Das Astrum Video macht einen guten Job Dinge zu erklären. Kurz gesagt, Chinas experimentelle Arbeiten an ihrer Raumstation sind auf praktische Schritte ausgerichtet, um eine Mondbasis aufzubauen, und hat männliche Missionen zum äußeren Sonnensystem.
Insbesondere konzentrieren sie sich auf 5 Schlüsselbereiche. 1. Orbital Construction Technology, 2. Space Robotics & Automation, 3. Energy and Propulsion Innovation, 4. Lebenserhaltung & Nachhaltigkeit, 5. Tests der Raumfahrzeugtechnologie in Mikrogravitation.
Sie haben bereits wichtige Durchbrüche gelungen, einschließlich eines Systems zur Herstellung von Sauerstoff, das dem System der ISS weit überlegen ist, das ein Drittel der Energie der ISS benötigt, um zu funktionieren.
Amerika, die mit Europa zusammengearbeitet hat, verfolgt immer noch seine SLS/Orbital -Gateway -Pläne, die im Laufe der Zeit immer mehr zum Scheitern verurteilt sind. Eine Wildcard sind kommerzielle Weltraumsysteme, die schnell abheben könnten. Wenn nicht, kann China irgendwann, indem er seine Pläne verfolgt, im Weltraumrennen an die Spitze kommt.
China's experiments on the Tiangong space station back up its claims that it wants a human base on the Moon, and long-range manned missions to Mars and Jupiter.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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Manned missions to Jupiter? Good luck in the next 100 years…
Manned missions outside of Earth are mostly just politics. Most science can be done remotely and humans will only become less and less necessary as robotics and AI improve. Landing on other celestial bodies is probably meant to be used to claim resources and land.
ISS is pretty fucking old as far as space stuff goes so of course it doesn’t have the newest bells and whistles.
Also China is about to go into demographic crisis so any of their future space plans need a big asterisk next to them.
On the Moon, by the end of the decade, sure, why not.
On Mars, in one or two decade, maybe, we still have engineering stuff to figure out (i remember reading a paper about how what protects a module from radiation for a short 2 week long-ish Moon trip would end up becoming a deadly radioactive oven for a team going to Mars for a 1-2 years long trip).
On Jupiter, this can’t be serious… aside the problems already existing for Mars (micro gravity severly damaging muscles, bones and eyes of astronauts), this is a very long trip, and for what? To land on Europa or Ganymede? This is increasingly complex for not much and a huge budget. Much more could be accomplished with one of those snake robot rovers which could dig inside Europa’s mantle. Or just a basic rover sample return mission.
China’s plans are always a double edge sword: they can turn out to be fantastic and tremendous successes (like Zhurong landing on Mars in 2021 on their first try, an insane feat) or complete hogwash (that time they posted a CGI video of what their Moon landing would look like with… the image of a module with a USA flag on it because the CGI guys didn’t remove it from the 3D models they stole…).
Prudence.
China’s not racing anymore — they’re cruising on their own roadmap while everyone else argues over budget approvals. The Tiangong experiments aren’t just proof-of-concept. They’re proof of intention.