China's plan is revealed in "white paper" issued by the Chinese government once every five years. In the white paper, China revealed several target achievement in the field of space in the next five years.
As reported by Forbes, Friday, December 30, 2011, there are three major focus of China's space.
The first focus is to make more laboratory space and astronaut flight. The success of China's biggest this year is to merge the two modules in earth orbit space, ie laboratory and Tiangong-1 spacecraft Shenzhou 8.
Both of these modules is the starting point of China in making their own space station. In the next five years, China will more often send astronauts into space this laboratory. To that end, China must first improve the technology and means of supporting the lives of astronauts in orbit.
China's second target is to improve the system performance of the space shuttle rocket launcher. China is currently developing a new generation rocket system of the Long March-5. This type of rocket exhaust gases is claimed does not remove toxic and does not create pollution, and able to fly a load of up to 25 tons into Earth orbit or 14 tons into GEO orbit.
In addition to the Long March-5, China also is developing a rocket Long March 6 and 7. The second rocket is a rocket high-speed response that used to fly up to orbit the sun. To support this technology, China has almost completed the launch terminal in Hainan. This location was chosen because it is closest to the earth's equator, shortening the distance to the orbit.
The third target is the target of the most ambitious of China, namely planetary exploration technology improves and becomes the second country in the world to land astronauts on the moon, after the United States. Besides the moon, China too will do the exploration of Mars, asteroids and the sun.
No kidding, in the realization of this target, China has launched two spacecraft orbiting the Earth in 2007 and 2010. The next stage, China will send nirawak vehicle to the moon to take soil samples and air, then back again to earth. All this is done China as preparation before sending humans to the moon.
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