Just one day after the UAE ‘Hope Probe’ went into orbit about Mars the Chinese spacecraft named ‘Tianwen -1’ translated as ‘Heavenly Questions’ has gone into the Martian orbit about the planet. It includes and orbiter, lander and a Mars rover.
To read more about China’s Mars mission in English please go to:
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html
To read more about China’s Mars mission in Chinese please go to:
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn
To read see and read all about the first image taken by the spacecraft please go to:
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/n6465652/n6465653/c6811227/content.html
More information on the mission at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-1
Now for something different an excellent podcast from South China Morning Post:
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission and its fast-growing space industry
SCMP journalist Nadeem Shad speaks with freelance space journalist and China space industry expert Andrew Jones about the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, and the audacious plan to deliver a vehicle to the Martian surface. Hear how the other missions being sent by NASA and the United Arab Emirates are not a new 'space race', and how it might just take FBI permission to allow an American spacecraft to communicate with a Chinese one.
Hear also why 2020 was one of the busiest years in China's history of space travel - and how it is embracing the commercial market to private companies keen to launch vehicles into space. #scmppodcasts
To read more about China’s Mars mission in English please go to:
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html
To read more about China’s Mars mission in Chinese please go to:
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn
To read see and read all about the first image taken by the spacecraft please go to:
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/n6465652/n6465653/c6811227/content.html
More information on the mission at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-1
Now for something different an excellent podcast from South China Morning Post:
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission and its fast-growing space industry
SCMP journalist Nadeem Shad speaks with freelance space journalist and China space industry expert Andrew Jones about the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, and the audacious plan to deliver a vehicle to the Martian surface. Hear how the other missions being sent by NASA and the United Arab Emirates are not a new 'space race', and how it might just take FBI permission to allow an American spacecraft to communicate with a Chinese one.
Hear also why 2020 was one of the busiest years in China's history of space travel - and how it is embracing the commercial market to private companies keen to launch vehicles into space. #scmppodcasts
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