Inner Mongolia Daily (October 8, 2024, 01 edition).
How long does a star travel time, the land of Inner Mongolia may be able to answer.
"Dongfanghong No. 1 vs Chang'e No. 6" comparison chart.
On October 1, 2024, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hua Chunying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director of the Information Department of China, released 18 sets of comparison charts on the social media X platform, vividly showing the vicissitudes of China in the past 75 years, one of which is "Dongfanghong 1 vs Chang'e 6": In 1970, China's first artificial earth satellite Dongfanghong 1 was successfully launched, ushering in another milestone in China's aerospace history; In 2024, Chang'e-6 will "win the palace again" and retrieve the soil on the back of the moon.
These two major aerospace events took place on the land of Inner Mongolia. China's first artificial earth satellite "Dongfanghong 1" was launched in Dongfeng Space City in Ejina, Inner Mongolia, also known as China Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center; The Chang'e-6 returner, which returned from the moon for the first time in human history, landed at the Siziwangqi landing site in Inner Mongolia.
There has been a gap of 54 years between the two major aerospace events. In fact, as early as 68 years ago, for China's dream of flying, the herders of Ejina in Inner Mongolia had begun to relocate their land.
In the 75 years since the founding of New China, Chinese astronauts have written magnificent chapters in the sky of history, and the people of Inner Mongolia have given China's aerospace the most affectionate support.
The crowd dressed in costumes welcomed the safe landing of the Chang'e-6 returner at the Siziwangqi landing site. Photo by reporter Meng He Chaolu
The stars that travel through time and space share the fruits of space exploration with the pride of China to the world. The pride of the Chinese stars, Inner Mongolia and the glory.
In the 75-year magnificent development history of China's aerospace industry, Inner Mongolia has been walking together with China's aerospace industry.
68 years, from 1 star in 14 years to more than 200 stars in 1 year
On September 6, the reusable test spacecraft successfully launched by Dongfeng Space City successfully returned to the scheduled landing site after 268 days in orbit.
On September 25, the Lijian-1 Yao-4 commercial carrier rocket was launched in Dongfeng Space City, and the five satellites carried were successfully put into the scheduled orbit.
On September 27, Dongfeng Space City successfully launched the first reusable returnable technology test satellite, the Shijian-19 satellite.
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Today's star launches are becoming more and more dense, multiple stars with one arrow have become the norm, and reusability has become a high-frequency word.
Looking back from the starting point of New China's aerospace industry: 68 years ago, in 1956, China's first missile research institute, the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, was established in the western suburbs of Beijing; 66 years ago, in 1958, this unprecedented undertaking was located in the vast land of Ejina, Inner Mongolia; 59 years ago, in 1965, China's first solid rocket engine development and production base, which is now the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry, was moved from Sichuan to Hohhot, Inner Mongolia; Fifty-four years ago, in 1970, China's first artificial satellite "Dongfanghong 1" was launched in Dongfeng Space City. A star rose into the sky and it took 14 years.
Today, dozens of launches a year have become the norm, and hundreds of spacecraft are launched each year.
On October 26, 2023, Shenzhou-17 was launched in Dongfeng Space City. Photo by reporter Wang Xiaobo
On May 30, 2023, Shenzhou-16 was launched in Dongfeng Space City. Photo by reporter Wang Xiaobo
In 2023, the mainland will successfully carry out nearly 70 space launch missions, launch more than 200 spacecraft, and set a new record of multiple satellites with 26 and 41 stars. At the same time, in 2023, the Long March series of carrier rockets ushered in the 500th launch, starting from the first flight of the Long March-1 rocket in Dongfeng Space City on April 24, 1970, when the Dongfanghong-1 satellite was sent into space, and it took 37 years for the Long March series of rockets to achieve 100 launches. It took more than 7 years from the 100th to the 200th launch; It took more than four years to achieve the third hundredth launch; It took 2 years and 9 months to achieve the fourth 100th launch; It took only 2 years to achieve the fifth hundredth launch.
Time seems to be speeding up.
