2024-03-17 07:00:10
China plans to launch two reusable rockets in 2025 and 2026, laying the foundation for its future manned missions to the Moon, scheduled for the end of this decade.
Through the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), a state-owned company and main contractor for the Chinese space program, a new lunar program has been announced. The latter emphasizes reuse integral (An integral is the result of the mathematical operation, performed on a function, called…) launchers, an initiative inspired by the company’s successes SpaceX (SpaceX (or Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) is an American company…) by Elon Musk. The goal is to make space missions more sustainable and economical, removing the need to build new launch vehicles for each mission.
Without being explicitly named by the CASC, these two rockets have diameters of 4 and 5 meters respectively. The largest would potentially be a variation of the Long March 10 project, which measures 92 meters height (Height has several meanings depending on the area covered.) and can transport 27 tonnes in orbit (In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the trajectory that a body draws in space…) translunaire. Ce launcher (Pitcher, astronautics term Pitcher, baseball term) would be essential to transport the taikonauts taking place in the Mengzhou spacecraft to the Lune (The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth and the fifth largest satellite of the…) in 2030.
The CASC’s efforts to improve China’s space capabilities are part of a landscape where several Chinese companies are also working on reusable rockets. This development significantly increases launch and space access options for the pays (Country comes from the Latin pagus which designated a territorial and tribal subdivision of extent…).
In 2023, CASC successfully completed a hover flight test with takeoff and landing (Landing designates, in the etymological sense, the fact of reaching dry land….) vertical, marking a major advance in the field of reusable launchers. These successes and the continued development of reusable rockets constitute a key component of the strategy (Strategy – from the Greek stratos which means “army” and ageîn which means…) space of China, aiming to position the country as a power (The word power is used in several fields with a particular meaning 🙂 dominant in theexploration (Exploration is searching with the intention of discovering something unknown.) and the use of space in the decades to come.
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