According to a roadmap for 2017-2047 posted on China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s Website, China is all set to boost its space transportation system as it implements its strategic goal of becoming a space superpower.
The roapmap is a list of set goals for China Space exploration in coming decades.
Before 2020, China plans to test its Long March 8 for the first time and get it ready by 2020.
The more heavy and advanced version, the Long March 9 super-heavy-lift rocket, capable of carrying over 100 tons and designed to send crewed missions to the moon and possibly unmanned ones to Mars, will make its maiden flight by 2030 as part of China’s lunar and Mars exploration program.
The roadmap also put 2020 as the target for the start of multiple commercial launch services and 2025 as the target for the introduction of her own reusable space Vehicles and 2035 as the target to make all its space Vehicle reusable.
China also plan to develop suborbital space tourism industry with its first space shuttle which will make its maiden flight in 2020 and also launch a new-generation two-stage reusable rockets and nuclear powered space shuttles prospect for and develop mineral resources on small planets and asteroids and build space-based solar power stations.
China has in the past staged a spacewalk , landed a rover on the moon and launched a space lab that it hopes will pave the way for a 20-ton space station. They also placed 5 crew in space recently and they hope to land on the dark side of the moon by 2018 and get to Mars before 2020.
The accelerated construction of new space launch centers, ambitious lunar and Mars exploration programs and regular spaceflights are quickly bridging the gap between China and the two space lords; U.S.A and Russia.
In 2020, Chinese scientists plan to use a Long March 5 rocket to send a probe to the intermediary orbit between the Earth and Mars to study the Red Planet.
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