Sino-American balloon storms are boiling.The unknown Chinese aerospace scientist suddenly attracted the attention of Western media because he led a high -altitude airship scientific research project four years ago, which is considered to prove that China is using airship to reconcile ground activities.
It was a report published by the New York Times Senior Journalist Chris Buckley on Monday (February 13).It is reported that as early as four years when China ’s high -air balloon flew into the United States in February this year, a Chinese airship had flew across most of the earth at a high altitude of 20,000 meters, including North America.
The unmanned airship is called "Chasing the Cloud", which is developed by the new airship team of Dongguan Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, led by a Chinese scientist named Wu Zhe.The Championship took off on July 27, 2019. After the Asian, Indian Ocean, Africa, Atlantic, North America, and the Pacific, they successively flights.
According to the mobile release platform of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the official news client of the Southern Newspaper Media Group "South+" on August 21, 2019, the airship operation trajectory was published.Southern United States.
It is reported that Wu Zhe, who was the dean of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the time, pointed at the world map of the computer and said, "Look, this beating red dot on the map is our chasing cloudNumber. "He proudly announced:" This is the first time that human below 20,000 meters high, using air -powered flat flow aircraft to fly around the world. "
Wu Zhe told the Nanfang Daily at the time thatIt was a milestone that he realized that a large number of cannons can be sent to the vision of the plain straton. The application field of flat flow airships includes various disaster warnings, environmental pollution monitoring, and air reconnaissance.
Although the airship reached the strong move of global flight, the news did not attract much attention at the time.Today, when China and the United States are confronted with "stray cannons", suddenly revealed that Chinese airships have flew over the United States four years ago, not only let the outside world pay attention to the chase, but also attract people's curiosity.Heart: Where is Wu Zhe sacred?
Where is Wu Zhe sacred?
According to the resume updated by the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to 2016, Wu Zhe is 66 years old. He graduated from Harbin Institute of Construction (now returned to Harbin Institute of Technology) in 1988 and obtained a doctorate in engineering.He has been taught since 1991. He has been the director of the Department of Design and Applied Mechanics and the Vice President of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.In early 2004, Wu Zhe voluntarily resigned from the position of Vice President and focused on teaching and scientific research.
Wu Zhe has helped the Chinese military to design jet fighter, specializing in the research and development of invisible materials, and once part -time members of the Science and Technology Commission of the General Equipment Department of the People's Liberation Army, the leader of the stealth technology professional group,The Chinese military has also awarded Wu Zhe's "Third Prize of Military Science and Technology Progress".The General Equipment Department of the People's Liberation Army has been renovated into the Science and Technology Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2016.
The New York Times said that Wu Zhe has been studying high -altitude unmanned airships in the past 20 years, and is the core figure of China's high -altitude airship research and development field.The Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who is working on Wu Zhe, is also at the forefront of Chinese aerospace research.
For a long time, Wu Zhe and his research team have been looking for special materials that allow high -altitude airships to deal with harsh extreme temperatures and carry load in thin air.In order to make the airship play, the operator on the ground must be able to keep in touch with it at a distance.
In addition to research, Wu Zhe is also keen to commercialize his research project.In 2015, he began to prepare for the establishment of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Dongguan, Dongguan, Guangdong.At the same time, he also participated in the establishment of several companies.
It is unclear whether the Chinese government deliberately avoids the attention of the foreign government, but for a long time, the long -distance flight project of China's high -altitude airship has indeed not attracted much attention from the outside world.It was only after the "stray cannons" flew into the United States. The United States was eager to find evidence of Chinese balloon to use balloons for espionage. Wu Zhe, a leader of Chinese high -altitude airship research, finally appeared in front of the world.
The Ministry of Commerce of the United States included six Chinese entities on the blacklist of trade last Friday (February 10), of which half of them are related to Wu Zhe, namely Beijing Nanjiang Kongtian Technology Co., Ltd.Gesman Aviation Technology Group and Shanxi La Gesman Aviation Technology Group.Although the US Department of Commerce did not mention Wu Zhe's name, the New York Times stated that Wu Zhe was the founder or major shareholder of the three companies.
The US Department of Commerce said that the six entities that were included in the list provided airship, balloon or related components to the military intelligence collection, surveillance and reconnaissance projects of the Chinese military, and "supporting China's military modernization efforts".But it does not show whether these entities are related to the Chinese balloon that the U.S. military shot early in February.
Wu Zhe's high -altitude ball research and development journey
According to the listing documents, Beijing Nanjiang Kongtian Technology Co., Ltd.It is mainly engaged in the construction, product manufacturing and sales of the production bases of nearby spacecraft and its application products.
Near the space refers to the atmosphere of about 20 to 50 kilometers from the ground. Most aircraft cannot fly in this space for a long time, but this height is too low for satellites.Therefore, military reconnaissance balloons usually fly in this space and collect emotional capital.
The Gegsman Aviation Technology Group was founded by Wu Zhe in 2004. It is mainly engaged in the development, production and sales of aircraft stealth equipment, mobile ground stealth protection equipment and aircraft stealth performance monitoring and maintenance systems.The business layout covers military aircraft air -to -air operations, airport deployment and maintenance and maintenance. The core team comes from famous universities such as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Peking University, and Sherong City University.
Shanxi Gusman Aviation Technology Group is the industrial base established by the Shanxi Company in Shanxi.
The business of these three companies is related to the development of aircraft aircraft, and in recent years, it has also frequently conducted flight tests.Beijing Nanjiang Kong Tianchi Technology Holdings cooperated with Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2015 to develop China's first military and civilian airship "Dream".According to the People's Daily at the time, this is the first time in the world that has a continuous power, controllable flight, and reusable capabilities near space airship flight. The airship is also equipped with a system of space imaging and air situation perception.
The near -space aircraft team owned by Gegsman Aviation Technology Group also announced in 2019 that it will be acquired for the first time near space -to -earth signal; in 2020, it announces a high -air balloonAfter completing the flight around the earth, it was safely recovered, and the two balloons were lifted away the following year, and the first time it achieved high -air balloon autonomous wind switching at different latitude.
铱 Gegsman saidThe 20 -kilometer high -altitude static flat air ball has been built in China ’s“ Global Near Space Information Network Construction ”. However, the current progress of this project is unknown.Whether Wu Zhe and the company he founded and held directly involved in the manufacturing or operation that caused the dispute between the two countries to the United States has no evidence to prove it.一部分，并认为气球的制造商与中国人民解放军有“直接关系”。
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It may be inseparable from the increasingly fierce strategic competition situation of China and the United States.
Nanjing University International InternationalZhu Feng, Dean of the School of Relations, analyzed in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post last Saturday (February 11) that the United States may use the balloon incident to increase the scope of China ’s scientific and technological warfare, further exacerbating China -US science and technology decouragement and the intensity of China.It has caused greater resistance to the development of Chinese science and technology.
Chinese military commentator Shi Hong's article published in Xinhua News Agency's global magazine last year described as "an important area of the 21st century world military power competition", "Whoever can get an advantage in the space aircraft near the space of the space can have greater initiative in the future war. "He believes that the strategic position of near the space is very important, which is" new militaryization.
Washington and the Western world are more concerned today. I am afraid that it is not what Chinese balloon flys into the United States and reconnaissance, but who can build a more stable and strong existence in the nearby space.
