiting to see the surrounding views of the landing site taken by the lander's camera.
Next will come the roving. Waiting to see the lander and rover taking a picture of each other.

Has the Chinese really landed on Mars? Basing the claim of a successful landing merely on telemetry data is fraud with danger. Will they release the video of the landing recorded by on-board camera as was done for those moon landing

missions?

Mission Accomplished!

One part of a spacecraft from Red China is orbiting the red planet, another is standing firmly on its ground, yet another is roving on its surface. All these happening on the 100th anniversary year of the founding of the Communist Party

of Red China.

How more red can Mars be? The red planet is now truly red! But it can't be more red than the faces of those Americans flushing with anger at China's success.

---------

The big disappointment for Americans is that the booster rocket falling back to Earth didn't kill anyone. They were hoping and praying hard for it to happen.

Wakalukong

Yes, they are always hoping for the worse for the Chinese space program. But the Chinese always disappoint them.
Latest images from the Chinese Mars Mission. The image of the lander and rover side-by-side is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFF_8haJXI

Next mission, on 17th June, a manned flight to the Chinese space station. All the way, man！

Here's another video of the rover and lander. Nearer the end of the video, its shows how the camera was dropped from the underbelly of the rover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOABggkMyug

But after dropping off the camera, the rover has to drive up the slope to its final position. No trace of the wheel track leading to that. Puzzled.

First nation to land a spacecraft on the farside of the moon. Brought back a sample from the moon.
First nation to orbit, land and rove on Mars in first attempt.
Space station on the way to completion. Come 2024/25, it may be the only space station in operation.

Chinese space program is awesome!

But success will bring its own problems. Two come to mind.
.
1.Now that the space program has gained national and international prestige, decision makers will be more risk averse.

2. It will attract people who wants to join the space program not for the love of it but for the fame and glory it can bring them.

Harvesting sun energy from space. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3145237/china-aims-use-space-based-solar-energy-station-harvest-suns

Kilometer-long spacecraft, anyone? https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1232426.shtml

This past week, Chinese rockets have been shooting up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain (雨后春笋). The total for the year so far has shot past 40. The total for the Long March series of rockets is 396. One and a quarter month to go before

end of year. Not surprising if total launches for the year is nearly 50 and the total for the LM series is beyond 400. Then again, it may be because its been rather quiet for the space station. Once activities there pick up, rockets launches may be
reduced. Let's see.

About China's latest hypersonic test. In the West, it has the militarists jump up from their seats.

This is a reusable spacecraft, a better alternative to Elon Musk's recovery of spent rockets. The spacecraft is launched vertically from a tower like a rocket, may even take-off from a runway like a plane. During its sub-orbital flight, it will

release one or more loads, satellites for example, and then it will return to earth. This is a much less expensive way to launch satellites than it is now, Musk method included.

But the militarists only consider the case of the load being a missile. May be they want to get more funding from their government.

2021 is another fruitful year for Chinese space exploration when rockets shoot up to the sky like bamboo shoots from the ground after a spring rain (雨后春笋).
There are a total of 55 launches, with 3 failures, for the year.
It also marks the 405th launch of the Long March series of rockets

There are two big accomplishments:
1. Mission to orbit, land and rove on Mars
2. Beginning of the construction of the space station with the launching of the main module followed by two crewed missions

2022 is expected to surpass 2021 in the number of launches. It will also witness the completeness of the space station.

Chinese achievements in space exploration is getting more and more impressive by the year. China is now an established space-faring nation.

Plan for Chinese Space 2022 is out.

Six missions to complete the Space Station - two cargo, two crewed and one each for the two labs.
LM-8
Sea-based launches.

In total, there will be more than 50 launches.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLoBffubdc

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For the whole of 2020, China carries out a total of 38 launches. But this is blemished by 4 failures, 2 of which happen within a month.

Major accomplishments of the year.
1. Test-out of new crew capsule for manned missions with a successful launch followed by a recovery back on earth. This capsule will ferry astronauts to-and-fro earth and the upcoming space station.
2. Completion of the Beidou Global Navigation System, after a 26-year effort.
3. Launch of China’s first Mars mission. Its an ambitious 3-in-1 mission to orbit, land and rove on Mars. The spacecraft Tianwen-1 (天问一号) was successfully launched on Jul 23. After several

course adjustments, it is expected to reach Mars orbit on Feb 2021, to be followed about 2 to 3 months later by a soft landing and roving on the red planet.

