Chinese have emerged in all the great projects when NASA is facing budget cuts. Although nothing is final, the ARS said earlier this year that some of the Trump administration officials wanted to reduce science programs in the US space agency. Maximum 50 %And this will include a significant reduction for planet science. Such deductions, A planet official told ARSThe United States will represent the “level of extinction” for space science and exploration.
This creates the possibility that in the coming decades, the United States can lead to space search for China.
So what will happen?
To date, the majority of China’s space science goals have been successful, which has brought reputation to a government that views space search as a projection of its soft power. By becoming an important actor in space and surpassing the United States in some areas, China can both please their population and become more attractive partners for other countries around the world.
However, if here are the failures of high -level (and shy for something led by China), will China be so willing to fund such a richness program? With the aforementioned goals, China will try some unprecedented and technically demanding missions. Some of them, of course, will face shock.
In addition, China is also investing in a human lunar program, trying to get its astronauts down at the moon level by 2030. At the same time, the government will need significantly more resources than investment to date to provide financing human and robotic programs simultaneously. How deep is China’s pocket?
So it is safe to say, therefore, some of the mission and the frames of time are wishful.
At the same time, the US Congress is likely to stop some deep deductions in search of planets, if they are proposed by the Trump administration. So NASA still has a meaningful future in search of planets. And if Companies like 2 of the Satellite is able to reduce the cost of buses, the combination of low -cost launch and planet missions will allow NASA to work less in a deep place.
The future, therefore, is yet to be won. But when it comes to deep space planets, NASA is a reliable challenge for the first time since the 1960s.