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China outlines pathway for lunar and deep space exploration
HELSINKI — China has laid out its pathway for robotic and crewed lunar and deep space exploration, with a number of missions building towards a permanent moon base.
Three upcoming robotic missions will set in place landers, orbiters, relay satellites and test key technologies needed to begin construction of China’s International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) in the 2030s.
While China is now planning a short-term crewed lunar landing mission before the end of the decade, ILRS will initially be a robotic base that will be permanently habitable after 2035.
China is currently working towards launch of the Chang’e-6, 7 and 8 mission in the coming years to set the stage of the larger moon base initiative, senior space official Wu Weiren told China Central Television (CCTV) after the conclusion of the four-day United Nations/China Global Partnership Workshop on Space Exploration and Innovation in Haikou on the island province of Hainan on Nov. 24.
Chang’e-6, a backup to the successful 2020 Chang’e-5 lunar sample return, will attempt to collect up to two kilograms of material from the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the lunar far side in 2026. The landing is expected to take place at a similar latitude to the 2019 Chang’e-4 landing in Von Karman crater due to engineering constraints.
A new lunar relay satellite will also be launched to facilitate communications with missions targeting the vicinity of the south pole of the moon. Chang’e-7 will launch around 2026 and consist of an orbiter, lander, rover and “mini flying detector,” to study the lunar topography, material composition and environment, with the latter spacecraft to look for the presence of water-ice.
The mission will aim to investigate permanently shadowed areas at the lunar south pole and both the U.S. and China have overlapping target landing areas in the region.
“We hope that Chang’e-7 will use its hopping detector to investigate one or two of those craters and find out whether there is any water inside,” Wu said.
Chang’e-8, currently scheduled for launch around 2028, will be an in-situ resource utilization and 3D-printing technology test mission. The infrastructure launched as part of these missions will serve as a basis to support the larger ILRS initiative.
China is also now working towards a crewed lunar landing before 2030. The mission would use two launches of an under-development new generation crew launch vehicle to send three astronauts to the moon, seeing two of them set down on the surface for around six hours. The requisite spacecraft and lunar lander are in development.
ILRS will see five launches across the early 2030s to put in place n-orbit and surface infrastructure for energy, communications, in-situ resource utilization and other technologies.
These missions will require the lifting capability of the planned Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket, which officials recently announced has undergone changes in its design to make it reusable. Earlier plans would see the Long March 9 rocket be expendable.
The South China Morning Post also reported that Wu stated China was working on a “new system that uses nuclear energy to address the moon station’s long-term, high-power energy demands.”
Wu has been a strong advocate of such technologies to fuel space exploration, including missions to the edges of the solar system. In August a megawatt-level reactor designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences passed a key review.
Unveiled in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2021, the plan envisions five missions named ILRS-1 through 5 focusing respectively on energy and communications, research and exploration facilities, in-situ resource utilization, general technologies and astronomy capabilities.
“We prepare to work with other countries to build the International Lunar Research Station and appeal to them to join hands with us in conducting the designing and surveying and the subsequent scientific data sharing…. We hope to finish building the ILRS by 2035 and we also hope it will grow to be a national mega science project,” Wu said.
China’s current partner for the endeavor is Russia, which pledges to integrate its planned Luna missions into the initiative as well as contribute with super heavy-lift launcher missions.
China declared its openness to international partnerships for ILRS and deep space missions at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris in September, but Russia was not mentioned in the plans.
The omission of China’s main partner was likely due to sensitivity to the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the situation poses a dilemma for China in its attempt to broaden its cooperation.
Wu also reiterated China’s plans for a near Earth asteroid sample return mission, Mars sample return, sending twin probes to opposite ends of the heliosphere, a mission targeting Jupiter and Uranus, and a planetary defense test.
The latter asteroid deflection mission will include both a survey spacecraft and an impactor, Wu said, targeting an object with a diameter of about 30 meters, earlier revealed as 2020 PN1.
Wu also hinted at even grander plans. “In the next 15 years, I think we should start preparations for sending human beings to Mars and we should leave Chinese people’s footprints on the moon,” Wu said.
Wave of Russian missiles hit Ukraine after Zelensky outlines conditions for peace at G20 summit
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Russia launched its biggest wave of missile attacks on Ukrainian cities in more than a month on Tuesday – hours after Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky proposed a peace plan in front of world leaders at the G20 summit in Indonesia.