4. The launch of a reusable spacecraft, which many speculate is a precursor to a reusable space plane.
5. An impressive Moon sample return mission which chalks up several firsts for Chinese space technology. The mission soft-lands a spacecraft on the moon, drills into and scoops on its surface to collect

2Kg of the moon’s material, ascends from the moon, performs a completely automated rendezvous and docking in moon’s orbit and returns the collected moon sample safely back to earth. This completes the three-stage moon explorations of orbit, land and
return for the Chinese Space Program.

6. Successful launch of a new member of the Long March family LM-8.

2020 has been another fruitful year for Chinese Space. The mission to Mars marks the furthest reach of Chinese space exploration while the successful completion of the moon sample return mission scores

several firsts in space technology.

Chinese Space ends 2020 with the launch of the latest member of its Long March family of rockets the LM-8. It successfully carries five satellites into orbit.

Though the moon-sample return mission is not the last one of the year, it nevertheless provides a fitting grand finale to Chinese Space 2020.

What’s in Chinese Space for 2021?
Forget about 2021. The Chinese are planning two years ahead in one go.

Completion of Mars missions. Construction of space station.
More satellites launches. Further progress in private space enterprise.

It will be a busy two years ahead with a total of 11 launches related to the space station alone. The core module to be launched within first half of 2021. There will be 4 crewed and 4 cargo flights to

the space station.

Chinese Space 2021/22: https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1210341.shtml
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_plans_to_launch_four_manned_spacecraft_in_next_two_years_999.html

In 2021, the most anticipated event in Chinese Space would be the landing and roving on Mars. If successful, this would be a Great Leap Forward for Chinese space exploration.

Here’s wishing China a “Mission Accomplished” in its first Mars mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTbcawI0LA

Another launch for a remote sensing satellite. This makes it 39 for the whole year.

Its February 2021. An exciting month for space exploration. Its the month of Mars. Probes of three missions to Mars which began in last July will rendezvous with the Red Planet. After that, each will seek its

own accomplishment. The UAE probe will only orbit the planet. The Chinese probe will first orbit for a couple of months to determine a suitable landing site, before proceeding to land and rove on the planet. The American probe, armed with sufficient
information on its pre-determined landing site, will go straight for landing and roving.

https://www.space.com/uae-mars-hope-mission-ready-for-arrival

https://spacenews.com/nasa-prepares-for-mars-2020-landing/

https://www.space.com/china-tianwen-1-mars-orbit-insertion-february-2021

Best wishes to all!

Looks like New Zealand is stealing a march on the big pioneers of space exploration. It is going to space on a plane which can take-off from a civilian airport, like an ordinary airplane.

https://www.space.com/dawn-aerospace-space-plane-new-zealand-airport

Space travel for ordinary folks is not too far away.

First picture of Mars from Tianwen-1, taken from a distance of 2.2M Km.
www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2021-02/05/c_1127070777.htm

4th course correction completed, further ensuring orbit capture which will occur around 10th Feb.

Tianwen-1 has entered Mars orbit. https://www.space.com/china-first-mars-mission-tianwen-1-enters-orbit

The latest successful landing and deployment of the Perseverance rover on Mars is taking over US top leadership by storm.

President Biden went hyperbole over it. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised it in the meeting with the Chinese, touting it as proof of the US ability to reinvent itself. Has the success of the mission not

been over-hyped?

Several of such a mission have been successful before. The landing technique, using parachute and sky crane, has been proven to work in previous missions. Only the rover is more advanced and capable than its

predecessors.

Why such hype over it? President Biden says it all. The US reputation in the world has gone so low that it is hungry for success. And this Mars mission has delivered.

Will the Chinese leadership be as excited if their Mars landing is successful? Answer coming in May or June.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-exchanged-data-with-china-on-mars-orbiters/

The Chinese have exchanged orbital data of their Mars spacecraft with the Americans. What are the Americans up to? The claim that the data is necessary in order to reduce the possibility of collision. But why now, only

after the US Perseverance has successfully landed and the Chinese landing date is approaching?

The Americans have intentions to thwart the successful completion of the Chinese Mars mission. This is not just about competition. Its much more than that. This Chinese mission, if successful, will be a Great Leap

Forward for Chinese space exploration and will put the Chinese almost on par with the Americans in the exploration of Mars. And they will all be happening close to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Its too hard and too
much for the Americans to swallow. What Prez. Biden said recently would be most appropriate in this case - "Its not going to happen. Not on my watch".

