China's Aerospace Advances From Tianwen-1 to Future Plans
TapTechNews July 20th news, with the Tianwen-1 and Zhu Rong leaving the first mark of the Chinese on Mars for the first time, China's aerospace has successfully achieved the leap from the Earth-Moon system to interplanetary exploration. The subsequent deep space exploration in our country will be long-term and continuous.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's Lunar Exploration Program, said in an interview with CGTN that in the future, space tourism and tourist dedicated vehicles are all possible. Planetary exploration is now mainly focused on Mars.
Our plan may strive to become the first country to sample and return from Mars. In the next 20 years, the plans are mainly lunar exploration, planetary exploration, and the development of heavy-lift launch vehicles.
He disclosed that our country plans to launch Tianwen-II around 2025 to conduct a flyby exploration and sample return of a small asteroid 40 million kilometers from the Earth. Around 2030, Tianwen-III and Tianwen-IV will be launched to carry out the Mars sample return mission and the Jovian system exploration mission respectively.
It is said that our country has already begun to plan and build the world's first Mars sample laboratory, while deepening the demonstration of the Tianwen-IV exploration mission to achieve the orbiting exploration of Jupiter and its satellites, and then reach Uranus.
According to TapTechNews' previous report, China's Tianwen-1 detector was successfully launched on July 23, 2020, and after 202 days of flight to Mars, it successfully entered the Mars orbit. On May 15, 2021, the landing rover landed at the target landing site, and the Zhurong Mars rover carried out patrol exploration.
For China's Lunar Exploration Program, according to the principle of overall planning, step-by-step implementation, and construction while in use, the construction of the International Lunar Research Station will be planned to be implemented in two stages. It is planned to complete the basic type by 2035, with the South Pole of the Moon as the core, and build comprehensive scientific facilities with basically complete functions and basically matching elements to carry out regular scientific experiments and a certain scale of resource development and utilization; by 2045, the expanded type will be completed, with the Lunar Orbital Station as the hub, and build well-functioning, considerable-scale, and stable operating equipment and facilities to carry out comprehensive scientific research on the lunar base and in-depth resource development and utilization, and conduct relevant technical verification and scientific experiment research for manned landing on Mars.
Wu Weiren said that as an important task in the basic construction stage of the International Lunar Research Station, Chang'e-7 will be launched around 2026 to carry out the exploration of the environment and resources in the South Pole of the Moon; Chang'e-8 will be launched around 2028 to carry out the in-situ utilization test of lunar resources.
In the future, our country will create the Five-Five-Five Project, welcome 50 countries, 500 international scientific research institutions and 5000 overseas scientific researchers to join the International Lunar Research Station project, work together to build and implement this big scientific project of the International Lunar Research Station, jointly manage the research station facilities, and share the research results.
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