In the South Asian subcontinent, the largest country is India, India's more than a billion people, in fact, also includes more than 100 different ethnic groups, but the largest proportion is the famous Hindustan ethnic group. As we all know, China, ancient India, ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon are the four ancient civilizations, which have long given birth to brilliant and far-reaching human civilizations.
But as you can see, many years have passed, and every country has undergone earth-shaking changes, such as the United States, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and other countries have entered the ranks of developed countries. As early as 1998, 16 countries worked together on the space station, and after the international space station was completed in 2010, its operation rights were concentrated in the hands of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Russian Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
As of now, the largest space station platform running in orbit is still the international space station built more than ten years ago, although there are many countries that have boarded the international space station, but there are no Chinese astronauts, which is why we have to spend so long to build our own space station, that is, the Tiangong space station that everyone sees.
The happy thing is that the Chinese space station, which is expected to be completed around 2022, weighs 180 tons, can allow 3 astronauts to reside on it for a long time, and its design life is also 10 years. At present, there are astronauts on the space station, they are Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, and the three astronauts have also transformed into space teachers to bring you a wonderful space lesson a while ago.
Moreover, our Chinese space is open, and more than a dozen countries have passed the Application for the Chinese Space Station, including Japan and India.
It is important to know that the International Space Station is expected to be decommissioned early in 2024, 4 years earlier than the initial estimate of 2028, so in a few years, the Chinese space station may be the only space station in orbit at that time. Therefore, in addition to applying to join the continental space station, some countries have already planned to build their own space stations, including India!
In January 2021, India's Minister for Atomic Energy and Space Development publicly stated that India is also about to start building a space station, and the first space station is expected to be completed in 2030, and the Long-awaited manned spaceflight program of the Indian people will also be launched in 2022. Moreover, earlier, in 2019, the CEO of the Indian Space Research Organization introduced that the indian space station weighs 20 tons, and the astronauts can stay for 15 to 20 days.
However, if you ask India what step of the self-built space station is going, then there is no public information to answer this question at present, because there is no launch mission related to the construction of the space station for the time being, and there is no specific mission plan timetable.
Whether India can build its first space station in 2030, the Indian media has clearly expressed a positive view:
They believe that if China can build a space station on its own, then India will certainly be able to do it, because looking back at the development history of China and India, India has been catching up with China at a rapid pace.
For example, China's first nuclear test was in 1964, India completed it in 10 years in 1974; China's first lunar exploration mission was carried out in 2007, while India's Chandrayaan 1 was launched a year later; China's first anti-satellite mission was launched in 2007, and India did its first in 2019.
Of course, we believe that as long as India puts into action, the construction of the space station will most likely be a matter of time, but this is the inevitable result of the forward development of society, not the law of looking back at history. Moreover, in the process of the construction of the space station, in addition to the problems of various key technologies, it is necessary to avoid the risks that may occur in space space, such as the continental space station because the US Starlink satellite has implemented emergency collision avoidance twice, which has avoided the sudden collision risk and ensured the safety of astronauts and the space station.
As early as June 2021, the president of the Russian Space Exploration Agency publicly stated that they would launch the International Space Station in 2025 to cooperate and then build their own space station.
In fact, the construction of the space station is not so easy, the mainland as early as 1992 formulated the "three-step" strategy of manned space projects, built the first space station in the Chinese, at that time was determined as an important goal. After Shenzhou 13 returns to Earth, it will launch cargo spacecraft and Shenzhou 14 manned spacecraft, as well as the first experimental module of our space station.
It is a great honor that we can witness the rapid development of China's space industry, not only with the construction of space stations, which are likely to become the only space stations operating in orbit in a few years, but also become the second country to successfully land a probe on Mars and the first human probe to land on the far side of the moon!