China’s vision on space is ambitious. Yes, they want to know the conformation of the planets and solve mysteries of the Universe. But they also have the goal of doing enormous mining work on other rocky bodies that are not Earth.to earn money.
For that they have an ambitious plan with which they intend to colonize the entire Solar System, or at least the planets, Mondays and asteroids they may land on. The confidential reports in a review that China’s timetable for this mission is to start in 2035 and end in 2100.
The Asian giant’s space agency intends to install a space mining network in Mars, the Moon, some asteroids that have already been identified and even Jupiter’s natural satellitesr.
Wang Wei, a scientist at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporationexplains that the plan of their organizations is to exploit the mining and energy resources of various bodies in the Solar System.
They will have to develop new technologies to achieve this, but they already have the plan in mind and on paper. In fact, they compare this situation with the age of navigation, in which humans went out to explore the seas of the Earth.
“Like the miracles created in the great age of navigation, a great space age, with the use of space resources (…), will create the next miracles in human history and bring a new prosperity to our civilization”, reads a publication from China Space News, the Asian giant’s state science news site.
One of the new technologies to execute this plan is the development (on track) of a better space station than the ISS, to serve as a port of entry to the near and deep areas of the Solar System.
There is already a mining mission in previous jobs. This is the Tianwen-2 robotic space probe, which will be launched in 2025. This ship will go to collect rocks from an asteroid called 2016 HO3.
The composition of this asteroid indicates that it is composed mainly of metallic oxides, such as iron and magnesium. It also contains small amounts of silicates and other minerals. China says there are some 700 rocks near Earth, of which 122 are economically suitable for mining.