The Americans will use the orbital data to jeopardise the success of the Chinese Mars mission. When their mission failed, the Chinese will regretfully say this :"We have overestimated Americans.", as they said in the

recent Alaska meeting.

But by then it will be too late.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/01/opinions/china-space-race-us-spacex-berger/index.html

China to build its fifth Space Launch Center at Ningbo, Zhejiang. to meet the demand of commercial satellites launches.
https://tech.huanqiu.com/article/42e9kPHJpOO

The core module of the Chinese space station has been placed in orbit. Another 10 more missions, manned and unmanned, are required to complete the station.
Meanwhile, the date for the Mars landing is approaching nearer, probably between mid-May and June.

A spent stage of the rocket from the launch of the space station is falling back to earth. Another opportunity for those anti-China skunks to disparage China. They have generated so many fake news about the threat from the

falling rocket. Read a more truthful piece from someone in the know.

https://www.space.com/china-rocket-falling-from-space-dont-worry

Let those skunks be. The Chinese should concentrate on their next great achievement in space - landing the Tianwen-1 on Mars. Its getting nearer.

The Chinese have made it！ Tianwen-1 has landed on Mars! Waiting to see the surrounding views of the landing site taken by the lander's camera.
Next will come the roving. Waiting to see the lander and rover taking a picture of each other.

Has the Chinese really landed on Mars? Basing the claim of a successful landing merely on telemetry data is fraud with danger. Will they release the video of the landing recorded by on-board camera as was done for those moon landing

missions?

Mission Accomplished!

One part of a spacecraft from Red China is orbiting the red planet, another is standing firmly on its ground, yet another is roving on its surface. All these happening on the 100th anniversary year of the founding of the Communist

Party of Red China.

How more red can Mars be? The red planet is now truly red! But it can't be more red than the faces of those Americans flushing with anger at China's success.

---------

The big disappointment for Americans is that the booster rocket falling back to Earth didn't kill anyone. They were hoping and praying hard for it to happen.

Wakalukong

Yes, they are always hoping for the worse for the Chinese space program. But the Chinese always disappoint them.
Latest images from the Chinese Mars Mission. The image of the lander and rover side-by-side is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFF_8haJXI

Next mission, on 17th June, a manned flight to the Chinese space station. All the way, man！

Here's another video of the rover and lander. Nearer the end of the video, its shows how the camera was dropped from the underbelly of the rover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOABggkMyug

But after dropping off the camera, the rover has to drive up the slope to its final position. No trace of the wheel track leading to that. Puzzled.

First nation to land a spacecraft on the farside of the moon. Brought back a sample from the moon.
First nation to orbit, land and rove on Mars in first attempt. Space station on the way to completion. Come 2024/25, it may be the only space station in operation.

Chinese space program is awesome!

But success will bring its own problems. Two come to mind.
.
1.Now that the space program has gained national and international prestige, decision makers will be more risk averse.

2. It will attract people who wants to join the space program not for the love of it but for the fame and glory it can bring them.

Harvesting sun energy from space. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3145237/china-aims-use-space-based-solar-energy-station-harvest-suns

Kilometer-long spacecraft, anyone? https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1232426.shtml

This past week, Chinese rockets have been shooting up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain (雨后春笋). The total for the year so far has shot past 40. The total for the Long March series of rockets is 396. One and a quarter month to go

before end of year. Not surprising if total launches for the year is nearly 50 and the total for the LM series is beyond 400. Then again, it may be because its been rather quiet for the space station. Once activities there pick up, rockets launches may
be reduced. Let's see.

About China's latest hypersonic test. In the West, it has the militarists jump up from their seats.

This is a reusable spacecraft, a better alternative to Elon Musk's recovery of spent rockets. The spacecraft is launched vertically from a tower like a rocket, may even take-off from a runway like a plane. During its sub-orbital flight, it will

release one or more loads, satellites for example, and then it will return to earth. This is a much less expensive way to launch satellites than it is now, Musk method included.

But the militarists only consider the case of the load being a missile. May be they want to get more funding from their government.

