OUR Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS abbreviation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) recently announced that the upcoming space missions National Space Administration of China (CSNA) can star systems and exoplanets. The focus of these missions will be stars located at a distance of 33 light years from our solar system, which is very small by astronomical standards. OUR CSNA has ambitious plans for space exploration this decade.

Upcoming Chinese space missions

OUR China 13 more space missions are planned, two of which are focused on finding habitable exoplanets and exploration of star systems that are 33 light years away from our planet. First mission CSNA coming soon Overview of nearby habitable exoplanets. This mission will explore 100 stars about the size of our Sun and try to find exoplanets with favorable conditions for life.

The second mission has a very curious name: Earth 2.0 – Earth 2.0. This mission, named after a software update, will search for exoplanets with dimensions similar to the Earth, and orbits similar to ours around the Sun. For this CSNA will use an instrument consisting of seven telescopes. There was no word on a possible date for those missions, or whether one would be skipped if the country needed to prioritize the space agency’s budget. But the country has other projects before them.

China’s plans for space exploration

At the beginning of 2022 China released its plan for space exploration for the next five years. The plan opens with a quote from President Xi Jinping. “The exploration of the vast space, the development of the space industry, and the transformation of China into a space power is our eternal dream,” the president said. In 2021 National Space Agency of China (CNSA) has launched the first module of its space station, but the plan does not indicate when the agency intends to complete construction. OUR Chinese space stationcall TiangongThe Mandarin Sky Palace was due to be completed and fully operational in 2022. There are currently three astronauts in the only space module. Tiangongwho are due to end their stay in April, six months after their arrival.

The interior of the main module of the Chinese space station. Source: Reproduction/CASC.

OUR China highlights of the project plan for manned spaceflight Moon, but also does not indicate a time limit for this. what the CSNA announces that she intends to launch two more probes to the moon. In this new space race United States should be ahead of the moon landing game – even if they’ve done it before. OUR NASA should deliver the first woman and person of color to the satellite by at least 2025. CSNA explains his manned flight to the Moon by the fact that he will spend the next five years studying and researching technologies for landing on the Moon, a new generation of manned spacecraft and key technologies for the exploration and development of the circumlunar orbit (a region that includes a small area outside the lunar orbit) . The agency also wants to work with other agencies to establish a research station on the Moon.

And not only the moon lives CSNA. OUR China also wants to deliver Martian soil samples, send probes to asteroids, explore the Jupiter system and the limits of the solar system.

In 2023, the country will launch the first large space telescope. baptized from Chinese space station telescope (CSST in the abbreviation in English), it will be the one that is equated to Hubble Space Telescopebut its field of view will be much larger than its counterpart in NASA.

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Source: BGR