China Set to Launch Its Own Space Station; Mission: Unknown
The short answer is that we do not know. The "opaqueness" of Beijing and other space initiatives "should raise questions about Chinese intentions," Dean Cheng, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation hawkish, said House Dangerfield. One thing is certain: Beijing was terribly busy in space, with more and more satellite launches, as well as occasional walks and even plans to put a man on the moon by 2030.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor at the University of California and author of China in the 21st century, has a theory about the obsession with the spectacle of Beijing, if a massive engineering project, the Olympic Games and the opening of a new prototype stealth Theatre combat. Displays "play a in confirming vision based in myth official part but also reality tangible China a country once was powerful dejected awhile and now risen to a more natural, "wrote Wasserstrom.
But that does not mean Beijing is planning to launch a space race against the new United States, which recently announced plans for new giant rockets and an eventual manned mission to an asteroid or even Mars. "Progress in China's steady but slow," said Cheng. "Manned launches every two years hardly suggests a space-race mentality. At the same time, but these improvements are stable for a man two men to three men. Falun Tian Spacelab ... will mark a new step forward for China's manned space program. "
China Set to Launch Its Own Space Station; Mission: Unknown |
China is only a few days after the launch of an ambitious rival the International Space Station, pictured above. Launch of a rocket carrying an unmanned test module named Tiangong 1 - literally, "Heavenly Palace 1" - is scheduled this week. Presumably, 8.5 tonnes Tiangong 1 module is designed to practice self-confrontation in OPS in orbit, in order to prepare for the ground occupied by 2020. But China-observers and experts space were debating whether there extra on palace agenda Heavenly.Will it be strictly Spacelab equipment for scientific research? Is there a military mission? Will work for China "large young population and growing number of highly motivated scientists and engineers in space?" (How Kulacki Gregory of Union of Concerned Scientists, describes the personal space of China.) Have all the space station program really just a PR ploy? Or some or all of the above?
The short answer is that we do not know. The "opaqueness" of Beijing and other space initiatives "should raise questions about Chinese intentions," Dean Cheng, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation hawkish, said House Dangerfield. One thing is certain: Beijing was terribly busy in space, with more and more satellite launches, as well as occasional walks and even plans to put a man on the moon by 2030.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor at the University of California and author of China in the 21st century, has a theory about the obsession with the spectacle of Beijing, if a massive engineering project, the Olympic Games and the opening of a new prototype stealth Theatre combat. Displays "play a in confirming vision based in myth official part but also reality tangible China a country once was powerful dejected awhile and now risen to a more natural, "wrote Wasserstrom.
But that does not mean Beijing is planning to launch a space race against the new United States, which recently announced plans for new giant rockets and an eventual manned mission to an asteroid or even Mars. "Progress in China's steady but slow," said Cheng. "Manned launches every two years hardly suggests a space-race mentality. At the same time, but these improvements are stable for a man two men to three men. Falun Tian Spacelab ... will mark a new step forward for China's manned space program. "
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