the new space race between the U.S and
China has taken an unexpected turn
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space is hard
space is risky
biggest challenge to U.S space Supremacy
is not from Russia it is now from China
sometimes they surprise you because
they'll tell you everything
voila they put up a space station
the new space race one in which China
might quickly overtake the United States
is it going to be commercial military uh
is it going to be scientific
it's what it is
the agenda is ambitious and expensive
we thought the U.S won the space race of
course it's going on us now there is a
whole new one underway and China is a
vital part of that
competition is always good
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this year China completes its own
permanent space station and for the
first time is operating as a peer to the
United States in space
it is a big leap forward for the country
Space Program which is slowly but surely
cementing itself as a celestro super
power
for years China Space Program played
second fiddle to the United States but
not anymore but the new Space Station
completed China can advance their future
space goals such as building a base on
the moon and exploring Mars
the Chinese have a very aggressive Space
Program just within the last six months
they've landed on Mars they're only the
second Nation to have landed on Mars now
we've been on the surface of Mars since
the 1970s
but they're the second
look what they've done just a few weeks
ago they now launched a space station
and now they have it occupied with their
titanauts
this announcement that they're
partnering with Russia that should give
us pause as well because Russia has been
our partner when they were the Soviet
Union in 1975 when we had Apollo soyuz
and they have built the International
Space Station with us and my opinion is
that they will continue to be our
partner on the International Space
Station we've got to watch
a new space race with the Chinese
government
competition is always good nearly 1 000
scientific experiments planned aboard
the tiangon could benefit pharmaceutical
fundamental disease and Engineering
research on planet Earth toothpaste 3D
printing Alzheimer's and detecting
shifting sands on Mars may not seem
related to each other at all yet each
stands to benefit from improvements made
thanks to the research aboard the space
station China Now controls the only
working space station other than the
larger International Space Station I
would say definitely having its own
large and long-term space station is is
a big move I think that's definitely a
big a big step forward the ISS is
potentially going to be decommissioned
in the next few years which could make
this even more significant National
Space Station retires the Chinese space
station will be the only permanent space
station in low earth orbit it means that
China could have a very strong global
presence and influence
the ISS which is run jointly by the
United States the European Space Agency
Russia and others this creates
diplomatic challenges
Russia has announced it will leave the
International Space Station after 2024
and launch its own new space station
soon afterwards
as you know we operate in international
cooperation at the International Space
Station without a doubt we will fulfill
all our obligations to our partners but
the decision to withdraw from the
station after 2024 has been taken I
think by this time we will start to form
a Russian orbital station you were taken
by surprise by the public statement that
went out it's an unfortunate development
given the critical scientific work
performed at the ISS the valuable
professional collaboration our space
agencies have had over the years and
especially in light of our renewed
agreement on space flight cooperation
the move isn't necessarily surprising
the decision is a major blow to the
international collaboration in Space the
United States must now figure out how to
run station without its law long time
Partners help right now for instant
Russia controls the Space Station's
propulsion Control Systems which provide
regular boosts that keep the ISS upright
and prevent the station from falling out
of orbit without Russia's help that
machinery would presumably need to be
handed over to NASA or replaced so the
future of space may not be as
collaborative or International as it
once was is this world diplomacy playing
out in space in 2011 the U.S Congress
citing National Security concerns has
the law that effectively prohibits NASA
from collaborating with China on Space
research locking Beijing out of any
partnership
I will tell you according to American
law it is very challenging to have any
kind of partnership with China I think
that the United States in some areas has
sort of approach this issue with a
sledgehammer and just simply barred
interacting with the Chinese in various
ways which I don't think served the
interest of the United States there
should be cooperation in the exploration
of space with due regard to limits
input is fine
Chinese astronauts are also banned from
visiting the international species China
is not part of the International Space
Station they're primarily political
around issues of truster and Technology
transfer which is driven principally by
the United States in some ways it's been
extremely beneficial to China because
given China the impetus and the
political will to move forward with
their own very ambitious space endeavors
this year it will complete building its
own space station becoming a major
player in space exploration
now China has a good and a very
aggressive program just look at what all
they've done recently and also
they tell you what they're gonna do
they're going to put three Landers on
the South Pole
they said they're coming and they're
going to land with humans on the moon
sometimes they surprise you because they
don't tell you everything
so
voila
they put up a space station
and then it doesn't take too long that
they suddenly put up
tiger nuts
I hope we can cooperate
the U.S objections over the Chinese
program's secreted nature enclosed
military ties fuel China who take action
China embarked on the long journey to
reach the point of building its space
station and here are the highlights
China has big Ambitions for the tiangong
the station has its own power propulsion
life support systems and living quarters
when you're the last kid on the Block
you have the opportunity to do things at
the last minute with the best technology
around if you're not using a liquid or
solid fuel propellant for your proposal
then you're not carrying that weight
then that's the same China space agency
says its propulsion system is about five
times more efficient and powerful than
the international space stations
so it's also designed to provide
refueling power to China's new Space
Telescope a bit like the Hubble Space
Telescope but this um will have an
enormously large camera which can look
at 300 times the field of view of the
Hubble Space Telescope in one hit which
will fly close to the space and will
eventually be fully operational by 2024.
