Russia, China Sign Lunar Cooperation Agreement
TOKYO (ROSCOSMOS PR) — On March 3, 2018, the Roscosmos State Corporation and the Chinese National Space Administration, in the framework of the International Space Development Forum (ISEF) in Tokyo, signed an agreement on intentions for cooperation in the field of exploration of the Moon and deep space, and the creation of a Data Center on lunar projects.
The sides expressed their readiness to consider the possibility of cooperation in the implementation of the Russian mission to launch the orbital spacecraft Luna-Resurs-1 (Luna-26) in 2022, as well as the planned Chinese mission for landing in the region of the south pole of the Moon in 2023. The document was signed by the general director of Roskosmos state corporation Igor Komarov and the deputy head of the Chinese national space administration Y. Yanhua.
In addition, the partners agreed to establish a joint Russian-Chinese Data Center on lunar projects and outer space, expressing readiness to involve scientific and industrial organizations and companies of Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), if necessary.
The interaction of Russia and China in the field of the exploration of outer space for peaceful purposes is dynamically developing. So, on June 25, 2016, an Agreement was signed between the Government of Russia and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on measures to protect technology in connection with cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes and in the creation and operation of launch vehicles and ground-based space infrastructure, and on December 18, the document took effect.
In addition, in November 2017, within the framework of the 22nd meeting of the heads of government of Russia and China, the State Corporation Roskosmos and the CNRC signed a program of cooperation in the space field for 2018-2022, which includes 6 sections: the study of the moon and deep space, space science and related with her technology; satellites and their applications; element base and materials; cooperation on Earth remote sensing data; monitoring of space debris and practical study of relevant issues; and other topics. Cooperating organizations of both sides have started implementing projects within the framework of this program.
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Increasingly it looks like because of its weak economy Russia will become an economic puppet of China, so this is not surprising.
https://www.rbth.com/busine…
Seven scenarios for Russia’s geopolitical future
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Mar 01, 2017
Rustem Falyakhov
“Unless Russia switches to a strategic planning of economic development on the basis of its own sources of credit, the real essence of “strategic partnership with China” will consist in the subordination of the Russian economy to the interests of China’s growth.
“Massive Chinese investment goes to the development of Russia’s fuel, energy, agro-industrial and transport sectors, which are reoriented to the needs of the Chinese market. The defense industry develops in line with the objectives of the interests of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The remaining potential of the civilian high-tech industry is developed by joint Chinese-Russian ventures. Russia retains political sovereignty, and equal military and political partnership with China,” Glazyev
predicts.”
Written after consumption of at least two bottles of Stoly’s best one assumes. All the usual belligerent, yet whiny, Russian self-pity and self-importance on full display.
News flash for Rustem – the U.S. has no interest in “colonizing” Russia. That’s psychological projection. We neither need, nor want, your land, your mingy crops, your oil, your gas or any of your other natural resources. We’ve got plenty of our own. Anything we don’t have, we can buy from other far more pleasant people.
We do want some more of the amazing-looking women you grow there, but we don’t have to invade you to get them. We’ll just do it our usual way – offer them modeling contracts and Hollywood screen tests.
We would appreciate it if you’d learn to play nice with others and quit mugging your neighbors for their lunch money. As we suspect such forbearance to be entirely beyond you, we’ll content ourselves with making sure that at least you don’t profit from such anti-social behavior.
Then all we have to do is wait until you all drink yourselves into early graves or until enough of you do that the Chinese march in, take over Siberia, relieve you of the crumbling remains of your nuclear “deterrent,” and herd what few of you remain into a decaying rump state centered on Moscow where you can expire quietly sometime in the mid-22nd century. No one is going to miss you a bit when you’re gone.
It makes sense as China has the money but Russia does have more experience. Both are scared after the success of FH that SpaceX could actually pull off the BFR system. This would hand the US military, which will buy 10 as a way to fund SpaceX and accelerate the production and testing cycle, a robust low-cost-to-operate ultraheavy lift manned space capability. Expect China-Russia to rip off the designs and try to replicate their own BFR system (like the Russians did with the Buran … oops).
Think it is already too late for the Chinese & Russians to complete with the BFR system along with everyone else. If we see a BFS hopping in South Texas next year.
The US military and the spooks does not have anything in the pipeline to warrant buying more than about 7 flights annually. Nevermind that SpaceX sells a service not hardware. However the USAF can buy 50 future BFR flights in a block buy. The Irony.
I think they want the vehicles themselves for AF pilots to fly and man … forget the payloads.
They walk away from the STS and did not look back. Why would the USAF need manned space vehicles again?
No payloads means no flights.
There is no way you can land a BFS manually. The BFR & BFS are autonomous with no pilots. People onboard is just passengers.
…The sides expressed their readiness to consider the possibility of cooperation…
That line cracks me up. Not quite ready to jump into bed together, are they. They apparently don’t trust each other even the least little bit. I don’t trust them either.