China's "Space Century" --20 Rockets Launched & 25 Satellites in Space by 2012

China has announced that they will have launched 20 rockets and 25 satellites into space by the end of 2011, indicating that the country's space exploration is "highly intensive," an aerospace expert said Sunday.

"This year, we are supposed to launch 20 rockets and 25 satellites, a number that would put China in second place after Russia," said Yuan Jiajun, deputy general manager of China Aerospace and Technology Corp., confirming confirms that China's space projects have entered a stage of high-intensity development and launching.

He did not clarify how many satellites and rockets have been launched in the first 10 months of 2011.

China launched 15 rockets to send 20 satellites to space in 2010, comparable numbers to the United States and Russia, historically the world's two most prolific launchers of spacecraft, according to Yuan. "It is an arduous process and a great challenge for us to cope with the high intensity of satellite launching," Yuan said. "It requires us to be equipped with sufficient capacity."

At the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest Gobi desert, a total of eight satellites will be launched within the year along with the country's first space lab module, Tiangong-1, which blasted off in September to await docking with the spacecraft Shenzhou-8, ready to take off in early November from the same launch base.

While preparation work for the launch of Shenzhou-8 is in its final stages, testing on another satellite is going on at the same time at the assembly and testing center, 1.5 km away from the launch pad.

Cui Jijun, director of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, said the high intensity that his team was expected to maintain had "become a normal status of our daily work. The high-intensity launching has become normalized while it was only periodical years ago."

As one of China's three satellite launch bases in use, the Jiuquan site has undertaken the majority of China's launching missions.

"Just like TV sets are assembled in plants around the clock, our daily work of launching satellites is quite normal and it is our duty," Cui said.

To cope with increased demand over the years, equipment has been dramatically upgraded and the numbers of personnel increased, Cui said. He noted, however, that China's space technologies still lag behind the advanced levels of some countries.

The Daily Galaxy via news.xinhuanet.com

Comments

[Joe]

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[Velocity_Wave]

One reason China has to launch a lot now, is because they are effectively playing catch-up with the USA. (The US has decades worth of satellites and launches ahead of China.)

Also, the lull in US launches now may simply be just that: a temporary lull before the storm, when US private industry effectively takes over the space-race.

Boeing will soon be moving many operations to Florida and is moving into several key NASA development-buildings and office-buildings. Space-X's launches have been highly successful.

Despite all the troubles of the USA, I believe the safe bet is that the USA is on the threshold of kick starting the next major economic and world-changing expansion wave, as private industry takes us into space.

But just as previous US expansion bursts have benefited the rest of the world (ie: computers, Internet) so too shall this next wave likely benefit all nations.

And just like with computers and the Internet, it won't take long for other countries to pick up on the wave, and make their own unique contributions.

[Dr. Penthouse]

China is swimming in cash, whilst the US is heavily indebted and has to cut everywhere possible. This is what happens when there is no cheap and easily accessible credit for everyone, the whole system begins to collapse. So China will catch up to the west militarily and everywhere else, and who would've thought communism and dictatorship would be victorious in the end?

[deepan]

if it continues China will be super power and become World No1 in 2020

[woundedduck]

China will not become a world power comparable to the U.S. after WW2. Global warming is going to be a serious challenge to its economic development, plus, China is one of the most economically imbalanced nations. They can't feed a huge percentage of their population, and as happened in Tienanmen Square, those hungry mouths will not remain docile forever.

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