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China's Mars probe completes first orbital correction
Source: Xinhua | 2020-08-02 07:30:02 | Editor: huaxia
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/02/c_139257979.htm
BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully carried out its first orbital correction Sunday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.
The probe conducted the orbital correction at 7 a.m. (Beijing Time) after its 3000N engine worked for 20 seconds, and continued to head for Mars. All the systems of the probe were in good condition.
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Of course. Many international partners are working on this mission under Chinese leadership.Seems that nearly everything in this "Chinese " mission has a foreign hand.
Lets not spoil this thread with unnecessary d..k measuring. My point is that all countries need collaboration for deep space navigation. So all the Chinese targeting the Indian mars mission on this thread need to smell the coffee.Europe provided a target for comparison and a magnetometer for collaboration. And minimal tracking from Estrack, just like how we also provide tracking services to Ariane launches. How is that exactly All foreign? Look at your Chandrayaan, its almost all foreign components, hell you can't even make a rifle for gods sake. Without NASA deep space tracking, you can't even get there.
You basically sent a Chandrayaan clone using a primitive rocket guided by NASA deep space tracking. I am not against international collaborations for tracking as China also provide tracking for EU in return. The payload of our mission completely dwarfs Indian's mission with a lander and river. EU is providing a target for comparison and a magnetometer for testing, I am not sure that's considered All foreign. Look at Chandrayaan, almost all instruments were foreign.In 1974 Russia had its first successful soft landing on Mars . Nearly 50 years ago , without the experience of other missions or foreign navigation help. This is real pioneering stuff.
American hype on space is everywhere but it was the Russians who actually had-
First satellite
First man in orbit
First woman in orbit
First space walk
First landing on mars
First space station.
American achievements-
First and only landing of a human on a non earth celestial body. Just think about it. Its 1969 , space technology is very new. And Americans land on the moon.
Inspiring stuff from the pioneers.
After these 2 , Japan has quietly achieved a great success by landing on a asteroid, drilling ,taking samples and in dec 2020 the sample carrying spacecraft will reach the earth. Wow. Its a 6 year mission. Hats off.
India offcourse has a great success with the still running mars orbiter but its main success is in inspiring millions around the world that a 3rd world country can also achieve the near impossible, if it creates islands of excellence. All orher countries were already leaders in technology.
I am sure one day China will also one day do something new and pioneering but for that they have to discard their fear of failure. Not telecasting the mars launch officially was disappointing for us space geeks, till success was assured, not a good sign of transparency.
Space is challenging but its the most interesting frontier.