Posted on 09/23/2022 4:27:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The mission will be named Tianwen 4 and will see a larger probe destined for Jupiter and smaller spacecraft to be sent to make a flyby of distant Uranus.
The pair will launch on a Long March 5 rocket and use a Venus flyby and two Earth flybys to fling the spacecraft on a trajectory for the outer solar system before separating and setting course for their respective targets.
The main spacecraft will be dedicated to investigate the Jupiter system and will eventually enter orbit around the moon Callisto for a detailed investigation of the outermost of the Galilean moons.
The smaller spacecraft, which will have a mass on the order of a few hundred kilograms according to Wang, will make the longer voyage to Uranus.
CNSA was earlier considering a lander as part of the Callisto-focused mission profile, but Wang says that the latest concept includes an orbiter but no lander.
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Don’t bring back the Monkeypox.
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Something tells me that China got some help from USA “leakers” to get their astronomical trajectories calculated.
Why?
For several decades they’ve had their “best and brightest” students attend America’s best technical universities.
And beyond that, the “Thousand Talents Plan”.
“If astronomers can demote Pluto, can’t they rename Uranus?”
They did in 2620 according to Futurama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czFnIvKOJY
(Wang, will make the longer voyage to Uranus)
The other spacecraft should be Chung.
Tonight.
Everybody.
Uranus (or alternate spelling "Ouranos") is the only planet named using the Greek name. All the other planets are named for the Roman pantheon.
If the naming convention were consistent, Uranus would be Caelus. But then the jokes wouldn't write themselves.
Leakers are especially problematic where Uranus is concerned.
I’ve been waiting to see news on this. Xi has not appeared at several events where he was expected to be.
Last week there was some kind of military action at an airbase in Liaoning.
Of course our inept, ignorant media cares only about domestic politics.
Just ask ambassadors to China!
I heard that rumor too.
It’d be hard to keep that quiet too long.
Why don’t the probe Hunter, the son of sniffer?
And what if they discover klingons? Will they wipe them out?
As long as it’s Uranus and not Myanus, have at it.
I wonder if anyone would even read this thread if they had named Uranus Cronos or something else.
The name is not the only odd thing about that planet, unlike all the others, it rolls along in its orbit since the equator is almost perpendicular to the orbital plane.
China wants to probe uranus.
I have no doubts they do.
Everybody does.
Loral was in on it with him.
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