Air raid sirens sounded out across Ukraine shortly after its leader outlined a 10-point plan including the withdrawal of Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
The strikes targeted power infrastructure in several regions of the country, leaving more than seven million Ukrainians without power and the supply of electricity in a critical condition, according to senior Ukrainian officials.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said that 15 facilities of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure had been damaged during the Russian missile strikes, but Ukrainian air defenses had shot down 70 of more than 90 missiles fired at Ukraine.
Two missiles or rockets also reportedly hit a farm in Poland near the border with Ukraine, killing two people, according to Polish media. It is unclear where the projectiles came from, but they landed roughly the same time as a Russian missile attack on western Ukraine.
Two projectiles reportedly hit Poland around the same time as the Russian onslaught in Ukraine, with Polish media showing an image of a deep impact and upturned farm vehicle at the site, near the town of Przewodow.
A government spokesman said that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has convened the Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense Affairs.
Poland is a NATO member state, and the defense alliance is looking into the matter, a NATO official told CNN.
Fellow NATO members the United States and the United Kingdom remained circumspect in their statements about the incident.
A senior White House official said they do not have confirmation of any rocket or missile strike in Poland, but that US officials are currently working to try and figure out exactly what has happened.
Zelensky in contrast blamed Russia for incident, which was echoed by NATO member Latvia. “The terror is not limited to our national borders,” Zelensky said in his daily address.
Amid speculation over the projectiles’ origin, Russia’s Defense Ministry denied responsibility, saying there were “no strikes made on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border.” Polish authorities also have not confirmed that Russian missiles landed in their territory.
At least a dozen cities and districts in Ukraine were targeted by Rusisan strikes, according to a CNN analysis of the missile strikes. The wave of strikes appears to be the largest since October 10, when Russia stepped up its campaign to destroy electricity, water and gas infrastructure across Ukraine.
In a video message posted to Telegram on Tuesday evening local time, Zelensky said that 85 missile strikes had been launched against Ukraine so far, and warned there may be more to come.
“We can see what the enemy wants, they will not succeed,” he said. “We may yet have 20 more strikes, please look after yourselves, stay in shelter for some time.”
In the capital, Kyiv, the city military administration said that one person had been killed. Two explosions had been heard, it added, instructing residents to remain in shelters. It said four missiles had been shot down.
Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko then said there had been a third strike. “Another hit in Pechersk district of Kyiv city. A high-rise building,” Klitschko said.
Power supplies were disrupted to several Ukrainian regions as a result of the missile strikes.
State power supplier Ukrenergo said the Russians were “trying to turn off the lights in the country again.”
“The attack is still ongoing, we cannot yet estimate the full extent of the damage, there are strikes on our infrastructure in all regions of the country, but the most difficult situation is in the northern and central regions,” it added.
In his video message, Zelensky said that authorities are working to restore power. “We will withstand,” he said.
In addition the country “is currently experiencing a major internet disruption,” according to Netblocks, which tracks cybersecurity and connectivity around the world, with connectivity at 67% of previous levels.
Neighboring Moldova also suffered power cuts following the Russian strikes on Ukraine, Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Andrei Spinu said on Tuesday.
Spinu said in a post on his Telegram account that “following Russia’s bombardment of the Ukrainian power system,” one of the power lines carrying electricity to Moldova has been disconnected. Authorities are working to restore the connection to the line, which was not damaged but was disconnected as a safety measure, he added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Zelensky set out a proposal for ending the Russian invasion, according to a transcript shared by the Embassy of Ukraine in Indonesia on Tuesday.
The president’s peace plan has 10 steps including a path to nuclear safety, food security, a Special Tribunal for Russian war crimes, and a final peace treaty with Russia, according to the speech transcript.
He urged G20 leaders to use all of their power to “make Russia abandon nuclear threats” and implement a price cap on energy imported from Moscow.
Zelensky also called on Russia to stop bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as winter approaches.
“Let Russia prove by its rejection of terror that it is really interested in the restoration of peace,” he said.
Moscow has been isolated at this year’s G20 summit as multiple Western leaders vowed not to have any contact with its Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is in attendance on behalf of the Kremlin.
