[FPSPACE] China space news: Own orbital station by 2020, manned lunar missions by 2030

[Charles Vick]

Dear All,

I think that this is not correct because if you understand the Five Year
Plan process this is precisely what they have stated consistently right
along for the second generation Salyut class space station to appear in the
middle to end of the 2016-2021 Five Year Plan while the Lunar effort is
planned for the 2021 - 2025 and 2016-2030 five year plans. Right now the
Lunar effort is in the long term plans for future development for government
consideration outside the normal three sets of five year plans IE: the
existing or next five year plan the next one the forecast five year plan
followed by the out plan. The next five year plan known as the forecast plan
is being set now to start January 1, 2011 through to Dec, 31, 2015 followed
by the January 1, 2016-Dec. 31, 2020 with the outlook plan following that of
the 2021-2025. So the Long Term Outlook plan of 2026-2030 is but a
discussion consideration issue to be settled by the government towards the
end of the next five year plan known as the present forecast plan.

Cpvick

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org
[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of John Charles
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:08 AM
To: Peter Pesavento
Cc: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] China space news: Own orbital station by 2020,manned
lunar missions by 2030

 

Peter,

Thanks for this interesting item.

First, we should be cautious about inferring changes to the Chinese

program schedule from a Russian press report based (no doubt) on a

Chinese press report.

Second, we should be cautious about inferring changes in the Chinese

lunar program schedule based on anything.  Many times the reports from

China are garbled by filtering through press releases and multiple

translations.

Third, we should not become either encouraged or disheartened by

reports of delays in Chinese lunar plans, as they are years in the

future, even less firmly scheduled than those of NASA, and--from my

reading--highly dependent on both the speaker and the audience.

John Charles

Houston, Texas

 

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Peter Pesavento<pjp961 at svol.net> wrote:

> From RIA Novosti (yes, the Russians of all people)

>

>

>

> Also..has the Chinese lunar landing timetable been pushed back?  I dimly

> thought it was to have been much earlier than 2030.

>

>

>

> http://en.rian.ru/science/20090831/155972965.html

>

>

>

>

>

> China to begin construction of orbital space station in 2020

>

>

>

> 13:5431/08/2009

>

> BEIJING, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - China will begin the construction of
its

> own orbital space station in 2020, the Sina news service said on Monday,

> citing a top official with the country's manned spaceflight program.

>

> Gu Yidong said that China would sent two or three space labs into orbit in

> 2010-2015, while the basic module of the space station is to be orbited by

> 2020.

>

> The spacecrafts will "form the basic orbital complex of the Chinese space

> station" when docked together, he said.

>

> According to earlier Chinese media reports, China plans to send a manned

> mission to the Moon by 2030 and subsequently build a lunar base to send

> missions to other planets in the Solar System, such as Mars. By 2050,
China

> plans to develop and launch a research probe to space bodies outside the

> Solar System.

>

> A Chinese astronaut conducted the country's first spacewalk last
September,

> making China the third country in the world after Russia and the United

> States to send a man into open space.

>

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> FPSPACE mailing list

> FPSPACE at friends-partners.org

> http://www.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo/fpspace

>

>

 

 

 

-- 

John Charles

Houston, Texas

_______________________________________________

FPSPACE mailing list

FPSPACE at friends-partners.org

http://www.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo/fpspace

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/fpspace/attachments/20090901/c45f7a79/attachment.html