On the 22nd June 2024 schedule to launch CNSA _China National Space Administration -China – People’s Republic of China 1500 Hours Hong Kong –Beijing Time China- People’s Republic of China…. at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan Province.
The Sino-French SVOM mission (Space-based Multi-band Astronomical Variable Object Monitor) is scheduled to be launched at 15:00 on June 22 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center using a Long March 2C carrier rocket. The satellite’s target operating orbit is a low-Earth orbit with an inclination of 30 degrees and an altitude of 625 kilometers. The total weight of the satellite is 930 kg, and the payload weighs 450 kg.
The mission includes 4 main instruments, 2 of which are French (ECLAIR and MXT) and 2 are Chinese (GRM and VT): – The ECLAIR telescope is used to detect and locate gamma-ray bursts in X-rays and low-energy gamma rays (from 4 to 250 keV). – The MXT telescope (Microchannel X-ray Telescope) is used to observe gamma-ray bursts in high energy – The VT telescope (Visible Light Telescope) operates in the visible light region and is used to detect and observe visible light emissions immediately after gamma-ray bursts. The total weight of the satellite is 930 kg, and the payload is 450 kg. It will be placed in a low Earth orbit with an inclination of 30 degrees, an altitude of 625 km and an orbital period of 96 minutes.
Observations in space will be complemented by a large ground segment, which includes: – A wide field camera GWAC (Ground-based Wide Angle Camera) for studies from the ground in the visible light region, detecting the prompt emission of part of the burst – A GFT (Ground Tracking Telescope) robotic telescope to precisely measure the coordinates of the gamma-ray burst.
At 17:27 on May 3rd Friday 2024 Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration, the Chang’e-6 probe was successfully launched by the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province, China, People’s Republic of China., and accurately entered the Earth-moon transfer orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. The Chang’e-6 probe has embarked on the world’s first return journey for sampling from the far side of the moon. The pre-selected landing and sampling area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon.
[ Chang’e 6 completes sampling and ascender takes off from the far side of the moon and enters the scheduled lunar orbit]
According to the National Space Administration, at 4th June 2024 7:38 Beijing time today, the Chang’e 6 ascender carrying lunar samples took off from the far side of the moon. After the 3000N engine worked for about 6 minutes, it successfully sent the ascender into the scheduled lunar orbit. From
June 2 to 3, Chang’e 6 successfully completed intelligent and rapid sampling in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon, and packaged the precious lunar far side samples in the storage device carried by the ascender in a predetermined form. During the sampling and packaging process, researchers simulated the geographical model of the sampling area and simulated sampling in the ground laboratory based on the probe data transmitted back by the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, providing important support for sampling decisions and operations in various links.
The Chang’e-6 lunar flag display system was jointly developed by China Aerospace Sanjiang Group and Wuhan Textile University and other units. In response to the extreme environmental requirements of high and low temperature alternation, high vacuum and strong ultraviolet radiation in this mission, the lunar flag team of Academician Xu Weilin of the State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technology of Wuhan Textile University..
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At 17:27 on May 3rd Friday 2024 Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration, the Chang’e-6 probe was successfully launched by the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province, China, People’s Republic of China., and accurately entered the Earth-moon transfer orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. The Chang’e-6 probe has embarked on the world’s first return journey for sampling from the far side of the moon. The pre-selected landing and sampling area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon.
[Chang’e-6 successfully landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon] According to the National Space Administration, at 06:23:15:861
Beijing time today, the Chang’e-6 lander and ascender combination, supported by the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, successfully landed in the pre-selected landing area of the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon. At 6:09 on June 2, the Chang’e-6 lander and ascender combination began to implement power descent, and the 7500 Newton variable thrust main engine was turned on. During this period, the combination made rapid attitude adjustments and gradually approached the lunar surface. After that, obstacles were automatically detected through the visual autonomous obstacle avoidance system, and a visible light camera was used to select a rough safe point based on the brightness of the lunar surface. It hovered 100 meters above the safe point, and laser three-dimensional scanning was used to take precise photos to detect obstacles on the lunar surface. Finally, the landing point was selected and a slow vertical descent began. When it was about to reach the lunar surface, the engine was shut down, and the buffer system was used to ensure that the combination reached the lunar surface in a free fall manner, and finally landed smoothly in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon.
