The Next Gen-Gen Capsule in China for Moon Missions Aces Aces Important Trial of Pad-Abort (video)

China has progressed in technology development should try to prevent the ones back to the moon.

China Maned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) completes a rapport pad in its test Mengzhou Spacecraft Today (June 17), marked another step forward in the efforts of shipping of Chinese astronauts, or taikonouts, on the lunar face for the first time. The zero-altitude order started at 13:30 PM Beijing (12:30 AM EDT; 0430 GMT), from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in Northwest China.

With only Mengzhou spacecraft on the pad (no rocket), the solid fireworks Aborte escaping machines in capsule fired for approximately 20 seconds, According to CMSEO. At the highest, the escape of a Mengzhou charged, and a trio of parachutes guides the spacecraft safely in the airbag in Entables (12:32 AM EDT; 0432 GMT). CMSEO calls trying “a complete success.”

Tests like this allows spacecraft engineers to verify safety systems in new spacecraft not set lives in the crew of the crew. In the event of an in-flight emergency during an actual launch, Mengzhou’s capsule escape tower is designed to propel the spacecraft away from the rocket in order to put a safe distance between the crew and potential disaster.

The capacity is built in almost every spacecraft designed to carry the crews since the beginning of the spaceflight. NASA’s Orion spacecraftresponsible for launching astronauts on the moon as a part of the US space agency Artemis ProgramThere is a Similar test of 2019.

While China is slightly in progress, the country’s efforts to overcome the US back to the moon may get momentum like NASA’s own plans for a lunar return at a speed return.