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The United States, and lately Russia, space programs to the public for years in advance the details. In contrast, the Chinese are skillfully kept confidential specific information about their craft. This situation is mysterious Chinese space station program. The analysis of occasional sporadic reports of local and national media logic of technical judgment we can conclude that by launching the first Chinese space station may be divided and less than a year!
Mysterious space station named Tiangong-1 will be the first habitable laboratory populated with technical powers of the Far East. Concrete data on how the public does, but it seems very likely the next scenario.
At the end of the year China will rocket its derivative-carriers "long march" in space launch several tons of massive space station. Specifications will be observed that a small station, but an extremely important link in the further development of the local space program. In these times of Chinese engineers and worked on aeronautičari opremenju station and check all the installed systems to spacecraft in the universe did its job flawlessly. And that has accepted and several connecting and disconnecting an unmanned ship Shenzhou 8 (as used by the astronauts), in order to check the navigation system and demanding missions Hermetic merger spacecraft in orbit. For this purpose spacecraft is equipped with the Russian version of the system to connect (APAS). It is interesting to note that when the experimental flight of Shenzhou 8 placed German research modules that will later return to Earth in the return module.
Tiangong-1 is equipped with devices for navigation, orbit maintenance, solar panels, and several scientific research and military instruments. Among the ways this will certainly find the telescope, which will serve at least for the observation of space objects and to spy on Earth most of the tube. Two module, service module and a module for astronauts, cylindrical volume of a few tens of cubic meters form the basis for subsequent phases of development of large space stations in the coming years.
If they pass through months of experiments with Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 as planned, in 2011. We can expect the first crew at the station. Shenzhou-9 will be first piloted spaceship with a three-member crew whose task will be to examine whether indeed all right and who is potkrali deficiencies in the design and development of the station. It is likely that the twin Tiangong-1, which is used on Earth as technical support in the future become an independent, integral module of a larger Chinese space station, and there serve as a "safety boat" just in case. The Chinese, after the first few weeks of experimentation both spacecraft put into a kind of hibernation. During the course of the period they will be sent to Earth just basic telemetry and will be awakened a couple of weeks before returning to the Shenzhou-8 on Earth.
On the other hand, when the first astronauts to agree to China's space station where they will hold up to two weeks. Then you can Tiangong-1 remain in space long enough for the next big experiment; space station in orbit and the simultaneous launch of two piloted spacecraft with a three-member crews. Mergers and separation of the spacecraft in various combinations and exchange between the crew spacecraft will mark the successful end of an era pilotiranog space program and open a new one. Great space station with regular changes and flight crews to the moon. Technologically speaking, Chinese people are fully capable and willing to do the deed. In the meantime, the moon will be exploring new unmanned aircraft in the landing on the Lander and rover on the surface and return samples of lunar soil to Earth. In this light, the Tiangong-1 must be seen as an important link before launching the first Chinese astronaut on the lunar ground sometime after 2020. year.
Marino Tumpić
