Using the most powerful rocket, China carries out a daring space mission: ‘One arrow lowers the waves’?

Tram Ho

At the end of January 2022, China released its fifth white paper on its space program – outlining its goals, to demonstrate its ambition to become the number one space power.

Not only setting up plans to develop the most powerful space rocket in history (Long March 9), not only aiming to build a Moon Research Station where people live, not only sending Mars landers to search signs of life… China has been doing the missions that both the US and Europe are pursuing.

 

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Most recently, on September 23, 2022, Space.com reported that China was planning an ambitious plan to ‘mostly send down the waves’ when simultaneously launching two spacecraft to Jupiter and Uranus around the year. 2030.

This mission will be named Tianwen 4. At that time, astronomers will see a larger probe for Jupiter and a smaller spacecraft will be sent to make a flight to distant Uranus in the Solar System.

This pair of spacecraft will be launched on the Long March 5 rocket. Currently, the Long March 5 rocket is China’s most powerful space rocket.

EXPLORE JOINT STOCK

Earlier, China announced that it was in the planning stages for a mission to explore Jupiter. The new details were presented by Wang Qiong of the Center for Space Engineering and Lunar Exploration under the China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the 2022 International Astronautical Congress in Paris (France) ) on September 21, 2022.

Accordingly, the main spacecraft will be dedicated to investigating the Jupiter system and will eventually enter orbit around the moon Callisto (of Jupiter) to investigate in detail the outermost layer of the moons in the moon. group of Galileo satellites (consisting of the 4 largest natural moons/satellites of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto).

DISCOVER THE STAR OF THIEN VUUUUUUUUUUUU

According to Wang Qiong, the smaller spacecraft, which will weigh a few hundred kilograms, will make a longer trip to Uranus.

“Scientific goals are still under consideration,” Wang Qiong told Space.com after the presentation. Previous presentations indicate that China is focusing on the moon Callisto as a primary target that could reveal much about the moon and the history of the Jovian System, or investigate Jupiter’s unusual moons can provide insight into the early days by itself.

[Jovian System: With a total of 79 known moons – including 4 large moons known as Galileo Satellites – Jupiter almost qualifies as a Solar System by itself. Jupiter is not only the largest planet in the Solar System, it is also the largest planet in the universe with a mass 300 times that of Earth. Its size plays an important role in the number of moons orbiting Jupiter because around it there is a large stable gravitational region to support many moons].

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Illustration of Jupiter and its moon Callisto. Photo: Ianm35 / Getty Images

The CNSA had previously considered the lander as part of a mission focused on Callisto, but Wang Qiong said there would be no lander.

DISCOVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The mission is part of China’s expanding solar system exploration program. Mission “Tianwen” – which means Tianwen, is named after the poem “Tianwen” by the ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan, born about 2,300 years ago.

China launched its first independent interplanetary mission in 2020, sending the Tianwen 1 (Tianwen 1) orbiter and the Zhurong (Zhu Rong) rover to Mars. Next, Tianwen 2 will launch around 2025 and target the small near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa for a sample return mission and subsequent visit to the main-belt comet.

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China’s Mars rover Zhu Rong. Photo: CGTN

Tianwen 3 will be a complex, dual-launch Mars sampler mission that could launch in 2028 and provide Earth with the first samples collected from the Red Planet.

The missions along with China’s plan to build the International Lunar Research Station in the 2030s are aimed at “promoting the use of human resources to create a new model of international cooperation,” said Wang Qiong. in space exploration to contribute to the peaceful use of space”.

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSITY FROM EARTH

On September 22, 2022, the South China Morning Post reported that China is building the world’s largest observable telescope, called QTT. The project, led by the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, will help answer space science questions and guide China’s space exploration.

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The 110-meter Qitai Telescope, which is expected to take six years to complete, is located in the Xinjiang region of western China. Photo: Handout

Construction of the world’s largest fully trackable radio telescope began on September 21, 2022 in the Xinjiang region of western China.

Chinese astronomers say the Qitai radio telescope (QTT) will help solve a range of questions, from star formation to detecting gravitational waves, black holes and dark matter.

The telescope will also support China’s exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond by providing rocket and spacecraft tracking services, with its 110-meter-diameter disc that can point towards any direction. which direction of the Northern Hemisphere sky.

Once completed, the QTT telescope will pass the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in the US – which has a diameter of 100 meters that can be observed.

Currently, China operates the world’s largest radio telescope – the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) – located in a natural depression in the mountains southwest of Guizhou.

Article using source: Space, SCMP

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