On January 28, the State Council New Office held a press conference on the relevant situation of the "2021 China Aerospace" white paper, and the upstream news (report mailbox: [email protected]) reporter learned from the press conference that from 2016 to December 2021, a total of 207 launches were carried out, and the success rate of the Long March rocket launch was 96.7%.
▲Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the National Space Administration. Image source/Guoxin.com
Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, introduced at the press conference that the past five years have been five years of china's aerospace innovation and development. Carrier rockets to accelerate the upgrading, a new generation of non-toxic and non-polluting carrier rockets represented by the Long March 5 have been put into use, commercial carrier rockets continue to emerge, forming a diversified launch capability on land and sea, from 2016 to December 2021, a total of 207 launches were implemented, and the success rate of the Long March rocket launch was 96.7%. Major aerospace projects are full of highlights and harvests. The construction of the Chinese space station was fully implemented, and 6 astronauts were stationed successively, opening the era of long-term residence of people. The lunar exploration project "orbiting, falling, and returning" was successfully concluded, Chang'e 4 landed on the back of the moon for the first time to inspect the probe, and Chang'e 5 brought back 1731 grams of lunar soil. Tianwen-1 achieved the leap of China's spacecraft from the Earth-Moon system to interplanetary exploration, leaving a Chinese imprint on Mars for the first time. Space infrastructure has been continuously improved, the Beidou global satellite navigation system has been completed and opened, and the high-resolution Earth observation system has formed a system capability.
Wu Yanhua said that in the next five years, the Chinese space station and high-resolution Earth observation system will be built, new major projects such as the fourth phase of lunar exploration and planetary exploration will be implemented, the development of heavy carrier rockets will be promoted, the risk response system for near-Earth asteroid impacts will be built, key projects such as marginal exploration of the solar system will be cultivated, the spectral development of carrier rocket types will be promoted, and the national space infrastructure of communication, navigation, remote sensing satellites and the integration of heaven and earth will be continuously improved, and the spatial environment governance system will be improved.
Upstream journalist Li Hongpeng
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