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Meanwhile, China's Space Program Marches On
We pay a lot of attention here to what is going on in the US (and to a
lesser extent Europe). Meanwhile, China is continuing to develop its own national space program. The latest development is their Tianzhou 1 logistics craft. With twice the cargo capacity of a Progress or Dragon, it can also (at the same time) deliver two tonnes of fuel. This is a step along the way to the construction and support of their next space station (and the logistics module is actually bigger than their current one). That new station, with an initial mass of around 80 tonnes spread over three modules (a hab module and two science modules) will support a crew of six. Scheduled to go on line in the 2020's (when ISS is going off line) and coincident with their launch of a large space telescope and with lunar landings and Mars probes scheduled for 2030, China looks to be growing their capabilities and working to a coherent plan, something we seem to lack over here. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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