China News Service, Beijing, August 27 (Guo Chaokai) According to the China National Space Administration's Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center on the 27th, the fourth phase of China's lunar exploration project, the Chang'e-7 mission, will land on the lunar south pole to develop polar environment and resources. According to the survey, the 17 loads of Chang'e-7 are planned to compete and select the best.
In order to give full play to the advantages of all parties, aim at the international advanced level, improve the originality of scientific results, and ensure the successful realization of scientific and application goals, the China National Space Administration plans to conduct competitive selection work for some of the main payloads of the Chang'e-7 mission.
According to the China National Space Administration's Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, the Chang'e-7 mission load competition will adopt the principle of selection: First, the scientific significance is significant; the mission objective is clear, and the scientific originality is strong, reflecting the contemporary international frontier. The second is advanced technical indicators; the plan is fully demonstrated and the technical indicators are reasonable and feasible, reflecting the international advanced level. The third is that the development schedule is feasible, the budget is reasonable, the research foundation is good, the schedule is controllable, and the overall project requirements are met.
The Chang'e-7 mission load competition to select the best encourages the applicants to jointly declare with China's domestic (including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan) and foreign superior scientific research institutions; at the same time, engineers and scientists are encouraged to work closely together to form a joint research team.
Since its launch in 2004, China's lunar exploration project has achieved a series of innovative results with significant international influence. Currently, the China National Space Administration is launching the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, the Chang'e-7 mission and the major planetary exploration project asteroid exploration mission. The Chang'e-7 mission plans to carry out the lunar south pole landing and patrol exploration; the asteroid exploration mission plans to carry out orbiting detection of the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and realize the sampling return, and at the same time carry out the orbiting detection of the main belt comet 133P. (Finish)