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China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan
MarkWhittington writes The recent arrival into Mars orbit of both NASA's MAVEN and India's Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission has not escaped the notice of China. The achievement of its Asian rival has especially proven galling to the Chinese. China has yet to successfully send a space probe beyond the moon. The development has elicited calls in Beijing to accelerate China's Mars program. China currently plans to send a rover to Mars in 2020 and, perhaps, do a Mars sample return mission in 2030. However, it feels that India, which China regards as its rival in an Asian space race, has stolen the spotlight and has left the Chinese behind. China is now keen to try to play catchup with its own Mars mission. One of the hold ups for a Chinese interplanetary exploration program is the delays surrounding the development of the Long March 5 rocket, which will be roughly the equivalent of the America Delta IV in its capabilities. The Chinese launch vehicle unveiling has slipped to at least 2015 because of the technological challenges it faces. The Long March 5 is also needed to launch the 20 ton modules of the Chinese space station, currently planned for later this decade.
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One of the hold ups for a Chinese interplanetary exploration program is the delays surrounding the development of the Long March 5 rocket, which will be roughly the equivalent of the America Delta IV in its capabilities
They're not used to working from blueprints that use feet, inches, and pounds.
You mean, the entire continent?
Ha ha, they are so poor they don't have a space program, ha ha, I'm funny.
Oh by the way, what did you do for the space program in your country ? Surely you must have done something or you wouldn't go around mocking people that did not.
You are incorrect :-)
Hey Chinese leaders, want to make your manhood look bigger? Give Tibet its freedom back. Renounce your insane claims to all of the S. China Sea, and stop threatening Taiwan. Until that happens, no amount of space funnies is going to make men out of you.
The Chinese have already been to Africa.
Like they have for almost all their other space technology....except for the sleazy Loral Systems deal where they paid off US politicians to get the tech.
Citation?
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China is always behind the curve. They didn't get nukes until the 1970's. And they won't do a Mars mission for another six years?
They may have invented gunpowder and pasta way back when - but they lost it after that.
It's time to measure SPACE DICKS again!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
As they say in my mother tongue: Culo veo, culo quiero. China has to remind India that China has a bigger dick. It's sad to see governments behaving like immature teenagers.
Monkey see, monkey do. Will we give them use of the DSN too? China and India are definitely the JV of space.
China has yet to successfully send a space probe beyond the moon
Wrong!
The Change'2 probe went to the Moon, circled it for a year, then went to a Lagrange point, then flew on to the asteroid Toutatis and since then is flying into deep space.
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Rather than competing, the 2 Asian giants (India and China) should collaborate in space exploration; after all progress in this field is not just better for the individual countries but for humanity as a whole.
Isn't it phantastic when science and engineering can profit from stupidity and narrow-minded nationalism? If only that were always the case!
Se they just got a little jealous and now they're going to make a tantrum by following their rivals. Let's see them do it for $72 million.
Why don't you enlighten us ?
Actually, those of us who have worked on space programs rarely, if ever, mock anybody for trying. It remains damn difficult.
In fact, had NASA not helped osc, blue origin, and esp spacex, they would all be still working with small rockets that blow up occasionally.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Chinese economy is a mix if capitalism (west facing businesses) and communism ( for all other businesses, Chinese gov dictates where u can work at and for how much ). As such, Chinese gov simply tells their employees to make less money.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Nobody was paid off for that. Loreal did that on own. Take koch bros cock out of your mouth. They have rammed your brain too many times.
I'm so damn happy the space race has picked up again! Absolutely psyched! I just hope this continues on for decades to come... and not fizzle out as quick as it did back in the 70s-80s
Just because you are a foul-mouthed cretin does not make you right. I know that Clinton is a god to you, but he was just another corrupt pol (and rapist also). From the Washington Post, hardly a leftist org (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/loral053198.htm): "Yet early this year, despite expressions of concern from the Justice Department, President Clinton gave the company permission to launch another satellite in China."
Why doesn't China open up their mission control to western reporters during their missions? This is same paranoid crap the Soviet Union pulled. I am sure that they would also do the Soviet thing of only announcing their missions only if they were successful, but they cannot get away with it. Time to get out of the dark ages China; enough of this 1984 crap.
Open Source rocket design for a space faring tomorrow.
We should all pool our efforts together and build on each other's success, rather than treating space exploration in the same way as world cup soccer.
Despite what the summary states, China was actually quite congratulatory towards India's accomplishment. And the two space agencies have decided to try to work together on some space research (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-develop-remote-sensing-satellites-with-China/articleshow/43022837.cms) . Totally opposite of what the summary states. In addition, during Xi Jinping's visit to India this past week, agreements were signed between China and India "to cooperate in peaceful use of space, to research and develop scientific experiment satellites, remote sensing and communications satellites."
They went there in June 2003. I've read all about it in The Martian Chronicles.
Ezekiel 23:20
Actually, those of us who have worked on space programs...
WindBourne you worked in the space program?
You being the same guy who had problems comprehending simple English?
What did you do? Janitor at JPL?