On April 16, 2022, at the Dongfeng landing site in Ejina, the recovery site of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft. Photo by reporter Wang Xiaobo
On December 4, 2022, at the Dongfeng landing site in Ejina, the recovery site of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft. Photo by reporter Wang Xiaobo
For Zhu Anshan, a retired cadre of the Civil Affairs Department of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region who participated in the recovery of "Shen I" to "Shen IV", that memory seems to stay in history forever.
"In 1999, when Shenyi was recycled, he had no experience, and walking on the grassland would inevitably crush the pasture, but the herders did not complain. The recovery work lasted from night to morning, and it was the longest and most laborious. At the time of the 'Shen San', the herdsmen who were familiar with the road conditions spontaneously formed a militia search team, they rode motorcycles to lead the way, followed by the car of the professional search and rescue team, and after the successful recovery, the Ulan herdsmen gave the search and rescue team a hata, and the scene was very lively. The 'Shen Four' recovery was at night, it was winter, it was very cold, the car was running on the snow, and when we encountered the net fence, we got out of the car and cut it to open the way for the search and rescue team, and everyone had frost on their eyebrows. Zhu Anshan recalled.
He said that many times of recycling, the inner Mongolia is to help the search and rescue team search for the return capsule and search for scattered devices at all costs, and the other party also gave the aircraft recovery related items as a permanent memorial, and now these precious gifts can be seen in the Mongolia Museum.
While listening to the audio explanation of the exhibits on their mobile phones, visitors carefully watched the aerospace exhibits of the Inner Mongolia Museum. Photo by reporter Li Xia
Exhibits related to Chinese aerospace in the Inner Mongolia Museum. Photo by reporter Li Xia
Over the past 60 years, hundreds of satellites, 18 Shenzhou spacecraft, 1 target vehicle, and 1 space laboratory have been successfully launched in Dongfeng Space City, and 17 satellites such as Shenzhou spacecraft and Shijian-10, the third phase of lunar exploration re-entry and return flight test vehicle, Chang'e-5, Chang'e-6 and other lunar exploration vehicles have landed in the central grassland of Inner Mongolia or the Dongfeng landing site in western Inner Mongolia.
In the aerospace history of New China, Inner Mongolia has escorted and participated in it all the way.
For more than 30 years, from sending Chinese into space to Chinese resident in space
On September 30, 2024, the WeChat official account of China Manned Space released a detailed October calendar for manned spaceflight, with different colors marked with different key points.
The calendar shows that the Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft is planned to be launched in late October to welcome the Shenzhou-18 crew back. The 26th is the day marked in yellow that "the Shenzhou 18 crew has been in orbit for six months", which also means that the crew's return is likely to be around this date.
The police of the Alxa Border Management Detachment carried out the security task of Shenzhou recovery.
The Alxa Border Management Detachment is also preparing for the launch of the "Shen 19" security mission. Since the Shenzhou-1 spacecraft began in 1999, the Alxa Border Management Detachment has undertaken a total of 18 spacecraft launch peripheral security tasks, and since the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft began to land at the Dongfeng landing site, they have also undertaken 6 Shenzhou recovery security tasks from Shenzhou-12 to Shenzhou-17. Set up cards, visits, investigations, publicity...... Stick to all points in the jurisdiction day and night, and the "Aerospace Escort Team", "Taolai Shenzhou Police Team" and "Desert Police Aviation Team" are integrated with air and space, and make every effort to maintain the safety and stability around Dongfeng Space City.
Like them, those who are ready to escort the launch of the "Shen 19" and the return of the "Shen 18" are also relevant units in Ejina, as well as relevant units in the surrounding banner counties.
In 1992, China's manned space program was approved. Over the past 32 years, from unmanned to manned, from one person to many people for many days, from spacewalk to rendezvous and docking, from short-term residence to medium-term residence and then to long-term residence, from the first "space rendezvous" to the handover of the division has become the norm, from applied flight to "space shuttle", astronauts' living rooms have changed from "one room" to "two rooms" and then to "three rooms and two halls", and astronauts' diets have achieved a food cycle of 7 days, and the dishes are not the same. At present, astronauts include astronauts, aerospace flight engineers and payload experts, and the national space laboratory China Space Station has arranged for more than 100 space science research and application projects to be implemented in orbit, and more than 4,000 achievements are widely used in all walks of life.
