After conducting over 50 launches in 2022, China has bigger and bolder plans for 2023. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has said that Beijing is planning to launch 60 space missions and over 200 spacecraft in the new year.
In a blue paper, unveiled recently, China has revealed that the country's space science and technology activities will see a significant boost in 2023 including big-ticket missions like Tianzhou-6 cargo craft, the Shenzhou-16, and the Shenzhou-17 flight missions to further solidify its Tiangong space station activities. The two crewed missions will ensure the Space Station reaches its full potential this year.
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Apart from launching these missions, the corporation will also ensure that the construction of a new-generation commercial remote-sensing satellite system is accelerated this year. Meanwhile, the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System will witness the launch of three backup satellites.
CGTN reported that the CASC will push the fourth phase of lunar exploration and planetary exploration in 2023 as it continues to develop the lunar probe Chang'e-7, Mars probe Tianwen-2, as well as a stationary orbit-microwave detection satellite. Beijing, in 2022, approved the fourth phase.
The Chang'e-7 spacecraft will be launched to the moon's South Pole, followed by Chang'e-6, which will return the samples from the surface. The Chang's-6 mission is a follow-up of the Chang-5 mission that returned samples from the lunar surface last year. Chang'e-6 will be followed by Chang'e-8, a step toward building a model of a lunar scientific research station.
Beijing will also conduct the maiden launch of the Long March-6C rocket alongside developing the reusable launch vehicles on the lines of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket. "Now, the overall plan for the heavy rocket construction has been set, it will be reusable, smart, and efficient," Gu Mingkun, deputy chief of the Overall Design Department with China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, told CGTN.
"When the heavy rocket is put to use in high-orbit missions, its takeoff weight will reach 4000 tonnes, and its takeoff thrust will reach 6,000 tonnes, with reuse capability. In the future, heavy launch vehicles that are fully reusable will be developed," Gu added.
China successfully conducted 64 rocket launches in 2022 as it sets a new target for 2023. Beijing has already conducted one launch every week, on average, in January.
After conducting over 50 launches in 2022, China has bigger and bolder plans for 2023. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is a main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has subsidiaries which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and ground equipment. It also has a division for strategic and tactical missile systems.
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China performed 67 launches followed by Russia with 19 launches from their spaceports in Russia and Kazakhstan. India is starting to establish itself on the global stage with 7 launches in 2023.
China has unveiled its latest three-person crew set to embark on a six-month-long mission to low Earth orbit. Shenzhou 18 is poised to launch on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China on Thursday (April 25) and head to China's Tiangong space station.
China has developed and launched more than 20 types of Long March-series rockets - the pillar of the country's space programmes and responsible for over 500 launch missions since 1970.
The program encompasses lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft, launched using the Long March series of rockets. A human lunar landing component may have been added to the program, after China publicly announced crewed lunar landing plans by the year 2030 during a conference in July 2023.
Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, who went into space in 2003 aboard Shenzhou-5, says China would welcome more cooperation with the United States. "China has always wanted to cooperate with the United States," he says.
Of those launch attempts, the US was responsible for 109, China 67, and Russia 19. Perhaps as interesting, India for the first time out-launched Europe — seven to three.
Based on government statements about the sector and its development history, my understanding is that China's primary space program interests and drivers currently revolve around a combination of military and economic interests, as well as being focused on scientific and technology development and political prestige.
China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to the United States' concerns over the People's Liberation Army's — the Chinese Communist Party's military arm's — involvement in the program.
China's new jumbo-size, reusable rockets are part of the country's plans to send humans to the moon by 2030. China plans to launch two reusable rockets in 2025 and 2026 in preparation for future crewed missions to the moon.
Although we still do not know who first made the rocket, nor when nor how it was devised, there has been a long-held and commonly accepted belief that it originated in China during the Sung Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD).
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) plans to launch four-meter and five-meter-diameter reusable rockets for the first time in 2025 and 2026 respectively, Wang Wei, a deputy to the National People's Congress, told China News Service March 4. The reports do not clearly identify the two rockets.
In early 2019, China became the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon's far side. And in 2020 it brought back samples from the lunar surface, in another impressive demonstration of its growing prowess and ambition.
China launched a spacecraft today that is planned to be the first act in a complex, multistep campaign to achieve an unprecedented feat: Collecting samples from the far side of the moon and delivering the precious cargo to Earth.
It was inspired by levitating frogs and could test tech for future lunar colonies. China has built an “artificial moon” model that uses magnetic fields to mimic weak lunar gravity — and it could help with the creation of future moon colonies.
For the third year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts (223) and successful orbital launches (211). The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches from 61 in 2022 to 98 in 2023.
2023 saw more than 60 space launches conducted in China, sending nearly 200 satellites and spacecraft into space. Half of them, blasting off, from this very location.
Of the 5,465 active artificial satellites orbiting the Earth as of April 30, 2022, 3,433 belong to the United States. This is by far the largest number of any single country, with their nearest competitor, China, accounting for only 541. Artificial satellites are human-made objects deliberately placed in orbit.
Elon Musk's SpaceX smashed its previous annual record for orbital rocket launches, pulling off 96 successful missions in 2023 at a blistering average launch pace of every four days.
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