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How is China's space program working
Can anyone provide any insights into the thinking behind how China's space
program is operating. It seems their practice of launching one manned mission every two years is to continue. The next manned launch is not scheduled until 2007. Presumably financial constraints are not the problem given the way the Chinese economy is booming these days. Is it perhaps that one launch every two years is giving them all the data that NASA and the Russians, in the old days, needed multiple launches over the same time frame to gather? Katipo |
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Katipo wrote:
Is it perhaps that one launch every two years is giving them all the data that NASA and the Russians, in the old days, needed multiple launches over the same time frame to gather? This slow pace is actually a sophisticated plot by the chinese space people to guarantee their employment for decades ahead. |
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Katipo wrote: Can anyone provide any insights into the thinking behind how China's space program is operating. It seems their practice of launching one manned mission every two years is to continue. The next manned launch is not scheduled until 2007. Presumably financial constraints are not the problem given the way the Chinese economy is booming these days. Is it perhaps that one launch every two years is giving them all the data that NASA and the Russians, in the old days, needed multiple launches over the same time frame to gather? Katipo For the last decade or so, China has launched an average of about five space missions (manned and unmanned) each year. In earlier decades, China launched about two missions per year. Last year it launched eight missions, overtaking Europe as the third busiest space program. This year it has launched five so far, inching closer to the declining launch totals of the U.S. (only 11 this year so far). It seems likely that China will continue to gradually and steadily increase the number of launches it performs in coming years. Eventually, if the massive economic power shift underway continues, it should surpass U.S. space efforts. - Ed Kyle |
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