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In a rare news conference, Xu Dazhe, the head of the China National Space Administration, has reiterated the country’s plan to land on Mars by 2020, according to the Associated Press. Originally announced in January of this year, Xu confirms that the project is proceeding with the government’s full support.

The Chinese mission will follow in the footsteps of the U.S. Viking 1, which landed on the red planet more than forty years ago. Xu announced that China will seek international collaborations and consider civilian applications of space technology for things like navigation, remote sensing, and communications.

This is China’s second significant space exploration announcement this week. On Thursday, the state-run Xinhua news agency announced China’s plans to launch a “core module” which will serve as the backbone of the country’s first space station,Tianhe-1. The country plans to construct Tianhe-1 (named after the Chinese word for galaxy) by 2018. With the International Space Station approaching retirement in 2024, Tianhe-1 may serve as the only operational space station.


It’s been thirteen years since China performed it’s first crewed mission, becoming the third nation to accomplish independent human spaceflight in 2003. But space exploration hasn’t always been a smooth venture for China. In 2013, the country’s celebrated Jade Rabbit rover landed on the moon before falling prey to technical troubles.

Mars has also been in the news a bit this week. Elon Musk shared his want to build a city on the planet. NASA solicited proposals for deep space habitats.

And NASA has set its sights on a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s, calling the red planet “a rich destination for scientific discovery and robotic and human exploration…” according to the agency’s website. It wouldn’t be fair to call this a race, but perhaps the ambitions of China and SpaceX will give new significance to NASA’s mission.

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[muhammadali233]

Probably going to pick up Matt Damon.

 

[BoQ77]

Probably going to pick up Matt Damon.

China is racing with India for Mars exploration.

 

[anon45]

Pretty bad clickbait title. Yes China is aiming to land a ROVER on Mars.

You can tell they are trying to mislead because their closest reference is "in the footsteps of the U.S. Viking 1", and yet no explicit statement of 'rover'.

The writer knew what he was doing...

Anyways I suppose China could be in a race with India.. do they have any plans for a rover on Mars?

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

why Mars, I rather use available limited resource to put man on moon first.

 

[Beidou2020]

Unlike India, China will do this by its own, not with NASA help.

Its very easy to get NASA to do all the work and brag, but doesn't show the actual space capabilities of your own country.

China tried a Mars probe with Russia in 2011 but the Russian rocket failed (typical). Even if it succeeded, I cannot consider that a solely Chinese success. That was a joint project.

I want China to achieve things independently.

why Mars, I rather use available limited resource to put man on moon first.

Chinese space agency got approval for deep space exploration by the CPC only this year.

China has been busy with space station, manned missions, moon rover.

The Chinese space budget needs to increase and the Chinese space agency needs to be given full freedom to do any exploration. CPC bureaucracy is holding them back until they get approval.

 

[Nan Yang]

China will seek their big daddy Russia's help for this. They can't pull this off by their own ! They have zero experience in deep space !

Not entirely true





As of 2015, Chang'e 2 has reached a distance of over 100 million kilometers from Earth; potentially, it has enough fuel remaining to continue functioning up to a distance of 300 million kilometers, according to the China Aerospace Corporation. The probe is being used to further verify China's deep-space tracking and control capabilities.[12]

 

[BoQ77]

Vietnam will send people to Pluto by 2020.

Thanks, we have no tech, money and willing to do that.

 

[BattleWolf]

Your country India has ZERO experience in deep space. That Mars probe was a NASA mission with full help from NASA. Nothing to do with India. To call that an Indian achievement is beyond laughable.

all I'm hearing is is a desperate han trying to save face, its like saying China invented nuclear power since they invented gun powered .

NASA provided navigational support , saying MOM is a NASA ripoff is the highest peak of delusion. As far as the records are concerned India has already won the race to mars.