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Take 120kg cargo to 6500m altitude outpost, that's really something.

http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6759533/c6842265/content.html

Meanwhile, CNSA has announced the gift of samples of lunar soil brought back by Chang'e-5 to Russia and France. On 4 April this year, during French President Macron's visit to China, China presented France with 1.5g of lunar samples for scientific purposes, and on 4 February 2022, during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China, China presented Russia with 1.5g of lunar samples for scientific purposes, and in March 2023, Russia gave back to China 1.5g of lunar samples for scientific purposes from Luna-16. "In December 2020, CNSA issued the Measures for the Management of Lunar Samples to encourage research on lunar samples and promote the sharing of scientific results. So far, scientists from Australia, Russia, France, US, UK and Sweden have participated in the scientific research of Chinese lunar samples." Both 1.5g Lunar samples gifted to FR and RU are 1g of shovelling samples and 0.5g drilling samples

There we go: https://weibo.com/2196038737/MDrlBqkpG Add: CSS + Current location: https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/show/1022:2321324893981275193849

Something new about the Miyin project: ... "By developing and launching an array of telescopes, we will rely on distributed space optical interferometry to achieve an optical synthetic aperture equivalent to tens to hundreds of metres to search for and detect the 'another Earth' in our solar system's immediate neighbourhood. It will also carry out high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations of various celestial bodies and map the water composition of the solar system, opening up a new era of high-resolution astronomical observations." The array telescope has a distributed system architecture, with the basic model containing one coupler and four condensers. The words in the picture from left to right are: Condenser 4, Coupler, Condenser 3, Condenser 1 &2 It will be sent to the orbit near Sun-Earth L2 point. It can be replenished on demand, enabling system expansion, functional extension and performance enhancement. Timeline of Miyin Project: 2024: Technical demonstration in orbit include sub-millimetre formation control, sub-micron spatial ranging and distributed imaging technology experiments. 2025: Delivery of the optical interference technology experimental payload to the CSS. Demonstration and verification for precision shared phase control, spatial optical interference to earth and fine imaging to air. Enhance the maturity of optical interference shared control technology. 2027: Launch the key tech experiment satellite 2030: Completion of the basic type of array telescope to achieve optical interference imaging. System specifications: Broad-spectrum infrared: spectral data in the mid-infrared broad band range of 7 to 13 μm are required for habitability and vital signatures mapping. High sensitivity: target brightness in the mid-infrared band is less than 3 photons/second/㎡, requiring a light collection aperture more than 6m. High resolution: Angular distances of less than 0.1 arcsec for stellar-planetary systems require equivalent apertures more than 30m. High contrast ration: Stellar - planets differ in brightness by more than 7 orders of magnitude, requiring an equivalent aperture more than 300 metres. Multi-mode detection: The system needs to have multiple detection modes such as interferometry/imaging, nulling interferometry and spectral photometry. and challenges: 300m spatial scale 10 μm central wavelength faint target light Closed loop, stable co-phase control with better than 100nm accuracy and constant reconfiguration and manoeuvrability. via. https://weibo.com/6389414951/MDkxejuBS Add: Mi Yin (觅音) previously I think can translate to "sound searching". But now I think it's "寻觅知音" in short, means "looking for soulmates" in English.

Another thought from China about sample return: Basically, it's similar to the Chang'e-5 Lunar sample return.

Wake up Zhurong and let us know everything is alright! We miss you!

Just a little explain about the TV Tokyo for anyone don't know: that's the strangest TV station I've ever seen. This station is famous in East Asia for being the only one to show something else when all of Japan is showing breaking news. Such as: the massive earthquake in 2011, when Emperor of Japan issues speech on nuclear power plant crisis, while all the other TV stations were broadcasting the Emperor's speech live, only TV Tokyo was showing a TV programme teaching people how to make sushi. When last time DPRK was launching 4 missiles towards Japan direction in 2017, it was also only the TV Tokyo: "It's okay, things aren't particularly big if TV Tokyo is still showing the anime... Wait?" "The day the special broadcast on TV Tokyo is the day the earth will end."

Good news suddenly: CMS said on their official Weibo page that CSS will start a slow live broadcast "the Lens of Tiangong" from the space station tomorrow at 10am (GMT+8). The live stream is available on the official CMS Weibo account.

The "first launch curse": knock knock*

Did TV Tokyo play anime at that time?

Some interesting update about Tianwen-3 Mars sample return project: And a thought of solar system edge probe Shensuo [神梭, God's (or Magical) Shuttle] Actually, I think the Tianwen-4 and the Neptune exploration mission which under demonstration could do some technical exploration pavement for Shensuo mission. It would be good to even just learning lessons from them.

Just let the north and the south sitting on the same table is already hard enough. I think a more practical way at the moment would be to get the universities in the south and north to work together on a science project and then let us send it to the CSS - even some crop seed breeding projects would be fine. At least that would give them both something to talk about in common. Just like a collaborative experimental project that already in CSS between two of the best universities in China and Japan.