In Shangdu County, Ulanqab City, space potatoes are harvesting, and researchers are carefully selecting space seed potatoes. Photo by Wang Junxia
In Inner Mongolia, some of the grass seeds of the Mengcao Group Innovation and Breeding Research Institute are space grass seeds that have been carried on spacecraft. According to the relevant personnel, the wheat grass that came back from the spacecraft has good drought and cold resistance, and there are more tillers, which means that the grass yield will be relatively high.
At present, China's manned space industry has formed a regular launch mode of "two ships a year" with rolling backup, and China's space station can support the development of single-disciplinary or multidisciplinary space science experiments, which has reached the international advanced level as a whole. The "Tiangong Classroom" is also becoming more and more exciting......
In 2024, Yang Liwei will tell the children about the process of manned missions in Dongfeng Aerospace City, and cultivate the next generation of "star pickers". Yang Liwei's "One Day in Space" article has now entered primary school textbooks.
Many herders still remember the exciting moment when Yang Liwei returned to Earth. Ji Rigala, a herdsman from Siziwangqi, said: "Shenzhou 4 fell in my grassland, and Shenzhou 5 fell in the grassland of my neighbor next door. Herdsman Enkeqige said: "I am so excited that Shenzhou 5 landed in my pasture, and many people are now visiting this landing site." In June this year, when the reporter was interviewing in Siziwangqi, he met two groups of aerospace enthusiasts from Beijing and Hohhot who visited the Shenzhou 5 landing site to check in.
In the past 32 years, from the first time it entered space to the era of the space station, the mainland's manned space industry has achieved leapfrog development.
"The spacecraft lifted off from the Inner Mongolia, and the astronauts landed Mongolia the Inner ." A pennant presented to the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee in November 2003 is now placed in the Inner Mongolia Museum, expressing gratitude to the Inner Mongolia for their full support for China's manned space program.
This pennant in the Inner Mongolia Museum is soaked in the strong friendship between Inner Mongolia and China's aerospace. Photo by reporter Li Xia
help search and rescue teams search for the return capsule and scattered devices at all costs; Invest 53.69 million yuan to build a 65-kilometer three-level highway "Shenzhou Road" at the Ulanhua-Hongger Recycling Station......
At 17:37 on September 28, 2008, the first "Shenqi" return capsule loaded with three people landed steadily on the Amugulang grassland. In cooperation with the professional search and rescue team, an emergency response team of more than 2,100 people has been set up in relevant areas to create a safe harbor for the "Shenqi" to return home. At 19:48, the helicopter carrying the astronauts took off for Hohhot, and the guest house of the Hohhot Military Region had made sufficient preparations for the astronauts' rest. At about 6 o'clock on September 29, the party committee, government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and people of all ethnic groups and all walks of life saw off the astronauts in Hohhot City to return to Beijing. When the three astronauts waved to the crowd with confident smiles, the scene was boiling, and the girls of the Mongolia nationality presented a white and auspicious Hada to the flying heroes, and also sent the most sincere blessings to the children of all ethnic groups in the Mongolia.
Shen Jiu returned to send off the astronauts.
Guo Zhong, a native of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, who served as the No. 0 commander in the "Shen VII" launch mission, said: "As an Inner Mongolia, I can watch so many spacecraft take off in Dongfeng Space City and return to Inner Mongolia, and participate in it, the pride and pride in my heart cannot be expressed in words. ”
On June 11, 2013, Suri Magab watched the launch of Shenzhou-10 in Baori Wulagach, Dongfeng Town, the nearest village to Dongfeng Space City. Suzhmagab is a Turkut Mongolia from the Ejina banner, and the Turks returned to the motherland after many difficulties and dangers, and in 1958, they gave up rich pastures for the motherland's aerospace industry. And Suri Magab himself, who was also transferred to the relocation headquarters at that time, became a member of the propaganda group, and his life in the relocation headquarters lasted for two years.
The Siziwang Banner landed 11 Shenzhou spacecraft. Some "old Shenzhou" who participated in the recovery security work said that during the period from the day before Shenzhou's return to the time when it landed and was safely transported, many people could only eat, drink, and sleep in the car, and it was necessary to ensure the safe landing and recovery of Shenzhou.
