{"id":111718,"date":"2020-08-21T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station"},"modified":"2020-08-21T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:26:53","slug":"china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station","title":{"rendered":"China is aiming to attract partners for an international lunar research station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has developed a vision for an international lunar research station and is seeking international involvement in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Objectives include construction and operation of human[ity]\u2019s first sharing platform in the lunar south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilization of lunar resources\u2019, according to a presentation to the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation also states an intended shift from independence to cooperation in space on the part of China. International involvement in Chinese lunar missions has so far been limited to a handful of contributed payloads, mainly to the Chang\u2019e-4 lunar far side mission.<\/p>\n<p>China National Space Administration official Pei Zhaoyu stated last year that a lunar project will be jointly designed, with its implementation to be coordinated and the results and achievements to be shared.<\/p>\n<p>Both Roscosmos and the European Space Agency have had discussions with China with regards contributing to the project.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>HELSINKI \u2014 China has developed a vision for an international lunar research station and is seeking international involvement in the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station\">Continue reading \u201cChina is aiming to attract partners for an international lunar research station\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has developed a vision for an international lunar research station and is seeking international involvement in the project. Objectives include construction and operation of human[ity]\u2019s first sharing platform in the lunar south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilization of lunar resources\u2019, according to a presentation to the Scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}