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Sino-American Space Race Watch Thread

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:26 pm
by Yuli Ban
Seems we might need this as well!

U.S.-China Space Race Takes Off As Beijing Announces Crewed Missions To Mars
China plans to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, the country’s lead rocket maker announced Thursday, part of the country’s ambitious plan to begin large-scale development of the Red Planet and ratcheting up tensions with the U.S. as the two race to become the Earth’s dominant power in space.
China intends to send crewed missions to Mars in 2033, 2035, 2037, 2041 and 2043, said Wang Xiaojun, the head of state-owned China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology during a conference.
Posts in this thread can be crossposted, but this is a thread for articles related to these two superpowers acting and reacting against each other in Earth's high-aerospace.

Re: Sino-American Space Race Watch Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 12:05 am
by raklian
Let's see if America's vaunted battle-tested capitalism will come to its rescue again. ;)

Re: Sino-American Space Race Watch Thread

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:39 pm
by caltrek
China and U.S. Developing Separate Plans to Deploy Rockets to Save the Earth from Asteroids
By Susan Hall
July 7, 2021

https://bbc-edition.com/space/2021/07/0 ... to-try-it/

Introduction:
(BBC) LIANGSHAN, CHINA – JULY 06: A Long March-3C rocket carrying a relay satellite Tianlian I-05 blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on July 6, 2021 in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province of China.

The endeavor is not an idea birthed from science fiction stories, as per Reuters. In fact, the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is also planning to prevent the dangers of Earth-hitting asteroids.

As such, the space agency conducted simulations on May 24 in an attempt to stop an asteroid the same size as Texas from wreaking havoc on our dear Earth.

Now China is also exerting effort to save the world from the dangers of asteroids. The National Space Science Center of China is initially sending their most enormous rockets to disrupt the direction of dangerous rocks away from our home planet.

The Chinese researchers also performed their simulation, which showed that a total of 23 Long March 5 rockets hitting an asteroid at the same time will be enough to change the route of the rock.

Re: Sino-American Space Race Watch Thread

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:54 pm
by caltrek
Special Space Plane Puts China Ahead of Competitors
by Dr. Theodore Karasik
December 4, 2023

Introduction:
(Eurasia Review) China’s ambitious and secretive space plane program is of great interest in terms of possibly filling a gap in low Earth orbit operations. China is using the development of its orbital test vehicle to outpace competitors in a specific strategic space. Given the current economic issues Beijing is facing, proceeding with the space plane appears to be a top priority.

The Chinese space plane is called Tengyun (cloud rider). Another name used is Chongfu Shiyong Shiyan Hangtian Qi. It is an experimental, reusable unmanned spacecraft and is in the early stages of its program, but it has much potential. Since the US thinks that China will surpass it in terms of space capacity by 2040, understanding this type of approach to space and its economy is important.

China is developing the Tengyun so that it can fly from runway to orbit and return to Earth at hypersonic speeds. The craft can be used up to 20 times. The hypersonic space plane boosts China to the forefront of the aerospace industry, eclipsing the capabilities of other competing systems. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is recruiting the best talent and using the best technology in the country’s aerospace field to support Tengyun.

China is keeping the orbital test vehicle a closely guarded secret. There have been only three known missions. In 2016, China constructed an enormous 5 km runway at the site later known as the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. Tengyun took off on Sept. 4, 2020, under unusually heavy secrecy compared with other recent Chinese space missions, which have been quite public, broadcast on television or the internet. On Sept. 6, China announced that the spacecraft had returned to a “scheduled landing site.” The two-day flight added a tremendous amount of momentum to the program. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation called the space plane flight a “complete success,” saying it “marks an important breakthrough” in China’s research into reusable spacecraft technology.
Read more here: https://www.eurasiareview.com/04122023 ... nalysis/