Lol the future of what ? People are starving in China do to these trips. Man cannot live in outer space regardless of how you spin it. There’s a reason why we live here on earth. Maybe if they had another earth so far there’s zero evidence of such dreams. Lol the future…..
A exciting and excellent summary of important Chinese rocket milestones in 2022. Great examples in the videos chosen for this summary. For me, overlooked coverage of Lunar and Mars rovers/satellites milestones. (perhaps that's a different video) Example China’s Zhurong Mars rover did subsurface analysis finding hints of repeated catastrophic floods of water. A very significant finding. Not to be outdone, Chang'e 5 lunar lander also found water at its landing site in a historic realtime first.
All good points, I think some of the findings of Zhurong and CE5 samples could have been mentioned for sure. Also, the successive announcements of the institutes receiving CE5 samples for study gave interesting insights on what is being researched.
Wow! A lot of things happened in 2022 while I was working in the insurance industry and starting a master's degree in international trade)). Thanks for summarizing everything in only 10 minutes. I haven't been watching as faithfully as before. What happened to your sidekick Blaine? I haven't seen him on the Dongfang hour in some time((.
Hey Hana! Glad to see you in the comment section. Lots of stuff happening in Chinese space in 2022 indeed! Blaine's been spending more time on his business in HK and less on the channel. I think we figured out that in the end, pre-recorded videos was less his thing compared to more spontaneous formats like podcasts or live events. But he's said he would be happy to join a live stream, so be on a look out for that in 2023 😉 By the way, I don't know if I have ever mentioned this before, you've been the single most important follower to this channel since we started making videos. Around episode twenty-something, you left a comment saying "Great episode, but it's not always fun to stare at your faces during 20 minutes" 😂 And that's when we starting making big changes and putting efforts into editing/2D motion graphics/etc. Which coincided with the growth of the channel! I wish you the best for 2023 and your master degree. Cheers Jean
I do remember Jean! This 2022 recap has indeed lots of megacool video. I hope we can meet at a future space conference. I hope to attend IAC 2023 in October in Baku). Do you attend space conferences?
Great video, as the others from 2022, I learned a lot, thank you! One thing I am very interested in is nuclear power in space and China seems to be actively pursuing this. Maybe a topic for a future video...
The China is bloody amazing with its growth in Space developments. It is doing wonders in expanding our understanding of Space crafts, Extra Planetary landings, its Scientific Space station, and its satellite constellations. Also, the China is able to launch and welcome back their own Taikonauts. Well done the China.
Yes … it was a very good year. Now more than anything, China needs to ramp up reusable rocket technology in 2023. Low cost payload per pound to orbit improves and accelerates all other space efforts.
Thanks for your summary! Would you like to make a video about the plan made in 2022 that China will develop 9 new rocket engines in the next 8 years (八年九机) ? (Apart from that, there will be some improvements of old engines, like YF-100K. )
Hmm that sounds like a good idea! I've always wanted to make a video on Chinese engines (similar to what Tim Dodd did for soviet rocket engines) but have not yet had the courage due to the amount of work involved.
Great round up! If I could suggest one thing; the volume of your voice trails off at the end of every sentence at the end of a paragraph. Keep it constant throughout for clarity.
Given developments of the CZ-5G and the presumed aim to land on the Moon by 2030, can you do a future episode that looks at how the Chinese space programme is governed by the five-year plan system -- how they fit into the current plan, the next plan (which will exist already in a draft form), and the following plan (which will be aspirational at this stage). It's been a notable feature of the Chinese space programme over the past three decades how the initial Shenzhou programme, and more recently the space station programme, have developed almost exactly along the lines of each subsequent five-year plan. Is there any reason to think that the same will not hold for a lunar landing programme?
Unmanned soft landing on the moon (Chang'E-3, -4, and -5, Yutu-1 and -2 rovers), soft landing on Mars, and China Space Station: I don't think these programmes were governed by the five-year plan system. They've requested for designs and proposals, and chosen the relatively conservative but extensible options that are most likely to materialize (yet such options had something new compared to other countries, such as the Tianwen-1 + Zhurong rover in one mission). They made affirmative announcements only when they've started testing the corresponding engines. The planned dates are often conservative and that is why the timelines were met exactly.
@@wchengvision Interesting. Does this mean there was a policy change by the government/CCP prior to the space station, lunar and Mars exploration programmes? Are there now two separate planning (and funding?) processes? How do they relate one to the other, since the five-year plan system still exists and still refers to such programmes (although the current one is lacking in detail)? I was under the impression that the five-year plan system remained dominant -- or does the CCP now regard such a structure as too restrictive?
@@EdwardRLyons CNSA, as a technocratic institution, made the planning according to the development needs or demands of China. The five-year plan, as a national political / economic / social agenda, has a section about space programs, and the texts were borrowed from CNSA's plans which got approved. Not the reverse.
@@EdwardRLyons Project-based planning is quite achievable (e.g., engines they are testing and subtypes they are developing in the coming years, next steps for the manned space program, next steps for the planetary exploration program). CSNA's white paper is an agenda or summary. For example, if CNSA says that they will promote the commercial launchers, the white paper may not tell every exact step other than briefly mentioning the commercial launch pads and commercial satellites. By following the news of engines, fans realize that the kerolox YF-102 engine could be the one that is being developed to provide commercial launchers with more than just solid-fuel propulsion units.
China has great challenges ahead and it is facing them appropriately. Lifting a significant part of its population out of extreme poverty, food security, technological and scientific development, space travel, etc.
Hmmm I would be cautious about this info, especially since Wu Yansheng only discusses this topic during a couple of seconds. Just a few months prior, the head of the Tiawen-1 Mars program Sun Zezhou had presented detailed timeline proposals for Tianwen-3 (MSR) between 2028 and 2031. So while Wu Yansheng's speech is definitely not a good sign, I think we need to wait for more info in 2023 before getting to a conclusion 🤔
Hey Hector, Quite a bit, yes, although I didn't mention it in this episode. In June, CAST published a paper detailing their timeline, with milestones in 2028, 2030, 2035 and 2050. The first two milestones are relatively low power experiments in LEO and GEO (although in GEO they're looking at 100kW to 1MW already...). Chief designer of the space station systems Y. Hong also confirmed that there would be an SSPS experiment performed with the CSS. Long Lehao has also hinted multiple times this year that the Long March 9 rocket won't just be used for deep space exploration, and will a role in the deployment of SSPS hardware. I'll probably do a dedicated episode on this topic in 2023 🙂
