China's "Shenzhou 18" manned spacecraft was successfully launched on the evening of April 25, and three astronauts in the early morning of April 26 with the three astronauts of the "Tiangong" group with the China Space Station.On April 30th, "Shenzhou 17" The astronauts will return to the ground.Not only that, the Entering Hainan Wenchang launches will be launched in early May, showing that Chinese aerospace technology is getting close to the United States.
Just Before the launch of Shenzhou No. href = "https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/world/story20240418-3464696" R = NOFOLOW TARGET = _BLANK> NALL Nelson SayChina ’s development and progress in the field of space in the past 10 years is quite amazing. If the United States does not actively take action, China may surpass the United States in just a few years.
Nelson said at the US House of Representatives: "China has developed rapidly in the space field ... I think China and the United States are actually in a space competition." He is worried that if Chinese astronauts arrive at the moon, China may suddenly say that"This is our territory, don't come."
Nelson means that China wants to announce sovereignty over the moon, which may not be in line with the facts; but he believes that China and the United States are in a space competition, but it is not exaggerated.In fact, China and the United States are indeed accelerating the pace of sending astronauts to land on the moon.
In 2017, the U.S. government officially approved the Artemis Program (Artemis Program).The plan originally intends to send the astronauts to the moon and return to the moon by 2024, and establish a normalized residence mechanism to pave the way for future Mars manned landing tasks.However, it was not until December 2022 that the "Orion" spacecraft in Artemis's No. 1 mission completed the unattended flying task of unattended moon. In 2024, it was impossible to complete the astronaut's moon landing mission.In January of this year, the US Space Agency again postponed the manned moon landing plan, announcing the task of manned Artemis 2 and Artemis 3, and will be postponed to September 2025 and September 2026.
As early as 1969, American astronauts successfully boarded the moon, and China was still engaged in the Cultural Revolution at that time.More than 50 years later, US astronauts returned to the moon with some difficulties, but China was striding up.
In January 2004, the Chinese lunar exploration project was officially established.In the past 20 years, the project has launched Chang'e No. 1 to Chang'e 5. From the photo of the moon, to the first time on the back of the moon, to successfully bring back 1731 grams of lunar golf samples, the three steps of "detour, landing, and back" were completed.Strategic goals began to promote the fourth phase of the monthly exploration project.
However, if the task of Artemis 2 and 3 in the United States can be successfully implemented in 2025 or 2026, the United States will be able to seize the astronauts again before China to maintain the statusEssence
Although China has always denied a space competition with the United States, China is obviously not willing to live in the United States in the aerospace field.In 2021, China ’s“ Skywen No. 1 ”Mars probe was successfully launched to achieve Mars surround and landing.
According to Wu Weiren, China plans to launch Tianwen No. 2 around 2025, and return to a small asteroid on the earth with a small asteroid.Around 2030, it launched the third question and implemented the Martian sampling and returning mission. China "is expected to become the first country to return to the sample of Mars."
He also said that China will also implement kinetic energy impacts on a tens of millions of kilometers of asteroids to change its running track and conduct an impact effect assessment on the orbit.Out, say "
At present, China's construction and lunar exploration projects in space stations are steadily promoting, trying to narrow the gap with the United States.However, in the fields of rocket launch efficiency and cost control, "Star Chain" construction, China is still significantly behind the United States.Compared with Musk's ambitious Mars immigration plan, Chinese aerospace immigration programs (SpaceX) owner of the United States SpaceX is even more important.
But China is also actively creating its own "star chain".In July 2023, the General Department of the Space Engineering Group of China Aerospace Science and Industry Group announced the launch of the "Chutian" ultra -low -track Tongyao integrated constellation construction, and will launch nine satellites for business verification stars in the two years. From 2026 to 2030Carry out scale networking, complete 300 satellite network network operations, and provide a multi -type full -time phase remote sensing service system for visible light, high spectrum, infrared, etc., and finally reaches the real -time business response capacity of less than 10 minutes worldwide.
From the perspective of the rapid development of Chinese aerospace technology in recent years, Nelson's concerns about China may surpass the United States.However, it may be exaggerated to catch up with the United States in just a few years, because aerospace science involves a wide range of technology and requires long -term technological accumulation.Nelson emphasized the urgency of China's catch -up, and I am afraid that it has the intention to urge Congress to pay more funds to the US Space Agency.
