As the days go by, China seems to be making its way and creating its dominance in the space brotherhood. China has been developing space. The Xi-Jinping-led state isn’t just limited to space exploration, but plans to answer questions and doubts beyond its planetary form. Read More
China National Space Administration is trying to explore the solar system and that too for the long term. CNSA plans to send a spacecraft to study the edge of our solar system, which is about 15 billion kilometers away. CNSA plans to successfully implement the same before 2049. The eyes are also on the success of a moon mission. This will be more complicated compared to the upcoming Chang’e5 lunar space mission. It will be implemented in three phases, with Chang’e-6, Chang’e 7 and Chang’e 8 being the successors.
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What is Space Race and how did the concept originate?
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the two enemies of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capabilities. It originated in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race fought between the two nations after World War II. The Space Race has successfully championed and pioneered many notable launches. Including artificial satellites, robotic space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars, and human spaceflights into low Earth orbit and eventually to the Moon.
It started on 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded four days earlier to the US announcement of its intention to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year. The Soviet Union had won the competition when Russian pilot Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first man to reach space.
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