2021 is another fruitful year for Chinese space exploration when rockets shoot up to the sky like bamboo shoots from the ground after a spring rain (雨后春笋).
There are a total of 55 launches, with 3 failures, for the year.
It also marks the 405th launch of the Long March series of rockets

There are two big accomplishments:
1. Mission to orbit, land and rove on Mars
2. Beginning of the construction of the space station with the launching of the main module followed by two crewed missions

2022 is expected to surpass 2021 in the number of launches. It will also witness the completeness of the space station.

Chinese achievements in space exploration is getting more and more impressive by the year. China is now an established space-faring nation.

Plan for Chinese Space 2022 is out.

Six missions to complete the Space Station - two cargo, two crewed and one each for the two labs.
LM-8
Sea-based launches.

In total, there will be more than 50 launches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLoBffubdc

2022 is another stellar year for Chinese Space.

Chinese Space ends the year with a satellite launch on 29th Dec. This makes a total of 64 launches for the whole year. All Long March rockets are launched successfully. There are new models of rockets, sea launches, reusable spacecraft, experimental
satellites. On Dec 14, Chinese private rocket company LandSpace launched the ZhuQue-2 (朱雀-2). The launch fails to deploy its payload when the first and second stage of the rocket fails to separate properly. Yet this launch catches wide
international attention because its first stage, which works properly, is a methane-fueled rocket engine. The Chinese have successfully deployed the world’s first methane-fueled rocket engine.

Chinese Space is advancing with increasing capabilities. More notable is the rise of commercial space enterprises with increasing capabilities.

The biggest achievement for Chinese Space 2022 is the completion of the Chinese Space Station(CSS). The most impressive event of Chinese Space 2022 is when a total of 6 Chinese astronauts, 3 each from 2 different missions, assembles for a group photo
with their thumbs up, inside the CSS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGZccgO1yY


The Chinese Moon rover Yutu 2 is still roving on the dark side of the moon after working close to 4 years. The Chinese Mars rover is still roving on the plain of Utopia Planatia on the Red Planet after more than one-and-half year.

Chinese Space achievements bring no praise but envy and phobia from the Americans. When a rocket-launched reusable spacecraft releases a load in space and returns landing on a normal airplane runway, the Chinese are accused of developing space weapons
which can penetrate US air defences. Chinese Space has to endure a lot of out-of-this-world accusations from the Americans, most notably from NASA and its chief Bill Nelson. First he accuses China of wanting to steal the moon from other earthlings.
Next he demands that there should be an American on board the CSS and the Chinese should use the English language to be international.

What an arrogant and ignorant chauvinist and racist. Until recently, the English-language had little to no role in rocketry and space exploration. The Germans were the pioneers of modern day rocketry with their V1 and V2 rockets developed during WW2.
Both Americans and Russians stole German technology after the War to start their own space programs.

The first language spoken in space was not English but Russian. The first language spoken in the first spacestation ever built by humans was Russian too.

He should not forget that the Chinese have successfully built their own spacestation after being banned from the US-led ISS. Yet he expects the Chinese to use English in their own spacestation.

NASA had gone to great extend to prevent Western astronauts from speaking Mandarin in the CSS. A female Italian astronaut was learning Mandarin to prepare herself for a working trip to the CSS. To prevent this from happening, ISS astronauts schedule
was modified to allow the Italian to jump queue. She was able to visit the ISS ahead of others in the waiting list. In this way she earned a trip in space without having to speak Mandarin.But to the disappointment of NASA, before her return to Earth,
she posted a Chinese poetry online from space.


Expect another stellar year for Chinese Space in 2023.

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2020 also marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Chinese Space Program. On 24 Apr 1970, China launched its first satellite Dong Fang Hong 东方红 (The East is Red ). That day is now

commemorated as China Space Day annually. That satellite, though not functioning, continues to orbit the earth to this day.

For the whole of 2020, China carries out a total of 38 launches. But this is blemished by 4 failures, 2 of which happen within a month.

Major accomplishments of the year.
1. Test-out of new crew capsule for manned missions with a successful launch followed by a recovery back on earth. This capsule will ferry astronauts to-and-fro earth and the upcoming space station.
2. Completion of the Beidou Global Navigation System, after a 26-year effort.
3. Launch of China’s first Mars mission. Its an ambitious 3-in-1 mission to orbit, land and rove on Mars. The spacecraft Tianwen-1 (天问一号) was successfully launched on Jul 23. After several

course adjustments, it is expected to reach Mars orbit on Feb 2021, to be followed about 2 to 3 months later by a soft landing and roving on the red planet.

