Questions tagged [china]
Questions regarding Chinese politics, people, and space programs and their relation to space exploration.
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Was it possible for the Chinese to send a rocket using gunpower past the Karman line?
The Chinese invented the first rocket. Their rockets were fireworks using gunpower to fly which usually only flew a few hundred meters. I was wondering if it were possible with the technology of ...
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Why does Q-SAT look like a buckyball?
Tech.China.Com.cn's August 7, 2020 article Tsinghua University Successfully Launched Gravity and Atmospheric Science Satellite (Chinese, title translated to English) includes the image above of what I ...
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How does Jonathan McDowell know that Chinese tracking could not possibly have determined a closest approach of 14.5 meters between two space objects?
Space News' Chinese satellite in near miss with Russian ASAT test debris links to the announcement below, and quotes "satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell" poo-pooing the claimed closest ...
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How to make diamagnetic lunar simulant that would "float" in a strong enough magnetic field? (for China's 60 cm high field simulator)
Live Science's China builds 'artificial moon' for gravity experiment says:
Chinese scientists have built an "artificial moon" research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity ...
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What was the flight path of China's hypersonic missile that circumnavigated sometime in summer 2021?
I read on CNN:
China's test of a hypersonic missile over the summer [2021] "went around the world," the second most senior US general said in an interview released Tuesday, shedding new ...
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What is the current status of space laser communication (lasercom) in Russia and China?
Space-based laser communications (Free Space Optics) is making a dent in the field of satcom, but as always news from the East doesn't seem to make much appearance in English-speaking media.
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What is the Chinese hypersonic capability? (supersonic test orbited the Earth in August, long march rocket & JF22 supersonic wind tunnel)
Current news cycle is reporting the Chinese supersonic missile capable rocket that orbited earth in August. The various news reports are extremely light on details.
Some info on the long march series.
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What flag is flying over the landing site of the Shenzhou 12 crew astronauts returning from Tiangong? What does it say?
NBC News has a short video clip Astronauts Return After 90-day Mission To China's Space Station
A trio of Chinese astronauts touched down in the Gobi Desert after completing China's longest space ...
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Cartoon-like characters on the side of the Tianwen-1 Mars lander?
Scott Manley's excellent new video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone is chock-full of space-sleuthing goodies and interesting information about the ...
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Is NASA's Deep Space Network possibly a backup link for China's Zhurong rover?
While the Tianwen-1 orbiter will dispense commands to the Zhurong rover, the Mars Express orbiter of the European Space Agency will serve as a backup.
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Since Mars Express normally ...
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What CPU does China's Zhurong rover use?
The Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, and the InSight lander, all use the BAE RAD750 processor.
The Ingenuity helicopter uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor.
The only other active spacecraft on ...
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How (the heck) is it possible that with China's future 6G satellite network I'll be able to download 1000 movies per second?
The reasonably credible Wall Street Journal has a YouTube channel and the new video SpaceX vs. China: The Quest for Satellite Internet | WSJ says that with Starlink's data rate I can download a 1 Gb ...
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The Chinese Mars rover and lander can be seen in the same picture. What device took the photo?
The China Space News Agency published an image showing the Chinese Mars rover and lander in the same photograph.
What camera took the picture?
Source: CNSA
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Is there independent evidence that China landed a robot on Mars in May 2021?
I would like to know if there is independent evidence of any kind that China landed a robot on Mars in May 2021?
As of May 16, 2021, the last news on CNSA (China National Space Administration) site is ...
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Does China pay for damages caused by deorbiting space junk?
When China launches a big rocket, they apparently don't control the deorbit and there are large enough pieces to strike the surface and even cause damage to buildings, as happened in the Ivory Coast ...
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