Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 28, 2019 Title: How to Build a Space Power? This white paper paints a new picture
Xinhua News Agency reporters Hu Zhe, Song Chen and Zhang Quan
In the past five years, what important breakthroughs has China's aerospace made in its journey to the sea of stars? In the next five years, with major projects as the traction to enhance the efficiency of aerospace science and technology innovation, what new goals does China's aerospace have?
On the morning of the 28th, the Information Office of the State Council released the fifth white paper on china's aerospace industry, "China's Aerospace in 2021", with the construction of a space power as the main line, introducing the main progress of China's space activities since 2016 and the main tasks in the next five years, and further enhancing the international community's understanding of China's space industry.
This is the white paper "2021 China's Aerospace" filmed on January 28. On the same day, the Information Office of the State Council released the white paper "2021 China's Aerospace" and held a press conference in Beijing. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liangkuai
Accelerating Innovation and Development Major aerospace projects are full of highlights
In the past five years, China's aerospace industry has accelerated its innovative development. Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, introduced that a new generation of non-toxic and non-polluting carrier rockets represented by the Long March 5 have been put into use, and commercial carrier rockets have emerged, forming a diversified launch capacity on land and at sea, since 2016, as of December 2021, a total of 207 launches have been implemented, and the success rate of the Long March rocket launch is 96.7%.
In addition, the mainland's major aerospace projects are also full of bright spots. 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.
In rural and remote areas, communication satellites have opened live television for more than 140 million households, providing services such as distance education, telemedicine, and rural e-commerce to help alleviate poverty and revitalize rural areas; in the fields of mass travel, smart logistics, ocean transportation, precision agriculture, etc., the Beidou system is widely used to provide accurate positioning and navigation for material transportation and personnel flow; in the face of diversified needs such as meteorological forecasting, land planning, ecological protection, marine economy, disaster emergency, etc., remote sensing satellite images have accumulated and distributed more than 100 million views...
"At present, there are more than 500 satellites of various types working in orbit on the mainland, and aerospace technology and services are deeply integrated into economic and social development, playing an important role in supporting the construction of safe China, healthy China, beautiful China and digital China." Wu Yanhua said.
Promoting high-quality development In the "14th Five-Year Plan", China's aerospace industry still has these major events
Fully build and operate the Chinese space station, implement the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, deepen the demonstration of the manned lunar landing plan, and develop and launch a new generation of manned carrier rockets... Wu Yanhua said that in the next five years, China Aerospace will follow the principles of innovation leadership, collaborative and efficient, peaceful development, cooperation and sharing, anchor the goal of building a space power, take the high-quality development of space as the theme, promote the comprehensive development of space science, space technology and space applications, and continue to enhance the comprehensive capabilities of scientific cognition, free entry and exit, efficient use and effective governance of space.
The first is to promote the completion of existing major projects. Including the launch of the "Qingtian" experimental module, the "Mengtian" experimental module, as well as the "Shenzhou" manned spacecraft and the "Tianzhou" cargo spacecraft, the Chinese space station has been fully completed and operated. A high-resolution Earth observation system has been fully constructed. Maintain the stable operation of the Beidou system and promote industrial applications.
The second is to implement new major projects. Including the implementation of the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, the development and launch of the Chang'e-6 and Chang'e-7 probes, the implementation of lunar polar environment and resource exploration, lunar polar sampling and other tasks. Implement planetary exploration projects to carry out orbital detection, attachment and sampling and return of asteroids. Deepen the demonstration of the manned lunar landing plan, and consolidate the foundation for manned exploration and development of the Earth-moon space.
The third is to improve the ability to enter and exit space. This includes promoting the development of the carrier rocket type spectrum, developing and launching a new generation of manned carrier rockets, and accelerating the development of heavy carrier rocket projects. Continue to carry out key technologies for reuse of space transportation systems and demonstrate and verify them.
The fourth is to continuously improve space infrastructure. On the basis of the implementation of the national civil space infrastructure plan, promote the development of remote sensing, communications, and navigation satellite integration technologies, and accelerate the improvement of space information service capabilities of ubiquitous connectivity, accurate time and space, and full-dimensional perception.
Fifth, overall planning of space science satellites and technology test satellites. Continue to carry out forward-looking exploration and basic research in the field of space science, and verify and improve advanced technologies such as on-orbit services and maintenance, and near-Earth asteroid monitoring and protection.
The input-output ratio can reach "1:10" Aerospace will further enter thousands of households
Aerospace technology is an important embodiment of a country's comprehensive development level of science and technology, and the development of aerospace technology should not only promote the leapfrog development of space science and space technology, but also transform the achievements of scientific and technological innovation into a realistic driving force for promoting economic and social development.
"The country attaches great importance to the development of space, and the investment in the development of space technology is relatively high, but the spillover benefits of space applications are very large." According to preliminary statistics, the input-output ratio of 1:10 can be reached. The application of new aerospace technology has brought about great changes in industrial development and has an obvious pulling effect on the development of the national economy. Zhao Jian, director of the Earth Observation and Data Center of the China National Space Administration, said.
In addition, the white paper also pointed out that it is necessary to study and formulate guidelines for the development of commercial space and promote the rapid development of commercial space. Recently, six low-orbit broadband communication satellites developed by the mainland's private space enterprise Galaxy Aerospace have been launched from its self-built satellite research and development production line, completed the factory review, and arrived at the launch site, and will be launched in the first quarter of 2022.
Zhang Shijie, chief scientist of Galaxy Aerospace, said: "The increase in the number of satellites, the abundance of platforms, the improvement of performance, and the commercialization and low cost of satellite manufacturing continue to enrich the application scenarios of satellites. ”
At present, aerospace applications have been widely used in various fields of economic and social development such as land resources, environmental protection, disaster prevention and mitigation, and the application of new technologies derived has also entered thousands of households, and the people have also experienced the beautiful life created by aerospace science and technology.
"Building a safe China, a healthy China, a beautiful China, and a digital China has become an important part of a socialist modern power. China Aerospace will actively support and serve the national strategy and continuously improve the efficiency of development efficiency. Xu Hongliang, spokesman for the China National Space Administration, said.
Source: Xinhua Net