4. The launch of a reusable spacecraft, which many speculate is a precursor to a reusable space plane.
5. An impressive Moon sample return mission which chalks up several firsts for Chinese space technology. The mission soft-lands a spacecraft on the moon, drills into and scoops on its surface to collect

2Kg of the moon’s material, ascends from the moon, performs a completely automated rendezvous and docking in moon’s orbit and returns the collected moon sample safely back to earth. This completes the three-stage moon explorations of orbit, land and
return for the Chinese Space Program.

6. Successful launch of a new member of the Long March family LM-8.

2020 has been another fruitful year for Chinese Space. The mission to Mars marks the furthest reach of Chinese space exploration while the successful completion of the moon sample return mission scores

several firsts in space technology.

Chinese Space ends 2020 with the launch of the latest member of its Long March family of rockets the LM-8. It successfully carries five satellites into orbit.

Though the moon-sample return mission is not the last one of the year, it nevertheless provides a fitting grand finale to Chinese Space 2020.

What’s in Chinese Space for 2021?
Forget about 2021. The Chinese are planning two years ahead in one go.

Completion of Mars missions.
Construction of space station.
More satellites launches. Further progress in private space enterprise.

It will be a busy two years ahead with a total of 11 launches related to the space station alone. The core module to be launched within first half of 2021. There will be 4 crewed and 4 cargo flights to

the space station.

Chinese Space 2021/22: https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1210341.shtml
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_plans_to_launch_four_manned_spacecraft_in_next_two_years_999.html

In 2021, the most anticipated event in Chinese Space would be the landing and roving on Mars. If successful, this would be a Great Leap Forward for Chinese space exploration.

Here’s wishing China a “Mission Accomplished” in its first Mars mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTbcawI0LA

Another launch for a remote sensing satellite. This makes it 39 for the whole year.

Its February 2021. An exciting month for space exploration. Its the month of Mars. Probes of three missions to Mars which began in last July will rendezvous with the Red Planet. After that, each will seek

its own accomplishment. The UAE probe will only orbit the planet. The Chinese probe will first orbit for a couple of months to determine a suitable landing site, before proceeding to land and rove on the planet. The American probe, armed with sufficient
information on its pre-determined landing site, will go straight for landing and roving.

https://www.space.com/uae-mars-hope-mission-ready-for-arrival

https://spacenews.com/nasa-prepares-for-mars-2020-landing/

https://www.space.com/china-tianwen-1-mars-orbit-insertion-february-2021

Best wishes to all!

Looks like New Zealand is stealing a march on the big pioneers of space exploration. It is going to space on a plane which can take-off from a civilian airport, like an ordinary airplane.

https://www.space.com/dawn-aerospace-space-plane-new-zealand-airport

Space travel for ordinary folks is not too far away.

First picture of Mars from Tianwen-1, taken from a distance of 2.2M Km.
www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2021-02/05/c_1127070777.htm

4th course correction completed, further ensuring orbit capture which will occur around 10th Feb.

Tianwen-1 has entered Mars orbit. https://www.space.com/china-first-mars-mission-tianwen-1-enters-orbit

The latest successful landing and deployment of the Perseverance rover on Mars is taking over US top leadership by storm.

President Biden went hyperbole over it. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised it in the meeting with the Chinese, touting it as proof of the US ability to reinvent itself. Has the success of the mission

not been over-hyped?

Several of such a mission have been successful before. The landing technique, using parachute and sky crane, has been proven to work in previous missions. Only the rover is more advanced and capable than its

predecessors.

Why such hype over it? President Biden says it all. The US reputation in the world has gone so low that it is hungry for success. And this Mars mission has delivered.

Will the Chinese leadership be as excited if their Mars landing is successful? Answer coming in May or June.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-exchanged-data-with-china-on-mars-orbiters/

The Chinese have exchanged orbital data of their Mars spacecraft with the Americans. What are the Americans up to? The claim that the data is necessary in order to reduce the possibility of collision. But why now,

only after the US Perseverance has successfully landed and the Chinese landing date is approaching?

The Americans have intentions to thwart the successful completion of the Chinese Mars mission. This is not just about competition. Its much more than that. This Chinese mission, if successful, will be a Great Leap

Forward for Chinese space exploration and will put the Chinese almost on par with the Americans in the exploration of Mars. And they will all be happening close to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Its too hard and too
much for the Americans to swallow. What Prez. Biden said recently would be most appropriate in this case - "Its not going to happen. Not on my watch".