named jutian which translates to survey
the heavens the telescope will have a
two meter diameter mirror like Hubble
but will also have a field view of 300
times greater
this telescope will aim to survey 40 of
the sky over 10 years using its huge 2.5
billion pixel camera how is that for
innovation
compared to the 16 module ISS China's
orbiting platforms is a modest machine
a Chinese space station could
potentially be expanded to six modules
if everything goes according to plan
it's definitely smaller but it's also
built in a more efficient way in some
areas which will make it I guess in
terms of sort of bang for its Buck the
research output should be quite
significant so if one module has filed
catastrophically or it's no longer
Cutting Edge you can detach it and just
reattach a new one
Tian gong is inclusive and designed to
be adaptable for non-chinese astronauts
and at least 1 000 scientific
experiments will be conducted in the
station including projects led by
researchers from 17 other countries and
regions like Kenya Russia Mexico Japan
and Peru some of which are struggling to
support their own space programs
main goals the first one would be sort
of scientific scientific research and
there's a lot of different experiments
that are going to be conducted on tangon
3. well it shows that they have a
independent kind of space station out
there which is a platform to have these
experiments and prepare astronauts for
the next step so it's a very big deal so
this is the Chinese space station of
course and and so now this space station
will be doing maybe 1000 experiments for
a stretch of 10 years
far-reaching experiments from
indications that tumors cancer tumors
grow or stop growing in space which will
test that then there is does fire behave
differently in zero gravity or or in
vacuum how do plants and seeds how do
they sprout in space what is the
behavior in zero gravity
what is the decay of their muscles and
their bones so um so because you know
the same astronauts are the different
astronauts will go to Mars one way and
they have to stay away from Earth and
zero gravity for two years
China's willingness to partner with
other countries may be cementing its
place as a space Power today since 2016
China has made 46 space cooperation
agreements with 19 countries and regions
so for China international cooperation
in space means its space capacity has
legitimacy and second it can build
influence the completion of the Chinese
space station by 2022 that will be a
competitive alignment for countries that
want to choose which space station they
would launch their experiments on
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including its base capacity and
partnership building under the belt and
Road initiative space information
Corridor so once you become a member you
will actually have a return of economic
benefits so you can see that very
quietly China is actually building this
very interesting partnership structure
which is open-ended but it also builds
in dependency
is this the start of the space Road
initiative
China still has many other
extraterrestrial Ambitions in the
pipeline
within the next decade it plans to build
a base at the moon's southern tip and
from there deploy a telescope with 300
times the field a view of the Hubble it
also intends to collect samples from
Mars
it's the steady progress of the Chinese
space program that worries the United
States politicians and Senior military
officials
well what happens if they suddenly get
there and we're not there
and Mr Nelson is looking for more money
for NASA which is a great program and
should be funded more but using this
kind of uh sort of fear-mongering I
don't think is a good way to go about it
some believe the US is falling behind
the new space race echoing rhetoric
reminiscent of the Cold War but the moon
as the Finish Line once again
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