The return capsule of the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft has successfully landed in a predetermined area in central Mongolia, and the staff is conducting a comprehensive inspection of the return capsule. Photo by reporter Bi Lige
Shi Liying, a retired cadre of the Autonomous Region's Department of Civil Affairs, recalled the days related to Shenzhou: "When the 'Shen VI' and 'Shen VII' were recovered, I always arranged the tasks of the landing site, and then rushed back to coordinate the activities of welcoming and sending off the astronauts. ”
In the past 32 years, China's manned space industry has made remarkable achievements, and Inner Mongolia has been deeply involved along the way.
In 20 years, from looking at the moon and chasing dreams to returning from sampling on the back of the moon
Looking back on the flying road, chasing dreams for a new journey. The lunar exploration project was officially approved in January 2004, and the three-step overall plan of "orbiting, falling, and returning" was determined, and it has gone through 20 spring and autumn seasons by 2024. At present, the mainland manned mission to the moon has been fully launched.
On the eve of the National Day, 10 space mutagenesis experimental materials carried by Chang'e-6 were sent to the Taipingzhuang Experimental Base of the Aerospace Breeding Research Institute of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Science and Technology for breeding. Since 2008, the institute has successively carried aerospace breeding materials through Shen-11, 13, 14, 16 and Chang'e-6. According to reports, the institute will strive to use three to five years to popularize the area of aerospace breeding varieties to more than 100,000 mu.
In the golden autumn of October, the fruits are harvested, in the inner Mongolia land, the aerospace breeding potatoes break the ground in Ulanqab, the space tomato is growing vigorously in Ordos, Baotou Rare Earth Research Institute Mengxi Magnetic Industry Co., Ltd. has developed and produced a large number of rare earth samarium cobalt permanent magnet components for the "Long March" series of carrier rockets and the "Shenzhou" series spacecraft and the "Chang'e" lunar exploration project, and the F-12 high-strength organic fiber developed in Hohhot is used in the shell of rockets and missiles and aircraft structural parts......
Looking back at the history of China's lunar exploration, Chang'e-1, launched in 2007, successfully completed the first phase of the "Orbiting the Moon" mission and collided with the Moon in a controlled manner. Launched in 2010, Chang'e-2 obtained the world's first 7-meter resolution map of the whole moon, focusing on the exploration of the pre-selected lunar landing area of Chang'e-3, and carried out an extended mission after completing the established mission, becoming an artificial asteroid orbiting the sun in 2012, setting a record for the farthest deep space tracking and control distance of the continent at that time. Chang'e-3, launched in 2013, made a breakthrough in lunar landing technology and achieved the first soft landing and roving exploration of China's extraterrestrial objects. In November 2014, the third phase of the lunar exploration re-entry and return flight test vehicle successfully returned to the grassland of central Inner Mongolia, marking a key breakthrough in China's lunar exploration "return" technology. The Chang'e-4 relay satellite, launched in 2018, broke through the communication problems on the far side of the moon and the ground, becoming the first human probe to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon. The Chang'e-5 spacecraft, launched in 2020, landed safely at the Siziwangqi landing site, achieving China's first lunar sample return; Chang'e-6, launched in 2024, has completed the first sample return from the far side of the moon in human history, marking an important milestone in the mainland's lunar exploration program.
So far, China's lunar exploration spacecraft that have returned to Earth have all landed in the grasslands of central Mongolia. It took 7 years for China's lunar exploration to go from orbiting to landing, and 4 years from the front of the moon to the far side of the moon, and the time is also accelerating.
The Chang'e-6 returner returned to the landing site of the Four Princes Banner of Inner Mongolia. Photo by reporter Meng He Chaolu
At present, some technologies of lunar exploration have been applied in the "Tianwen-1" Mars exploration mission and civilian fireproof clothing.
In September 2023, the fourth lesson of the "Tiangong Classroom" will be launched, and a ground classroom will be set up in Ejina Banner for the first time. Children in the Ejina Desert ask questions to astronauts in the vastness of space, and space is embodied in the eyes of the children.