The Americans will use the orbital data to jeopardise the success of the Chinese Mars mission. When their mission failed, the Chinese will regretfully say this :"We have overestimated Americans.", as they said in the

recent Alaska meeting.

But by then it will be too late.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/01/opinions/china-space-race-us-spacex-berger/index.html

China to build its fifth Space Launch Center at Ningbo, Zhejiang. to meet the demand of commercial satellites launches.
https://tech.huanqiu.com/article/42e9kPHJpOO

The core module of the Chinese space station has been placed in orbit. Another 10 more missions, manned and unmanned, are required to complete the station.
Meanwhile, the date for the Mars landing is approaching nearer, probably between mid-May and June.

A spent stage of the rocket from the launch of the space station is falling back to earth. Another opportunity for those anti-China skunks to disparage China. They have generated so many fake news about the threat from the

falling rocket. Read a more truthful piece from someone in the know.

https://www.space.com/china-rocket-falling-from-space-dont-worry

Let those skunks be. The Chinese should concentrate on their next great achievement in space - landing the Tianwen-1 on Mars. Its getting nearer.

The Chinese have made it！ Tianwen-1 has landed on Mars! Waiting to see the surrounding views of the landing site taken by the lander's camera.
Next will come the roving. Waiting to see the lander and rover taking a picture of each other.

Has the Chinese really landed on Mars? Basing the claim of a successful landing merely on telemetry data is fraud with danger. Will they release the video of the landing recorded by on-board camera as was done for those moon

landing missions?

Mission Accomplished!

One part of a spacecraft from Red China is orbiting the red planet, another is standing firmly on its ground, yet another is roving on its surface. All these happening on the 100th anniversary year of the founding of the Communist

Party of Red China.

How more red can Mars be? The red planet is now truly red! But it can't be more red than the faces of those Americans flushing with anger at China's success.

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The big disappointment for Americans is that the booster rocket falling back to Earth didn't kill anyone. They were hoping and praying hard for it to happen.

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Yes, they are always hoping for the worse for the Chinese space program. But the Chinese always disappoint them.
Latest images from the Chinese Mars Mission. The image of the lander and rover side-by-side is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFF_8haJXI

Next mission, on 17th June, a manned flight to the Chinese space station. All the way, man！

Here's another video of the rover and lander. Nearer the end of the video, its shows how the camera was dropped from the underbelly of the rover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOABggkMyug

But after dropping off the camera, the rover has to drive up the slope to its final position. No trace of the wheel track leading to that. Puzzled.

First nation to land a spacecraft on the farside of the moon. Brought back a sample from the moon.
First nation to orbit, land and rove on Mars in first attempt. Space station on the way to completion. Come 2024/25, it may be the only space station in operation.

Chinese space program is awesome!

But success will bring its own problems. Two come to mind.
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1.Now that the space program has gained national and international prestige, decision makers will be more risk averse.

2. It will attract people who wants to join the space program not for the love of it but for the fame and glory it can bring them.

Harvesting sun energy from space. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3145237/china-aims-use-space-based-solar-energy-station-harvest-suns

Kilometer-long spacecraft, anyone? https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1232426.shtml

This past week, Chinese rockets have been shooting up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain (雨后春笋). The total for the year so far has shot past 40. The total for the Long March series of rockets is 396. One and a quarter month to go

before end of year. Not surprising if total launches for the year is nearly 50 and the total for the LM series is beyond 400. Then again, it may be because its been rather quiet for the space station. Once activities there pick up, rockets launches may
be reduced. Let's see.

About China's latest hypersonic test. In the West, it has the militarists jump up from their seats.

This is a reusable spacecraft, a better alternative to Elon Musk's recovery of spent rockets. The spacecraft is launched vertically from a tower like a rocket, may even take-off from a runway like a plane. During its sub-orbital flight, it will

release one or more loads, satellites for example, and then it will return to earth. This is a much less expensive way to launch satellites than it is now, Musk method included.

But the militarists only consider the case of the load being a missile. May be they want to get more funding from their government.

2021 is another fruitful year for Chinese space exploration when rockets shoot up to the sky like bamboo shoots from the ground after a spring rain (雨后春笋).
There are a total of 55 launches, with 3 failures, for the year.
It also marks the 405th launch of the Long March series of rockets

There are two big accomplishments:
1. Mission to orbit, land and rove on Mars
2. Beginning of the construction of the space station with the launching of the main module followed by two crewed missions

2022 is expected to surpass 2021 in the number of launches. It will also witness the completeness of the space station.

