First a manned expedition to the moon, then a investigation station

chiny24.com 8 months ago

On occasion, Chinese media reports on preparations for a manned flight to the Moon as part of a Chinese space program.
One of the crucial elements of the task is the thought of building a investigation station on the surface of the Silver Globe.

Several technological centres are working on alternate projects of this kind. Since 2015, he has been conducting appropriate investigation work at Huazhong University of discipline and Technology (chin, HuaZhong University of discipline and Technology) with WuHan (chin. 武汉) in the state of HuBei (chin. 湖北). Scientists from this facility (who first addressed the problem of the base structure in China) propose to make a station from modules, each of which will have the form of a large bird egg. Experts from the National Technology Innovation Centre for Digital Construction considered this form as optimal to meet utmost environmental challenges on the Moon's surface, while creating buildings with a durable, self-contained design.

Details of the construction of these buildings as well as how they were designed were presented in early September during the announcement of the acceptance of fresh members of the global Moon investigation Station. On this occasion, it was confirmed that the current assumptions for the construction of the station give precedence to the use, for example, of lunar land for building a building block. This concept is the consequence of investigation and investigating on samples obtained by Chinese lunar landers. Including those taken on the dark side of the Moon as part of the Chang’e 6 mission. These materials and 3D printing technologies are assumed to be used.

It is besides known that the advanced Chinese-Russian work on a modular atomic reactor, which will supply the station with electricity and heat from 2035.

On September 28 at ChongQing (chin. 重庆), during the 3rd Space Scavenger Technology Forum (chin. 第三届航天服技术论坛) during the first public presentation, a typical of the Chinese Space Engineering Office (chin. 中国载人航天工程办公, China Manned Space Engineering Office) announced a competition for the name of the suit, which will service astronauts (taiconuts) during the mission on the Moon. As reported, work on this suit has continued since 2020, focusing on comprehensive protection in a complex environment and improving the capabilities of the suit, reducing its weight, expanding its safety of usage and reliability.

These suits will be 1 of many key elements on the way to the success of the first Chinese manned lunar mission. The plan of the space suit requires the usage of cognition from many technological disciplines and the usage of complex technologies.

According to the latest information, the landing of Chinese crew on the Moon is presently planned before 2030. The first phase of building the base on the Moon, which is to be located on the Earth's confederate satellite, is to be completed by 2035, and by 2050, the investigation base is to make 1 hub with a manned station that will orbit the Moon. In 2035, astronauts in the station will be given the chance to survey the Silver Globe within a radius of about 100 kilometres from the base. In 2050 they are given the chance to scope the lunar equator, the northern pole and the dark side of the Moon, thanks to subsequent bases and investigation facilities.

The global Moon investigation Station program, initiated by China and Russia in 2017, attracted the attention of many countries, especially the Global South. Senegal late joined the project. And its active participants are technological and engineering institutions from Russia, Venezuela, Belarus, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, South Africa, Egypt, Nicaragua, Thailand, Serbia and Kazakhstan.

During a conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu Forum) in Huangshan, Anhui Province, in early September, a collaboration agreement was signed by organisations and institutions specified as the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, the Centre for the Innovation of Space Sciences in Panama, the Belgrade Observatory in Serbia, the National University of discipline and Technology in Pakistan, and the University of Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, as well as the Orbital Space of the United arabian Emirates and Swiss Spacetalk.
Per Aspera Ad Astra.

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