Something more: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2023-04/20/content_85240599.htm The original one on China Space News (full Chinese link warning) said that "Based on the four major activity systems of academia, industry, science popularization and cultural creation, the China Space Conference set up more than 30 sub-forums, including the main, international, academic, industry, cultural, youth and science education forum." ... "The scientific issues and technical problems in the field of astronautics in 2023 will be presented at the main forum of the Congress. In the keynote session, six invited presentations were given by top experts and scholars in the field of spaceflight from China and abroad. They are: Liu Jizhong (刘继忠), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Deep Space Exploration Major Project, Chief Designer of the Tianwen-3 Mission of the Planetary Exploration Project Wang Xiang(王翔), Chief Commander of CSS System from 5th Academy of CASC Yang Baohua (杨保华), former General Manager of China Satellite Network Group Limited and Vice Chairman of the China Aerospace Society Pan Jianwei (潘建伟), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice-President of the University of Science and Technology of China. Veronica La Regina, Commercial Director of the Logic Group Remco Timmermans, members of the Global Faculty from the International Space University "It will focus on such hotspots as deep space exploration, human spaceflight, satellite internet, quantum communication, aerospace electronics and commercial spaceflight, discussing key fundamental, strategic and forward-looking issues in the field of spaceflight, expanding the space for human exploration, discussing the integration of spaceflight technology and economy, and promoting the progress of human society and civilisation." As for the more than 30 sub-forums, it will be including "CN-JP-KR international youth symposium, High-end series of conversations in the field of aerospace, Space Dialogue for countries along the Belt and Road, International symposium on the rule of law in outer space and other international forums etc." So, it definitely would be fun no matter we can see another CZ-9 plan or not days later

An paper entitled Martian Dust Strom Monitoring Methouds (it's in full Chinese) attached a picture of a local dust storm taken by Tianwen-1's MoRIC at 400km on 6 January last year:

I have a friend, one of the best of mine that our parents are friend, are neighbours and grew up with. Ever since he was a kid, this guy has had dreams of joining the PLA and the police - even a bit paranoid sometimes. After we graduated from high school about six or seven years ago and he was accepted into the police academy, he chose to join the PLA first. Two years later he retired from the border and entered the police academy he had always dreamed of. He graduated last year to join the basic police force. Then this guy who thinks about catching some serious crime suspects everyday get in the reality these couple of months: Almost all of his days consist of working with his mentor in various neighbourhoods and doing the odd piece of work such as discourage fighting between the couples or someone get drunk, and dissuading some people from being scammed by telecommunication. Just had long lost bbq with that guy and other friends. Around 90% of the time he's complaining about when he's going to get a suspect in big case. "Even a mugger would be better!" Luckily, the prohibition of alcohol within the Chinese police force is now strict enough, otherwise this guy must have been drunk just now.

As the saying, people usually don't have the same feeling of sorrows and joys on one thing. It's like some of the weird episodes of certain romance dramas my gf sometimes shares with me: she thinks it's interesting, but I can't get the logic no matter how I think about it. However, we agreed on the point that the sky-high fireworks couple hours ago were interesting and very Kerbal after she watching me launch one and explode it similarly in KSP.

If is the rocket launch, I didn't see those "CNSA watchers" sharing latest NOTAM yet: this's the most credible rocket launch prediction. If something else, I guess it would be the crew make some speech to the public or the kids from the station. Sharing the Mars map shoot by Tianwen-1 maybe. And, as we know, the plan of CZ-9 has two plans: traditional one and Starship-like one. Which using 4 YF-130 on stage one and another one is using 30 engines All this time, the research and test-run for high thrust engines for CZ-9, YF-130 for the first stage which got 500t thrust, YF-90 for second stage and YF-79 for third stage were never stop. Although I have read some info hint "some people in some lab in some research institutes were arguing a lot about which of the two options to use". But we all see the firework yesterday - so personal guessing, maybe we can expect the new CZ-9 plan from Long Lehao - which probably "back to the tradition". Although it's impossible to know exactly what all these Institute insiders are bickering about, this guy is a window of observation. I have around 60% confidence in this little guess happening few days later. Just don't know how long it will take for this guy to revise the slides. Of course, if he got some post graduate students, that's won't take too long hahaha

- I missed the launch, where's the Starship right now? -Starship is everywhere

Same thing happened with my gf. $3 billion firework is not something you can see everyday hahaha Thank you Musk!

It seems that someone has taken a little inspiration from the lessons learned: the Institute of Geology and Earth Sciences of the CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) has produced a vision and programme for China's future in-orbit monitoring of Martian dust storms. The programme points out that it's hoped that by launching three satellites to Mars synchronous orbit and one in Mars polar orbit, to form a global weather monitoring network for Mars.

Missed the party but I just watched it. The most kerbal launch I've ever saw

CNSA was not the first one made secret spacewalk. And I don't think it would be last. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/secret-space-shuttles-35318554/