If there is one thing China has characterized in terms of the space race, it is that, despite the fact that there are many powers in this field that collaborate with each other to get a little further, they have always wanted to go it alone, marking their own roadmap and taking charge of the execution of it. A clear example of all this is the existence at the time of an International Space Station and one designed and created for the exclusive use of China.
Far from all this, the time has come for China to design, manufacture and put its new space station into orbit and, for this, they are willing to change their way of proceeding in order to attract as much talent as possible and who is interested that exists to world level. To achieve this, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the Manned Space Agency of China have just sent a statement to the United Nations Organization to offer the possibility of experiments in your new space project.
China opens its doors to researchers and collaborators who are interested in working together in the development of its new Space Station
Going into a little more detail and according to the plans that the Chinese government itself revealed a few months ago, it is expected that its new space station will be in orbit around the Earth in 2022 And, for this to happen, they hope that researchers from all over the world are interested and above all get involved and use their talent for the development of this new space station. In statements of Shi zhongjun, Ambassador of China to the United Nations:
The Chinese Space Station belongs not only to China, but also to the world. Guided by the idea of a shared future, the Chinese Space Station will become a common home in space for all humanity. It will be an inclusive home open to cooperation with all countries, a home of peace and goodwill, and a home of cooperation for mutual benefit.
It must be remembered that the International Space Station will stop providing service, foreseeably, in 2024
As I said before, this new step by China is particularly striking, which shows how the country is changing its ways of proceeding and opening its doors to international cooperation, at least to get carried away 'to good port'your objectives related to space exploration. In this way, it seems that the new space station may be the beginning of this working model with which the country intends to lead the sector thanks to the help of other countries.
As it has been revealed, to this day any organization, both public and private, as well as any interested university and even companies with scientific orientation they can at this time request their intention to be part of the project. This period specifically ends next 31 August And, if you are interested, China will offer you up to three different ways to perform orbital experiments.
In the first place we find a way through which experiments can be carried out inside the Chinese Space Station itself making use of payloads from experiments developed by the selected applicants, a second avenue for testing within the Chinese Space Station is to make use of the facilities provided by a country specific. As a third way is to do tests outside the Chinese Space Station with uploads developed by selected applicants.
As you can see, the idea of China with its new Space Station goes through open its doors to all participants who so wish, something that it can be very interesting, for example for the world of research under certain atmospheric conditions, especially if we take into account that, if everything goes according to plan, in a short time it will be the only Space Station orbiting the Earth since, as you will surely remember, the current one International Space Station will cease to serve in 2024.