SPACE TOURISM<\/p>\n
Space tourism remains the next frontier, and China had announced plans to debut its space tourism project at the China Hi-Tech Fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But that never took off, with no official explanation given.<\/p>\n
Still, optimism within the sector remains strong<\/p>\n
\u201cThe development of commercial space in China today, as well as humanity\u2019s future exploration of space resources and space itself globally, shows that space travel and spacecraft have tremendous potential,\u201d said Liu Tianxiao, board secretary of Shaanxi Space Circling Technology, which develops rocket engines for commercial launches.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis inevitably requires a high-performance, cost-effective, and reusable rocket \u2026 Only with such a rocket can we better support the development of the commercial future of space travel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Another player, Cangyu Space Technology \u2013 which also has partners in Southeast Asia \u2013 is developing a satellite network to improve tracing data.<\/p>\n
Tracking, control and data transmission problems have\u00a0long challenged\u00a0the space tourism industry, said Cangyu Space senior vice president Shen Shijun.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that as a spacecraft orbits the Earth, it can only be controlled by the ground station for 5 to 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201c(This) is very risky \u2026 But the coverage area by the commercial sector will in future be able to connect three satellites to achieve 100 per cent global, round-the-clock, all-weather coverage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPACE TOURISM Space tourism remains the next frontier, and China had announced plans to debut its space tourism…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,512,128,285,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-320315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-space-exploration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}