CW.158.VIKING BOER – CHINA WATCH – China Just Landed On The Moon Space Station

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CW.158.VIKING BOER – CHINA WATCH – China Just Landed On The Moon Space Station

China Just Landed On The Moon Space Station | Shocking US Scientist

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FROM – Premiered Nov 27, 2022, CHINA
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China Just Landed On The Moon Space Station | Shocking US Scientist
China’s Moon Missions Shadow NASA Artemis’s Pace
These past months, NASA scrubbed the Artemis I uncrewed mission to the moon and back. Reportedly, the space agency will try again to launch the inaugural moon mission featuring the gargantuan Space Launch System (SLS) at the end of this month or sometime in October. Meanwhile, half a world away, China is progressing on its own step-by-step program to put both robotic and, eventually, crewed spacecraft on the lunar surface and keep pace with NASA-led achievements.

The next step, expected around 2024, is Chang’e-6: an unprecedented attempt to collect rock samples from the far side of the moon.

The mission will build on two recent major space achievements. In 2019, China became the first country to safely land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a hemisphere that cannot be seen from Earth—as the moon is tidally locked. The mission was made possible by a relay satellite out beyond the moon at Earth-moon Lagrange point 2, where it can bounce signals between Chang’e-4 and ground stations in China.

Chang’e-5 2020 performed the first sampling of lunar material in over four decades. The complex, four-spacecraft mission used an orbiter, lander, ascent vehicle, and return capsule to successfully deliver 1.731 grams of lunar rocks to Earth. The automated rendezvous and docking in the lunar orbit of the orbiter and ascent spacecraft was also seen as a test of the technology for getting astronauts off the moon and back to Earth.

Tiangong Chinese: ?? Tiangong; lit. ‘Palace in the Sky’officially the Tiangong space station (Chinese: pinyin: Tiangong kongjianzhàn), is a space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) in low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 km (210 and 280 mi) above the surface. Being China’s first long-term space station and the core of the “Third Step” of the China Manned Space Program, it has a mass between 90 and 100 t (200,000 and 220,000 lb), roughly one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station and about the size of the decommissioned Russian Mir space station.

The construction of the station is based on the experience gained from its precursors, Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 The first module, the Tianhe (“Harmony of the Heavens”) core module, was launched on 29 April 2021,[ followed by multiple crewed and uncrewed missions and two more laboratory cabin modules Wentian (“Quest for the Heavens”) launched on 24 July 2022 and Mengtian (“Dreaming of the Heavens”) launched on 31 October 2022. The research conducted on the station aims to improve researchers’ ability to conduct science experiments in space.
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