The American -Chinese space race becomes more tight

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China itself only prevailed in the first space mission in 2003 – but its growing space sector extends to a pace, with separate ambitions to put shoes on the moon by the end of the nodes. Beijing has made great progress this month only, with the manned space agency in China Advertisement She succeeded in conducting the first takeoff test and downs for the moon in Lanyue in Hebei, on the surface of a trial Designed to simulate Moon’s gravity and terrain conditions.

Only last week, the 176 -year -old carrier missile to March 10 Wipe her first fixed test The launch of its seven paddle engines YF-100K at the Wenchang facility in Hainan. Its brother missile is still from the same series, two reusable phases, from March 10-10A, under development with a flight for the first time in 2026 and plans to work to transport the crew and goods to the Tiangong satellite station in China.

It was a crowded summer: in June, the spacecraft in China – the key to its lunar ambitions – passed a flight test. Meanwhile, last month witnessed the launch of the ninth spacecraft for the Tianzhou-Series series, Tianzhou-9, to Tiangong Space.

Along the way, Beijing has repeated its plans to land on the astronauts on the moon before 2030 for scientific exploration-directly throwing in the glove, as NASA’s Artemis program has also identified that there is now a mission in Ridder, after there were successes in the United States. Apollo program.

But question marks remain both NASA’s choices for lunar Anders. The Spacex category has achieved noisy records per year so far, which may still justify the testing of the test on August 24. Blue origin at the same time is still the development of Mark 2 Lander and only intends to test the tuberculosis – brand 1 – later this year. Jeff Bizos missile, which will carry Landers himself, is only subject to his second trip next month.

The increasing importance of the US private companies in their space progress is noticeable, but not unique. While many space scene in China is dominated by China-owned and technology company in China, commercial players such as Galactic Energy, Landspace and I-SPace- should not be confused with ISPace in Japan-ascending to the painting.

“I think China can overcome NASA to the moon,” Professor Quinin Parker, Laboratory Director for Space Research at Hong Kong University told CNBC via email.

“The Artemis project in NASA faces tremendous delays, budget problems and leadership issues under the current administration in the United States. This leaves a distinct possibility that China can land humans on the surface of the moon first.”

As with the first space race, at stake is not just the position of patriotism – US officials and analysts expressed their concerns that space ambitions in China are inevitably related to militarization. It has not been long since since then Spring comments It is General Chinese Soltikman, head of space operations in the American space force, that (the People’s Republic of China) is developing what we have a kind of tongue in the cheek, called “on the Internet.” It is nothing more than a network of hundreds of satellites that is a sensor network that provides real time updates targeting our quality information. “

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