According to the China Academy of Space Technology, Chang’e-6 is one of the most complex spacecraft systems developed by China so far. The propulsion subsystem developed by the Sixth Academy provides it with the orbiter propulsion subsystem, lander propulsion subsystem and ascender propulsion subsystem. They are composed of 3 orbit control engines, 74 attitude control engines and more than 200 supporting single units such as tanks, gas cylinders, valves, circuit boxes, pressure sensors, etc. Among them, 1 7500N variable thrust engine is used for a smooth soft landing on the moon, and 2 3000N engines are used for the probe’s near-moon braking “in-orbit braking” and lunar takeoff. With their help, the Chang’e-6 probe can complete a series of “difficult actions” in space on its own .
The payload carried by the Chang’e-6 lander will work as planned and carry out scientific exploration missions. The international payloads of the Chang’e-6 mission, the European Space Agency’s lunar surface negative ion analyzer and the French lunar radon detector, are about to start working, and the Italian laser corner reflector has been deployed.
Since the Chang’e-6 probe was launched into orbit on May 3, 2024, it has successively experienced the processes of earth-moon transfer, near-moon braking, circumlunar flight, landing and descent. The Chang’e-6 probe consists of an orbiter, a returner, a lander and an ascender. On May 30, the lander and ascender combination and the orbiter and returner combination were separated in orbit. After the lander and ascender combination lands successfully, the lander will conduct status checks and settings such as the deployment of solar panels and directional antennas under ground control via the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, and then officially begin sampling work on the far side of the moon, which will last about two days. The lunar soil samples and lunar surface rocks will be collected by drilling with a drill and by using a robotic arm to achieve multi-point and diversified automatic sampling. At the same time, scientific explorations such as on-site investigation and analysis of the landing area on the far side of the moon and analysis of the lunar soil structure will be carried out to deepen the research on the origin and evolution history of the moon.
On the day of 28th May 2024 Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time on April 25, 2024, Beijing time Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew successfully completed its first extravehicular activity…. According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 18:58 Beijing time on May 28, 2024, after about 8.5 hours of extravehicular activities, the Shenzhou 18 crew Takionauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu worked closely together, with the support of the space station’s robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, to complete the installation of the space station’s space debris protection device, inspection of extravehicular equipment and facilities and other tasks. Takionauts Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu have safely returned to the Wentian laboratory module, and the extravehicular activity was a complete success. Astronaut Ye Guangfu walked in space again, and Takionaut Li Guangsu performed his first extravehicular activity mission.
According to the plan, a large number of scientific experiments and technical tests, as well as extravehicular activities of the astronaut crew and application payload extravehicular missions will be carried out during the Shenzhou 18 manned flight mission
The duration of the first EVA of the Shenzhou 18 crew was very close to the limit of the use of the EVA suit, and the EVA suit B also continued to break its own usage record. The theoretical service life of the second-generation Feitian EVA is 15 EVAs, and 13 have been completed so far. Will a new EVA suit be launched on the Tianzhou 8 cargo spacecraft mission in September this year..
Update on the use of extravehicular suits on the Chinese space station. As of now, the use of the three extravehicular suits on the space station is as follows: Extravehicular suit A (red stripes), used 11 times, users: Liu Boming (1), Nie Haisheng (1), Zhai Zhigang (2), Fei Junlong (4), Tang Hongbo (2), Ye Guangfu (1);
Extravehicular suit B (blue stripes), used 13 times, users: Tang Hongbo (1), Liu Boming (1), Chen Dong (3), Zhang Lu (4), Jing Haipeng (1), Tang Shengjie (1), Jiang Xinlin (1), Li Guangsu (1);
Extravehicular suit C (yellow stripes), used 6 times, users: Wang Yaping (1), Ye Guangfu (1), Liu Yang (1), Cai Xuzhe (2), Zhu Yangzhu (1). Is it time to use extravehicular suit C, or do you want to use extravehicular suit B to
test the limits of the second-generation extravehicular suit…
On the 27th May 2024 Shenzhou 18 Takionaut Crew# will carry out its first extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future …. Since successfully entering the space station complex on April 26, 2024 Beijing time, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew has been working and living in orbit for 32 days, and will carry out its first extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future.
