{"id":118337,"date":"2020-11-23T18:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-prepping-for-mission-to-bring-back-material-from-moon\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:36:35","slug":"china-prepping-for-mission-to-bring-back-material-from-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-prepping-for-mission-to-bring-back-material-from-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"#China prepping for mission to bring back material from moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#China prepping for mission to bring back material from moon<\/strong>”
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\n WENCHANG, China \u2014 Chinese technicians were making final preparations Monday for a mission to bring back material from the moon\u2019s surface for the first time in more than four decades \u2014 an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system more general<\/a>ly.<\/p>\n

Chang\u2019e 5 \u2014 named for the Chinese moon goddess \u2014 is the country\u2019s most ambitious lunar mission yet. If successful, it would be a major advance for China\u2019s space program, and some experts say it could pave the way for bringing samples back from Mars or even a crewed lunar mission.<\/p>\n

The China National Space Administration said in a statement that the Long March-5Y rocket began fueling up on Monday evening, ahead of a launch scheduled for between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. Tuesday at the Wenchang launch center on the southern island province of Hainan.<\/p>\n

The typically secretive administration had previously only confirmed the launch would be in late November. Spacecraft typically take three days to reach the moon.<\/p>\n

The mission\u2019s key task is to drill almost 7 feet beneath the moon\u2019s surface and scoop up about 4.4 pounds of rocks and other debris to be brought back to Earth, according to NASA. That would offer the first opportunity to scientists to study newly obtained lunar material since the American and Russian missions of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

The Chang\u2019e 5 lander\u2019s time on the moon is scheduled to be short and sweet. It can only stay one lunar daytime, or about 14 Earth days, because it lacks the radioisotope heating units to withstand the moon\u2019s freezing nights.<\/p>\n

The lander will dig for materials with its drill and robotic arm and transfer them to what\u2019s called an ascender, which will lift off from the moon and dock with the \u201cservice capsule.\u201d The materials will then be moved to the return capsule for the trip<\/a> home to Earth.<\/p>\n

The technical complexity of Chang\u2019e 5, with its four modules, makes it \u201cremarkable in many ways,\u201d said Joan Johnson-Freese, a space expert at the U.S. Naval War College.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is showing itself capable of developing and successfully carrying out sustained high-tech programs, important for regional influence and potentially global partnerships,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In particular, the ability to collect samples from space is growing in value, said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Other countries planning to retrieve material from asteroids or even Mars may look to China\u2019s experience, he said.<\/p>\n

While the mission is \u201cindeed challenging,\u201d McDowell said China has already landed twice on the moon with its Chang\u2019e 3 and Chang\u2019e 4 missions, and showed with a 2014 Chang\u2019e 5 test mission that it can navigate back to Earth, reenter and land a capsule. All that\u2019s left is to show it can collect samples and take off again from the moon.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of this, I\u2019m pretty optimistic that China can pull this off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The mission is among China\u2019s boldest since it first put a man in space in 2003, becoming only the third nation to do so after the U.S. and Russia.<\/p>\n

While many of China\u2019s crewed spaceflight achievements, including building an experimental space station and conducting a space walk, reproduce those of other countries from years past, the CNSA is now moving into new territory.<\/p>\n

Chang\u2019e 4 \u2014 which was the first soft landing on the moon\u2019s relatively unexplored far side almost two years ago \u2014 is currently collecting full measurements of radiation exposure from the lunar surface, information vital for any country that plans to send astronauts to the moon.<\/p>\n

China in July became one of three countries to have launched a mission to Mars, in China\u2019s case an orbiter and a rover that will search for signs of water on the red planet. The CNSA says the spacecraft Tianwen 1 is on course to arrive at Mars around February.<\/p>\n

China has increasingly engaged with foreign countries on missions, and the European Space Agency will be providing important ground station information for Chang\u2019e 5.<\/p>\n

U.S. law however still prevents most collaborations with NASA, excluding China from partnering with the International Space Station. That has prompted China to start work on its own space station and launch its own programs that have put it in a steady competition with Japan and India, among Asian nations seeking to notch new achievements in space.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s space program has progressed cautiously, with relatively few setbacks in recent years. The rocket being used for the current launch failed on a previous launch attempt, but has since performed without a glitch, including launching Chang\u2019e 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina works very incrementally, developing building blocks for long-term use for a variety of missions,\u201d Freese-Johnson said. China\u2019s one-party authoritarian system also allows for \u201cprolonged political will that is often difficult in democracies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

While the U.S. has followed China\u2019s successes closely, it\u2019s unlikely to cooperate with China in space amid political suspicions, a sharpening military rivalry and accusations of Chinese theft of technology<\/a>, experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cA change in U.S. policy regarding space cooperation is unlikely to get much government attention in the near future,\u201d Johnson-Freese said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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