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CommentaryChang'e-4 descent video. From China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.
China declares Chang'e-4 mission complete success
Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-11 16:45:51|Editor: Li Xia
The screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center shows the Chang'e-4 lander (R) and the Yutu-2 rover taking pictures for each other, Jan. 11, 2019. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China announced Friday that the Chang'e-4 mission, which realized the first-ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon, was a complete success.
China News Agency reporter:中国新闻社记者:
嫦娥四号是被誉为探月工程四期的首次任务,请问在接下来探月工程四期还有什么计划?未来中国的探月工程和深空探测还有哪些计划安排?
2019-01-14 15:40:00
吴艳华:
中国政府从启动探月工程以来,按照“绕、落、回”三步走实施,我们简称叫三期,刚才报告已经谈到了。最后“回”的标准,是以今年年底左右,嫦娥五号到月球正面取样回来作为标准,这样三步就算完成了。刚才大家也知道了,嫦娥四号本来是嫦娥三号的备份星,嫦娥三号成功以后,中国国家航天局组织国内国际科学家共同论证,实现了这次更有意义的人类首次探测活动,所以把嫦娥四号作为探月四期的首次任务。
国家航天局也正在组织国内专家对后续规划进行论证,基本明确还有三次任务。一个是嫦娥六号计划在月球南极进行采样返回,到底是月背还是正面,要根据嫦娥五号的采样情况来确定。嫦娥七号是在月球南极一次综合探测,包括刚才说对月球的地形地貌、物质成分、空间环境进行一次综合探测任务。嫦娥八号除了继续进行科学探测试验以外,还要进行一些关键技术的月面试验。中国、美国、俄罗斯和欧洲等国家都在论证,要不要在月球建立一个科研基地,或者科研站,比如说采用3D打印技术,能不能在月亮上利用月壤建房子等,我们要通过嫦娥八号验证部分技术,为以后各国一起共同构建月球科研基地,做一些前期探索。谢谢。
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Should this trend be confirmed, then this is really the beginning of the China Century or Pax Sinica, that will more and more likely supersede the 20th century's Pax Americana. With its current first world reserve of rare earth mineral, China could definitely put and end to the U.S. hegemony by securing the access to the North Korean rare earth that even surpass the Chinese's by tenfold. Having exhausted their rare earth mineral ore reserve during the Cold War, both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. can no longer sustain the same pace in the hightech race with China, in the field of supercomputers, semiconductor microchips, lasers, smartphones, radars, missiles, particle accelerators, satellites, etc.. Today, China is even driving a final nail into the U.S. Dystopian Empire's coffin, by landing the Chang'e-4 lunar rover in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest, deepest and oldest known crater in the solar system. Thus the best place to find rare earth mineral. The Chinese Yutu-2 lunar rover will be the first to probe it with ground-penetrating radar and measure its mineral composition with an infrared spectrometer. If rare earth mineral is present, China might find it, before any large scale industrial extraction could begin by 2030, with the first Chinese moon base.