Since entering the space station, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew has completed the rotation with the Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew, space station platform maintenance and care, life and health protection, extravehicular space suit inspection and testing, and preparation for extravehicular activities. It has also conducted on-orbit training projects such as full-system pressure emergency drills and medical rescue drills. The various space science experimental (test) tasks it has undertaken have been steadily and steadily advanced, and the second extravehicular installation of the material extravehicular exposure experiment device has been completed as planned.
At present, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew is in good condition, the space station complex is operating stably, and the conditions for carrying out extravehicular activities are in place
Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. is the first domestic aerospace enterprise with mixed ownership, and it is also the target enterprise that Oriental Aerospace Port focuses on introducing. Relying on the scientific research strength and resource advantages of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Aerospace Flight Technology Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology has been committed to the research and development and integration of space technology and aerospace vehicles as a platform for the transformation of major national scientific research projects, as well as the transformation and provision of technological achievements. Aerospace launch service. The Lijian-1 rocket project also adds a brand-new name card to the Oriental Space Port, which will surely promote the construction of the Oriental Space Port to take a solid step forward.
In 2028, take a trip to space! Come and experience the space tourism capsule first｜High-quality development research trip
[China Aerospace’s “space travel vehicle” will make its first flight in 2027, and manned space travel will be carried out in 2028]
The space travel vehicle uses a combination of a single-stage rocket and a tourist cabin. The tourist cabin has 4 panoramic windows and can accommodate 7 passengers in a single flight. Passengers. During the 10-minute flight, passengers will cross the Kármán Line at an altitude of 100 kilometers and experience the feeling of weightlessness that escapes the earth’s gravity for 3 minutes. Finally, the tourist capsule will land via parachute.
The project meets a 100-hour launch cycle each time, and the supporting aerospace theme park will have 10 space tourism aircraft on standby to perform space travel experiences in shifts. The landing site for aircraft launch and recovery will be planned and constructed in coordination with the aerospace theme park, space experience hall and aerospace science education base. Passengers will also receive short-term training in the park before flying.
With the development of China, People’s Republic of China aerospace technology, it is no longer a dream for the public to travel to space. On May 15, the 2024 “High-Quality Development Research Tour” Guangdong-themed interview event came to the Zhongke Aerospace Flight Technology Industrialization Base in Nansha District, Guangzhou. Here, reporters experienced a 1:1 replica of the space tourism capsule and learned that in 2028, passengers may be able to take a real rocket to sub orbit and experience the feeling of weightlessness.
According to the staff of Guangzhou Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Zhongke Aerospace”), the suborbital vehicle that will take passengers to space will use a combination of a single-stage rocket and a tourist cabin. The tourist cabin will have four panoramic windows. , can carry 7 passengers on a single flight. During the 10-minute flight, passengers will cross the Kármán Line at an altitude of 100 kilometers and experience the feeling of weightlessness that escapes the earth’s gravity for 3 minutes. Finally, the tourist capsule will land via parachute.
The project meets a 100-hour launch cycle each time, and the supporting aerospace theme park will have 10 space tourism aircraft on standby to perform space travel experiences in shifts. The landing site for aircraft launch and recovery will be planned and constructed in coordination with the aerospace theme park, space experience hall and aerospace science education base. Passengers will also receive short-term training in the park before flying.
According to the reporter’s understanding, with the continuous advancement of technology, the ticket prices for space travel will continue to decrease, giving the public the opportunity to travel in space.
