The National Space Administration announced on October 2 that at the 74th International Astronautical Congress, China's Chang'e-5 team won the "Lawrence Team Award", which is the highest team honor of the International Academy of Astronautics. At this conference, the National Space Administration announced that Chang'e-5 lunar scientific research samples will be open to international applications, and scientists from all over the world are welcome to jointly research and share the results.
Established in 2001, the "Lawrence Team Award" is one of the two major awards issued by the International Academy of Astronautics every year, aiming to recognize aerospace project teams that have made outstanding achievements in the field of aeronautics, mainly in three aspects: technological innovation, scientific discovery and international cooperation.
Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of the lunar exploration project of the National Space Administration and chief designer of the Chang'e-5 mission: What I feel very prominent is the recognition of China's space development by international peers, and the recognition of the process we have experienced, including the results achieved, the significance and impact of the lunar exploration.
Chang'e-5 was the continent's first unmanned lunar sampling and return mission, which was the most complex and technical space system project on the continent at that time. In one fell swoop, breakthroughs were made in key technologies such as lunar surface sampling, lunar take-off and ascent, lunar orbit rendezvous and docking and sample transfer, and jump re-entry return. After an interlocking flight, 1731 grams of lunar samples were brought back, becoming the world's largest single sampling volume of unmanned lunar sampling mission.
Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of the lunar exploration project of the National Space Administration and chief designer of the Chang'e-5 mission: The lunar sample should now be said to be recognized internationally by everyone, and some foreign experts and research institutions also very much hope to get this sample to carry out scientific research. We are organizing a study of procedures and methods for how to implement these things, gradually opening up to the international community, and international colleagues can also participate in the study of the samples we have taken from the moon.
Hu Hao introduced that in accordance with the requirements of the National Space Administration's "Measures for the Management of Lunar Samples" and the "Rules for the Administration of International Cooperation on Lunar Samples and Scientific Data", the application steps for Chang'e-5 lunar scientific research samples open to the world are: online registration, filling in application materials, letter review, defense, review, signing of agreements, collection, return, etc., and the specific requirements and procedures will be published on the website of the National Space Administration.
The research of Chang'e-5 lunar samples has obtained a number of original results
At present, the National Space Administration has completed the distribution of 6 batches of 258 lunar samples with a total of 77.68 grams to Chinese scientists. He has published more than 70 papers in authoritative journals at home and abroad. Through the study of lunar samples, it was determined that the formation time of young basalt was 2.030 billion years, which is 800 million years longer than previously understood.
Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of the National Space Administration's lunar exploration project and chief designer of the Chang'e-5 mission: The location where we landed, the active period of the moon and the original research on samples obtained by other countries are different. Our younger landing site provides more evidence of activity on the moon and plays an important role in expanding our understanding of the moon.
The mainland has accelerated the promotion of the international lunar scientific research station
Through the previously completed three-step mission of "circling, falling and returning" of the lunar exploration project, the continent has the ability to do various technical verifications on the moon, which also lays the foundation for going to farther planets in the future. Lunar exploration is a stepping stone for Chinese to deep space.
Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of the National Space Administration's lunar exploration project and chief designer of the Chang'e-5 mission: We can not only go to the moon, but also conduct general inspection and exploration around the moon, we can also go to the moon to drive the "Jade Rabbit" lunar rover, and we can also return to the earth from the moon after rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit. This series of technical support ensures that we go to other planets to expand our human footsteps.
In addition, collecting samples from the moon can deepen human understanding of the moon and provide important technical support for the further use of the moon.
Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of the China National Space Administration's lunar exploration project and chief designer of the Chang'e-5 mission: It should be said that the results achieved in the past 20 years of lunar exploration are still very worthwhile. The purpose of our exploration is to apply, the subsequent application of the moon, and the use of its environmental conditions will play an important role in the subsequent scientific service, economic service, and social development service.
The National Space Administration said that the continent is accelerating the promotion of the international lunar scientific research station big science project, and at present, the cooperation initiative has been actively participated and responded to by nearly 20 countries and international organizations around the world.
Source: CCTV Finance