Great strides of China's space programmes

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 关键词: the Moon dark matter black holes the world
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（2）
• 页码范围: 264-268
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwx006

摘要

While China's almost flawless space endeavours-such as its space lab Tiangong-2,launched last year,and the 2012 mission that sent a rover to the surface of the Moon-have long impressed the world,space-science missions were not among its priorities until recently.The situation improved in 2011 when the Chinese Academy of Sciences won government support for a 10-year Strategic Pioneering Programme on Space Science-with a total budget of nearly I billion dollars.Since then,China has launched satellites to probe dark matter,detect black holes and conduct quantum experiments from space.This year will see the launch o fan astronomy satellite and a highly anticipated mission to bring back rocks from the Moon.