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China is set to become the only country with an orbiting space platform by 2024, when the International Space Station (ISS) will be retired, according to the chief designer of the nation’s manned space program.
China plans to launch an experimental core module for its space station in about 2020, China News Service reported, citing Zhou Jianping, who is also a senior member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference now meeting in Beijing.
The launch will test the large modular space station’s key technologies before two lab sections are sent up in succession to dock with the core, Zhou said. The entire platform will then be active.
China has big ambitions in space, including missions to the far side of the moon and Mars. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on scientists and engineers working on the space program to “seize the strategic opportunity and keep innovating to make a greater contribution to the country’s overall growth and the welfare of mankind.
Plans for the space station envision a core module with two laboratories weighing more than 20 tons each, with the capacity to dock two manned rockets and a cargo ship. The core module will control the entire platform, while scientific experiments in biology, materials, microgravity fluids, and basic physics will be carried out aboard the labs.
The space station will offer a significant platform for scientific exploration by Chinese and international scientists, Zhou added. He is confident its findings will help further uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Last week, China announced that it is preparing its first satellite sea-launch for later in the year. Putting rockets into orbit from ocean platforms will meet the growing need for launching near-equatorial and low-inclination satellites, said Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., the main contractor for the country’s space program.
To get closer to an equatorial launch, the space agency has no choice but to look to the ocean. China has four launch sites and Wenchang, on the island province of Hainan, is the most southerly.
Source: yicaiglobal.com