Chinese achievements in space exploration is getting more and more impressive by the year. China is now an established space-faring nation.

Plan for Chinese Space 2022 is out.

Six missions to complete the Space Station - two cargo, two crewed and one each for the two labs.
LM-8
Sea-based launches.

In total, there will be more than 50 launches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLoBffubdc

2022 is another stellar year for Chinese Space.

Chinese Space ends the year with a satellite launch on 29th Dec. This makes a total of 64 launches for the whole year. All Long March rockets are launched successfully. There are new models of rockets, sea launches, reusable spacecraft, experimental

satellites. On Dec 14, Chinese private rocket company LandSpace launched the ZhuQue-2 (朱雀-2). The launch fails to deploy its payload when the first and second stage of the rocket fails to separate properly. Yet this launch catches wide international
attention because its first stage, which works properly, is a methane-fueled rocket engine. The Chinese have successfully deployed the world’s first methane-fueled rocket engine.

Chinese Space is advancing with increasing capabilities. More notable is the rise of commercial space enterprises with increasing capabilities.

The biggest achievement for Chinese Space 2022 is the completion of the Chinese Space Station(CSS). The most impressive event of Chinese Space 2022 is when a total of 6 Chinese astronauts, 3 each from 2 different missions, assembles for a group photo

with their thumbs up, inside the CSS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGZccgO1yY

The Chinese Moon rover Yutu 2 is still roving on the dark side of the moon after working close to 4 years. The Chinese Mars rover is still roving on the plain of Utopia Planatia on the Red Planet after more than one-and-half year.

Chinese Space achievements bring no praise but envy and phobia from the Americans. When a rocket-launched reusable spacecraft releases a load in space and returns landing on a normal airplane runway, the Chinese are accused of developing space weapons

which can penetrate US air defences. Chinese Space has to endure a lot of out-of-this-world accusations from the Americans, most notably from NASA and its chief Bill Nelson. First he accuses China of wanting to steal the moon from other earthlings. Next
he demands that there should be an American on board the CSS and the Chinese should use the English language to be international.

What an arrogant and ignorant chauvinist and racist. Until recently, the English-language had little to no role in rocketry and space exploration. The Germans were the pioneers of modern day rocketry with their V1 and V2 rockets developed during WW2.

Both Americans and Russians stole German technology after the War to start their own space programs.

The first language spoken in space was not English but Russian. The first language spoken in the first spacestation ever built by humans was Russian too.

He should not forget that the Chinese have successfully built their own spacestation after being banned from the US-led ISS. Yet he expects the Chinese to use English in their own spacestation.

NASA had gone to great extend to prevent Western astronauts from speaking Mandarin in the CSS. A female Italian astronaut was learning Mandarin to prepare herself for a working trip to the CSS. To prevent this from happening, ISS astronauts schedule

was modified to allow the Italian to jump queue. She was able to visit the ISS ahead of others in the waiting list. In this way she earned a trip in space without having to speak Mandarin.But to the disappointment of NASA, before her return to Earth, she
posted a Chinese poetry online from space.

Expect another stellar year for Chinese Space in 2023.

NASA Chief Bill Nelson interview with Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/01/we-better-watch-out-nasa-boss-sounds-alarm-on-chinese-moon-ambitions-00075803


NASA Chief Bill Nelson is talking rubbish again. He should open his slitty eyes wider, if he can, to see the truth.

The US is founded on land grabbed from American Natives. Since then, Americans' Conqueror mentality has not changed. Americans continue to live with the ambition to conquer. This is extending to outer space.

To Americans, outer space is a vast infinite territory to be conquered. They want the whole universe for themselves. Other people exploring space are to be treated as hostile competitors to be fought off. The US has established a Space Force and Space
Command for this purpose.

The next phase of the US Space Program will be about the Colonissation of Space. Wherever the Americans can land, be it on Moon or Mars, that would automatically become US territory. A base station will be established with its Space Force, commanded
from earth. No other spacecraft can approach within striking range of its Space Force from the base station. That's being American.

China has a more humane approach. The Chinese believe in co-operation and sharing. The Americans believe in competition and winner-grabs-all. Who would be better earthlings and space explorers?

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