Chapter 1177 Tianwen No. 1
Mid-July.
Wenchang Space Launch Site, Qiong Province, at this time, countless people in China are focusing on this, and even many people around the world are looking at this place.
CCTV is broadcasting live.
The "Tianwen-1" Mars probe is about to be launched. The "Tianwen-1" Mars probe is a Mars probe independently developed by China, which is specially used to explore Mars.
"Tianwen-1" will complete the three major goals of "orbiting, landing, and patrolling" at one time.
If the mission is completed, China will become the first country in the world to explore Mars and complete a soft landing.
Mars is the fourth closest planet to the sun and the second smallest planet in the solar system after Mercury. It is one of the four terrestrial planets in the solar system. The radius of Mars is 3,396 kilometers, and the average distance from the earth is 225 million kilometers. Mars has two satellites, Phobos and Deimos.
For a long time, humans on Earth have always believed that there is a high possibility of life on Mars!
However, as more and more data show that it is almost impossible for life to exist on Mars, Martians only exist in human imagination.
But China still carried out the Mars exploration project!
The Mars exploration project is China's first project in the exploration of planets in the solar system.
For China, the information released by Americans or Soviets is not necessarily credible.
According to past experience, the information released by Americans or Soviets is often half true and half false, or seven points true and three points false. If you believe them, you will definitely suffer a great loss.
Besides, only by going there and exploring Mars can you get first-hand information.
Whether there is life on Mars is really important, but it is not important.
What is really important is to complete the verification and accumulation of aerospace technology in the process of launching the probe.
Aerospace technology, space technology, life technology, etc. have always been the world's top technology. This is not just talk, but the fact is so.
Now, many people have begun to question the Soviet Union at the time, thinking that the Soviet Union is not good at this and that.
They don't think about it. Europe and the United States trembled in the Soviet Union's 81 military exercise. Can this be faked?
The achievements made by the Soviet Union in the field of aerospace and space technology, can this be faked?
The Long March 5 Yao-4 carrier rocket was used to launch the Tianwen-1 satellite. This was the first application launch of the Long March 5 series of carrier rockets and the first launch mission of a Chinese carrier rocket to the Earth-Mars transfer orbit.
The Long March 5 series of carrier rockets, also known as the "big rocket" and "Pang Wu", is a disposable large cryogenic liquid bundled carrier rocket. It is also a new generation of Chinese carrier rockets with a core stage diameter of 5 meters.
The carrier rocket has a geosynchronous transfer orbit and low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 14 tons and 25 tons respectively, making it the largest carrier rocket in China. Its takeoff mass reached 859-879 tons, and its takeoff thrust reached 10,524 kilonewtons.
The total mass of the Tianwen-1 probe is 5 tons, and it is on China's first Mars rover.
The launch of the Tianwen-1 probe attracted many space enthusiasts and tourists to Qiongdao to watch.
At 12:41, the entire Wenchang land trembled. The Long March 5 Yao-4 rocket lifted up the Chinese people's deep space dream, sent the "Tianwen-1" probe into space, and set off for the distant Mars.
At 13:22, the probe and the rocket separated, and the launch process was a complete success.
After flying in the Earth-Mars transfer orbit for about 7 months, the "Tianwen-1" probe will arrive near Mars, complete Mars capture through "braking", enter the Mars orbit, and choose the opportunity to carry out landing, patrol and other tasks to conduct scientific exploration of Mars.
The exploration and questioning of the universe for thousands of years has been the Chinese nation's unswerving space dream. From the "Heavenly Questions" issued by the ancient poet Qu Yuan to the current China's first Mars exploration mission named "Tianwen-1", space exploration is endless and the great dream will not stop.
The engineering goal of this Mars exploration mission is to achieve Mars orbit exploration and patrol exploration, obtain Mars exploration scientific data, achieve China's technological leap in the field of deep space exploration, and at the same time establish an independent deep space exploration engineering system to promote the sustainable development of China's deep space exploration activities.
Liu Tao also watched the launch of the Tianwen-1 probe. After entering the millennium, China's aerospace field will enter a fast lane of development.
In Earth orbit, as the first-generation meteorological satellites, the first-generation Beidou navigation satellites, the first-generation communication satellites, the first-generation Internet satellites, the first-generation resource remote sensing satellites, and the first-generation reconnaissance satellites expire, the improved second-generation satellites will be launched next to gradually replace the second-generation satellites. In addition, new space-based laser weapons will also be launched into space in the name of satellites.
In terms of lunar exploration, a series of explorations and lunar landings will be carried out. The lunar exploration project is named the "Chang'e Project", and the manned lunar landing project is expected to be carried out in 2025.
The rest, named after planets, include the Mars Exploration Project, the Mercury Exploration Project, the Venus Exploration Project, the Jupiter Exploration Project, the Saturn Exploration Project, the Uranus Exploration Project, the Neptune Exploration Project, and the Solar Exploration Project.
These all belong to deep space exploration, all within the solar system!
By 2025, China will launch an outer solar system exploration project and launch probes outside the solar system
Exploring the universe, this path will be persisted, after all, compared with the entire universe, the earth is too small.
Is there life in the universe besides the earth?
I don't know!
But there is a high probability!
The universe is so vast that we don't know how many galaxies like the Milky Way there are. The Milky Way has 100 to 400 billion stars and a large number of star clusters, nebulae and various types of interstellar gas and interstellar dust. In other words, the entire Milky Way has at least 100 to 400 billion star systems like the solar system, and there may be 400 to 1.6 trillion terrestrial planets.
How dare humans arrogantly believe that there is no life in the universe except the earth?
Maybe there are countless life planets in the entire Milky Way!
Liu Tao is convinced that there are other life planets in the universe, and even there are many life planets in the Milky Way.
And all of this must rely on deep space exploration.
Deep space exploration is extremely difficult, but it is precisely by constantly solving problems that China can continue to make progress instead of standing still!
Liu Tao believes that as long as the Chinese nation does not rest on its laurels, no nation on earth can compete with the Chinese nation.
If there is a goal that can keep the Chinese nation moving forward, Liu Tao racked his brains and found only one answer - the sea of stars!
The journey of the Chinese nation is the sea of stars!
In exploring the sea of stars, the Chinese nation will overcome one difficulty after another, make continuous progress, and have the courage to pursue and challenge! (End of this chapter)
