Lunar exploration in China at this stage has an important scientific research status, it and manned spaceflight is one of the sixteen major scientific and technological projects in China, at present China has completed the lunar exploration of the detour back to the three stages of the task, according to the National Space Administration Wu Yanhua said, China's lunar exploration project phase IV has also been approved, the next lunar exploration phase iv plan will be gradually carried out.
The future lunar exploration phase IV includes Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7 and Chang'e 8 three exploration missions (Chang'e 4 also belongs to the lunar exploration phase IV, but has been implemented), will be implemented in the next ten years, the implementation order is currently tentatively set to first launch the Chang'e 7 probe to the lunar south pole, for topography and soil composition and other related scientific research exploration, and then launch the backup of Chang'e 5 - Chang'e 6 to the lunar south pole, it will perform a lunar soil sampling return mission similar to Chang'e 5, and then launch Chang'e 8, It will go to build the basic type of lunar research station, and it is worth noting that its construction plan will be 8 years ahead of the original plan.
The construction plan of the lunar research station was originally until 2035, but at present, the relevant persons in charge of lunar exploration in China and Russia have said that this plan will be at least 8 years in advance, that is, it will be built or even completed around 2027.
The lunar research station project will be jointly built by China and Russia, and the two countries have signed a cooperation and operation agreement, which will also help both sides reduce costs and improve their ability to deal with risks, and the earlier agreement was set for the construction of scientific research stations in the mid-2930s, that is, around 2035. However, now that it has changed to 2027, why is it 8 years ahead of schedule? Here we have to say about the "Artemis" return to the moon program initiated by the United States.
"Artemis plan" is officially approved in the United States in 2017, plans to send American astronauts to the moon in 2024, and build some large facilities in the lunar orbit and the lunar surface, after the plan was established, the United States pulled a bunch of "little brothers", including the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Canada and other 11 countries, let everyone help fund, and stand for the future moon activities to make rules, this is the later "Artemis Agreement", The agreement would allow governments or private companies to set up so-called safe zones on the lunar surface that would prohibit other countries or private companies from entering them, nominally to protect their facilities or "heritage," but in reality to "race around."
Zhang Chongfeng, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, said that this challenges existing international agreements, including the United, National Moon Agreement, because the moon belongs to all mankind, not a specific party. In response, he said in a paper published in Shanghai Aerospace in June that China will take some forward-looking measures to deal with the hegemonic plans of the United States and Japan and other countries, and decided to deploy lunar exploration missions such as lunar research stations in advance.
This lunar research station will be a nuclear-powered lunar research station, it will first be placed as unmanned equipment to the lunar surface of the south pole of the moon, when the manned lunar landing project is implemented, astronauts will be able to settle in this lunar research station, its role is like the role of the space station in space, can meet the astronauts' long-term stay.
This lunar research station will also be equipped with a mobile base station, it can also be said that it is a large lunar rover, which can walk freely on the lunar surface for a long time, manipulate its walking and exploration work through its own and the signal transmission and reception equipment of the lunar research station, and the detection data can be forwarded by the lunar research station to the relay satellite and then transmitted back to the earth, so it is also a large mobile detection equipment.
The picture above and below is a concept map of Lexus's moon car
When astronauts come to the lunar research station, they can also take this lunar rover to walk quickly on the lunar surface, so it is equivalent to the first car that China has reached the lunar surface, at least more than 1,000 kilometers, if we have to compete in the "race", we will not lose to anyone.
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