{"id":7157,"date":"2020-03-16T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2020-03-16T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T12:46:12","slug":"chinas-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/chinas-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA\u2019S MISSIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and Technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>CHANG\u2019E-4 MISSION<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PWJul19Xin-rover-2_HERO.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for CHANG\u2019E-4 MISSION\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China launched Chang\u2019e-4, a <strong>first probe ever <\/strong>to explore them dark side of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DARK SIDE OF THE MOON<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hemisphere of the Moon that <strong>always faces away from Earth<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The dark side&#8217;s terrain is rugged with a multitude of impact craters<\/li>\n<li>Both sides of the Moon experience two weeks of sunlight followed by two weeks of night; the far side is sometimes called the &#8220;dark side of the Moon&#8221;, meaning <strong>unseen<\/strong> <strong>rather than lacking light<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chang\u2019e-4 has entered a planned orbit \u201cto prepare for the <strong>first-ever soft landing <\/strong>on the far side of the moon\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Previous spacecraft have seen the far side of the Moon, but none has landed on it.<\/li>\n<li>Chang\u2019e 4 is the fourth mission in the country\u2019s lunar mission series which is being named after the <strong>Chinese<\/strong> <strong>moon goddess<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OBJECTIVES OF CHANG\u2019E-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>low-frequency radio astronomical observation,<\/li>\n<li>surveying the terrain and landforms,<\/li>\n<li>detecting the mineral composition, and<\/li>\n<li>measuring the neutron radiation and neutral atoms to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>study the environment on the far side of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>BEIDOU<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insightsonindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BeiDou-Navigation-Satellite-System-BDS.png\" alt=\"Image result for BEIDOU\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China has added new satellites to its BeiDou Constellation. BeiDou is the Navigation Satellite System of China<\/p>\n<p><strong>FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China is currently developing the 3rd generation of BeiDou.<\/li>\n<li>It has already launched BeiDou-1 and BeiDou-2.<\/li>\n<li>BeiDou-1 and BeiDou-2 were regional in nature.<\/li>\n<li>BeiDou-3 would have global coverage<\/li>\n<li>It would be more accurate than US based Global<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Positioning System (GPS)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BeiDou-3 would have a constellation of 35 satellites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u25ba<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>TIANGONG-1<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/kEByMsKzsx6HcGka8gBmmj.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for TIANGONG-1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tiangong-1, which means <strong>\u201ccelestial place-1\u201d<\/strong>, was the china\u2019s first prototype space station and it orbited Earth from September 2011 to <strong>April 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLAINED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The space station acted <strong>as a manned laboratory and experimental test bed <\/strong>for the Chinese space program.<\/li>\n<li>The ground station lost control over the space station and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tiangong-1 <strong>re-entered earth\u2019s atmosphere and was destroyed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>GAOFEN 11<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ias4sure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ias4sure.com-Gaofen-11-1024x471.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for GAOFEN 11\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China has launched an optical remote sensing satellite as part of her China High-Resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS).<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLAINED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaofen-11 satellite will be utilized for land survey, urban planning, road network design, agriculture and disaster relief.<\/li>\n<li>The data provided by the Gaofen 11 will be used for China\u2019s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative as well.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Gaofen project China has planned to launch seven high definition observation satellites and these satellites will circle earth at low orbits (600 to 700 kms).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u25ba<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>YUTU-2<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>IN NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China has named the lunar rover, successfully deployed to carry out a string of experiments on the far side of the moon, as \u2018Yutu-2\u2019. It is part of <strong>China\u2019s Change 3<\/strong> <strong>mission to moon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLAINED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China\u2019s lunar probe is part of its <strong>\u2018Made in China-2025\u2019 project<\/strong>, which focuses on advanced technology, including space applications.<\/li>\n<li>The rover has been programmed to <strong>launch ground penetration radar <\/strong>that would help <strong>map the moon\u2019s inner structures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It would also <strong>analyse soil and rock samples for minerals<\/strong>, apart from activating a radio telescope to search for possible signals from deep space.<\/li>\n<li>It follows the <strong>BeiDou Navigation Satellite System <\/strong>\u2014 China\u2019s homegrown Global Positioning System that started worldwide service.<\/li>\n<li>It is said that China is <strong>considering mining there for helium-3<\/strong>, a rare substance on earth that can be used as a fuel in nuclear fusion power generation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science and Technology \u25baCHANG\u2019E-4 MISSION China launched Chang\u2019e-4, a first probe ever to explore them dark side of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,69],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-revision-prelims-science-tech","category-science-and-technology","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}