Siziwangqi, which has welcomed the return of the Shenzhou spacecraft many times, has a Shenzhou Hope Primary School, which is a primary school donated and aided by aerospace-related departments, and the donation comes from a work that once traveled in space on the Shenzhou spacecraft. The school's campus is full of aerospace elements, and students often make space models by hand. The China Academy of Space Technology has helped more than 1,700 left-behind children here, and aerospace experts often come to teach students about aerospace and plant the seeds of exploring the sea of stars in their hearts. On June 25 this year, some of the children here were lucky enough to visit the Chang'e-6 recycling site.
Local people in Inner Mongolia held high the national flag to celebrate the safe landing of the Chang'e-6 returner. Photo by reporter Meng He Chaolu
In the exhibition hall of the Ulanqab Border Management Detachment, there are also photos related to aerospace, landing site duty logs, etc. From Shenzhou to Chang'e, every spacecraft that landed in the Siziwang Banner, they participated in security.
"Whether in the core area or in the periphery, as long as there is a 1% chance of landing point, we must be ready for attendance according to 100% probability of landing point and 100% confidence and determination." The relevant personnel of the People's Armed Forces Department of the Siziwang Banner, who have participated in aerospace security many times, said.
A manned landing on the moon will be achieved by 2030, and a basic international lunar research station will be built by 2035......
Temurbaatar and his wife pose for a group photo at the Chang'e-6 returner. Photo by reporter Meng He Chaolu
The lunar exploration project has been moving forward, and Temurbatel, the herdsman of the Siziwangqi who landed the Chang'e-6 returner in his own grassland, also expects that the Chang'e returner will also land in his own grassland, and looks forward to welcoming the Chinese returning to the moon on his own grassland.
In the future, we will continue to write new space poems together
The "Dongfanghong-1" satellite has a design life of 20 days and actually works for 28 days, and 54 years have passed, and it is still operating in space.
Dongfeng Auditorium, a landmark building in Dongfeng Space City.
"Write poems you haven't written", in the theme promotion song of the movie "My Fathers and Me", this sentence is moving. The story of "Poems" of "My Fathers and Me" depicts the story of the Sixth Aerospace Academy in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and the Dongfeng Space City in Ejinaqi.
Shenzhou flying into the sky, Tiangong stationed in the sky, Chang'e taking the moon, Beidou guiding the way, Tianwen probing fire, Xi and day by day, Inner Mongolia and there is glory.
In the hot land of Shenzhou's take-off and landing, the Ejina Banner of the Alxa League, there is a research trip of "flying in the sky and chasing dreams". Walking in the former site of the party and government organs of Ejina Banner - Baori Wula, witness the history of the people of Ejina Banner who took the initiative to move out of the "Sanyi Banner Mansion" of the abundant pasture of water and grass for the aerospace industry of the motherland; Visit the historical exhibition hall of the launch center and feel the profound and broad aerospace spirit; In the Dongfeng Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, where more than 700 martyrs are buried, the martyrs are remembered with respect...... In recent years, Ejina Banner has made great efforts to create the "Ejina Banner Aerospace Science and Technology Research Tourism" and the Ejina Banner "Feeling the Feelings of the Family and Country · Lifting the Heavy Weapons of the Great Country" patriotic education theme routes, sowing the seeds of dedication to the motherland and bravely entering the future.
The former site of Baori Ula of the Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.
Currently, there are a total of 35 geographical entities named after Chinese elements on the Moon. By November 2023, China had signed more than 150 intergovernmental space cooperation agreements with more than 50 countries and international organizations. In Brazil, the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite guards the tropical rainforest; In Laos, the Laos-1 communications satellite sent distance education signals to remote mountain villages; In Tajikistan, the manager of the Sarez Lake dam uses the Beidou system to monitor dam deformation...... From the Beidou satellite navigation system to manned spaceflight, from the full completion of China's space station to the in-depth advancement of lunar exploration and fire exploration projects, China's aerospace industry has always been writing a moving poem of global openness, cooperation and collaborative exploration.
With human curiosity, China's interstellar exploration is moving towards a more vast starry sky. It is expected that Shenzhou 19, which payloads will be carried out in October, and which experiments will be carried out.
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