China wants to send humans to the surface of the moon by 2030, and now it has given new details about how it wants to do it using two rockets. China is working on the development of powerful rockets as well as other aspects of satellites such as spacesuits.

China wants to send humans to the surface of the moon no later than 2030, and now it has announced that it will do so with two rockets: one with taikonauts and another with a module that will take people to the surface. month

This “double rocket plan”, as it was called by the Anglo-Saxon press, will be quite difficult from a technical point of view, because the rockets will have to reach the lunar orbit, then the docking will be successful and the astronauts will enter the module, which will then lead to the surface of the moon.

After collecting rock and dust samples and conducting other experiments, the tyconauts will return to the module, which should deliver them safely back to the orbital rocket that will take them back to Earth. This was announced by representatives of the Chinese space agency in Wuhan.

China is working intensively on the development of the super-powerful Long March 10 rocket, on the development of a module capable of carrying a human crew, on a landing module, as well as on a new rover.

China has a complex agenda when it comes to lunar exploration and wants to test building “bricks” from lunar soil and then eventually erect structures on the lunar surface using 3D printers and robots, officials said in April.

China’s future missions to the moon

In 2025, Chang’e 6 will attempt to deliver soil and rock samples from the far side of the Moon to Earth.

Chang’e 7 will be a complex mission to the region of the south pole of the Moon, and several vehicles will be sent: an orbital probe, a lander, a rover, a communication satellite and a detector that will be able to study the ice in the lunar craters. It should be launched in 2026.

Chang’e 8 should be launched no earlier than 2028 and test technologies such as 3D printing and others on the moon in order to use local resources.

Sources: Reuters, space.com