Questions tagged [cnsa]
The China National Space Administration was formed in 1993 and is responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation, including organizing or leading foreign exchanges and cooperation in the aerospace field. (from Wikipedia)
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Cartoon-like characters on the side of the Tianwen-1 Mars lander?
Scott Manley's excellent new video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone is chock-full of space-sleuthing goodies and interesting information about the ...
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CZ-4B Grid fins
In nov 2019 and sept 2020 the CNSA launched CZ-4B Y38 and CZ-4B Y41. Based on different images I noticed that this Long March 4B had grid fins. On CZ-4B Y41 the grid fins from Y38 were reused making ...
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Why (the heck) did Tianwan-1 insert into a low inclination orbit then execute a plane change from 11.8 to 86.9 degrees?
eoPortal's Tianwen-1 (China's first Mars Exploration Mission) shows the following graphic, caption and link.
It's often discussed that orbital plane changes are like certain table wines in that they ...
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How usual is seeing or picturing a space lidar from Earth?
Recently, photographs taken on Earth of the 532 nm beam emitted by the Aerosol and Carbon Detection Lidar have hit the news, perhaps also because of the nice pictures and because Chinese space laser ...
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Approximate size of the "hut" object observed from the Yutu-2 lunar rover?
News sources (for example, the Independent, the South China Morning Post, RT, and Newsweek) have reported recently on the observation from the Yutu-2 lunar rover of a "hut" object or "...
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What are these details on (renderings of) the Zhurong rover's wheels?
Looking at some renderings of the CNSA Zhurong rover I noticed some curious (pun intended) details on the wheels:
This Newsy Today article:
In this The Conversation article:
seen in some clips of ...
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What is or are the official English names for the eventual space station being built by China, and of the first module that's in orbit now?
China has launched the first module of a space station and plans to have astronauts inside it to start woking in about a month.
In Astronomy SE they've already started calling it the "Chinese ...
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Is the Ceres-1 the first Chinese rocket that was given an official Romanized name?
The news feed in the The Pod Bay links to NASA Spacelfight's 2020-11-08 news item Introducing China’s new commercial rocket, Ceres-1.
China’s latest commercial rocket, the Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) ...
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Was Queqiao in a halo or Lissajous orbit? Why do sources disagree?
Wikipedia's Lissajous orbit says that sources disagree on the nature of Queqiao relay satellite's orbit; if it was in a proper halo orbit or just a Lissajous orbit.
Proper halo orbits have the same ...
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What flag is flying over the landing site of the Shenzhou 12 crew astronauts returning from Tiangong? What does it say?
NBC News has a short video clip Astronauts Return After 90-day Mission To China's Space Station
A trio of Chinese astronauts touched down in the Gobi Desert after completing China's longest space ...
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Why is it so cold in the nighttime (-130 C at 25.1 degree North) at the location where the Chinese rover landed on Mars?
Jia Yang, a Chinese engineer, announced that the Zhurong rover rolled cautiously, about 10 m in 3 days. One reason for this slow progress is the temperature that drops to -130 C and freezes the carbon ...
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China. Its very own modular spacestation
China future plan for spacestation after the lost testbed are more and more turning into reality by time. Now with Long March 5/7 success when will China launch its spacestation and how will it differ ...
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Does Chang'e 5 ascent module's crash has any other benefits for the space agency other than reducing the space junk?
I really appreciate what the Chinese space agency did with the ascent module, crashed it onto the lunar surface so that they won't contribute to the space debris. I was wondering if there is an ...
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