The highest honor! China Chang'e-5 team won international awards

Source: China Economic Network WeChatRecently, NASA announced that at the 74th International Astronautical Congress, the Chinese Chang'e-5 team won the Lawrence Team Award, which is the highest team honor of the International Academy of Astronautics and Astronautics. At this conference, the National Space Administration announced that the Chang'e-5 lunar research sample will be open for international application, and scientists from all countries are welcome to study together and share the results

Source: China Economic Network WeChat

Recently, NASA announced that at the 74th International Astronautical Congress, the Chinese Chang'e-5 team won the Lawrence Team Award, which is the highest team honor of the International Academy of Astronautics and Astronautics. At this conference, the National Space Administration announced that the Chang'e-5 lunar research sample will be open for international application, and scientists from all countries are welcome to study together and share the results.

The Lawrence Team Award was established in 2001 and is one of the two major awards awarded annually by the International Academy of Astronautics. It aims to recognize aerospace project teams that have achieved outstanding results in the field of aerospace, mainly reflected in three aspects: technological innovation, scientific discovery, and international cooperation.

Hu Hao, the chief designer of the third phase of the National Space Administration's lunar exploration project and the chief designer of the Chang'e-5 mission, said, "What feels very prominent is the recognition of China's aerospace development by international peers. In the process of lunar exploration, we recognize the process we have experienced, including the achievements achieved, the significance and impact produced

Chang'e-5 was China's first unmanned lunar sampling and return mission, and it was the most complex and technologically spanning space system engineering in China at that time. Breakthrough key technologies such as lunar surface sampling, lunar takeoff and ascent, lunar orbit rendezvous and docking, sample transfer, and skip re-entry and return. After a interlocking flight process, 1731 grams of lunar samples were brought back, becoming the world's largest single unmanned lunar sampling mission.

Hu Hao stated that the lunar sample is highly recognized internationally, and some foreign experts and research institutions are also eager to obtain this sample for scientific research. The team is organizing research on how to implement these procedures and methods, gradually opening up to the international community. International colleagues can also participate and apply to study samples obtained from the moon in China.

Hu Hao introduced that in accordance with the requirements of the National Space Administration's "Measures for the Management of Lunar Samples" and the "International Cooperation Management Rules for Lunar Samples and Scientific Data", the application steps for Chang'e-5 lunar scientific research samples open to the international community are: online registration, filling out application materials, letter review, defense, review, signing agreements, receiving, returning, etc. The specific requirements and processes will be published on the National Space Administration's website.

At present, NASA has completed the distribution of six batches of 258 lunar samples totaling 77.68 grams to Chinese scientists. Published over 70 papers in authoritative journals both domestically and internationally. Through the study of lunar samples, it has been determined that the formation time of young basalt is 2.03 billion years, which is 800 million years longer than previous human cognition.

The location of our landing, the period of lunar activity, and the research on samples obtained from other countries are different. Our landing site is relatively young, providing more evidence of lunar activity and playing a very important role in expanding our understanding of the moon, "Hu Hao said.

Through the three-step mission of "orbiting, falling, and returning" completed in the previous lunar exploration project, China has the ability to conduct various technical verifications on the moon, which has also laid the foundation for future travel to even farther planets. Lunar exploration is a stepping stone for Chinese people to enter deep space.

We can not only go to the moon, but also conduct surveys and explorations around the moon, drive the 'Jade Rabbit' lunar rover on the moon, and return to Earth after rendezvous and docking in lunar orbits. This series of technical support ensures that we can expand our human footsteps to other planets, "Hu Hao said.

In addition, collecting samples from the moon can deepen human understanding of the moon and provide important technical support for further utilizing the moon.

Hu Hao stated that the achievements of lunar exploration in the past 20 years are very worthwhile. The purpose of exploration is to apply, and the subsequent application of the moon will play an important role in utilizing its environmental conditions for scientific, economic, and social development services.

20Source: China Economic Network WeChat

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