World leaders condemned Tuesday’s strikes. At the summit, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a tweet that the attacks targeting Ukrainian cities “shows only Putin’s weakness,” who “is losing on the battlefield and – as we saw today at the G20 – diplomatically too.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said “at the moment we are hearing again of brutal Russian missile attacks on Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv and other places, and especially again on civilian infrastructure,” during remarks on Tuesday with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi in Berlin.
She added that the attack “is also an unprecedented attack on nuclear safety and nuclear security.”
Google Outlines Why They Are Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome
Following yesterday’s article about Google Chrome preparing to deprecate the JPEG-XL image format, a Google engineer has now provided their reasons for dropping this next-generation image format.
As noted yesterday, a patch is pending for the Google Chrome/Chromium browser to deprecate the still-experimental (behind a feature flag) JPEG-XL image format support from their web browser. The patch marks Chrome 110 and later as deprecating JPEG-XL image support.
No reasoning was provided for this deprecation, which is odd considering JPEG-XL is still very young in its lifecycle and has been receiving growing industry interest and support. Now this evening is a comment from a Google engineer on the Chromium JPEG-XL issue tracker with their expressed reasons:
“Thank you everyone for your comments and feedback regarding JPEG XL. We will be removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium for the following reasons:
– Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely
– There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL
– The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default
– By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome”
Google finding “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem” around JPEG-XL is rather surprising considering that the bitstream was only frozen in late 2020 and the file format was only standardized last year and the coding system since earlier this year. While JPEG-XL has been available with Chrome, it’s been off-by-default behind a feature flag, and so until that browser support matures (or were to mature), obviously web developers aren’t aggressively pushing JPEG-XL. The libjxl tooling also remains in a pre-1.0 state.
A few Phoronix readers wrote in following yesterday’s article to note that Google is now also not pursuing WebP 2 as a released image format. Rather their WebP 2 effort is to be “used as a playground for image compression experiments.”
So moving ahead with JPEG-XL support to be removed from Chrome and WebP 2 not being pursued as a released image format itself, it’s looking like Google will be focusing on ultimately further advancing WebP and AVIF for next-gen images.
New N.Korea law outlines nuclear weapons use, including preemptive strikes
A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool
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SEOUL, Sept 9 (Reuters) – North Korea has officially enshrined the right to use preemptive nuclear strikes to protect itself in a new law that leader Kim Jong Un said makes its nuclear status “irreversible” and bars denuclearisation talks, state media reported on Friday.
The move comes as observers say North Korea appears to be preparing to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 2017, after historic summits with then-U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders in 2018 failed to persuade Kim to abandon his weapons development.
The North’s rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly, passed the legislation on Thursday as a replacement to a 2013 law that first outlined the country’s nuclear status, according to state news agency KCNA.
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“The utmost significance of legislating nuclear weapons policy is to draw an irretrievable line so that there can be no bargaining over our nuclear weapons,” Kim said in a speech to the assembly, adding that he would never surrender the weapons even if the country faced 100 years of sanctions.
Among the scenarios that could trigger a nuclear attack would be the threat of an imminent nuclear strike; if the country’s leadership, people or existence were under threat; or to gain the upper hand during a war, among other reasons.
A deputy at the assembly said the law would serve as a powerful legal guarantee for consolidating North Korea’s position as a nuclear weapons state and ensuring the “transparent, consistent and standard character” of its nuclear policy, KCNA reported.
“Actually spelling out the conditions for use are especially rare, and it may simply be a product of North Korea’s position, how much it values nuclear weapons, and how essential it sees them for its survival,” said Rob York, director for regional affairs at the Hawaii-based Pacific Forum.
PREEMPTIVE STRIKES
The original 2013 law stipulated that North Korea could use nuclear weapons to repel invasion or attack from a hostile nuclear state and make retaliatory strikes.
The new law goes beyond that to allow for preemptive nuclear strikes if an imminent attack by weapons of mass destruction or against the country’s “strategic targets”, including its leadership, is detected.
“In a nutshell, there are some really vague and ambiguous circumstances in which North Korea is now saying it might use its nuclear weapons,” Chad O’Carroll, founder of the North Korea-tracking website NK News, said on Twitter.
“I imagine the purpose is to give U.S. and South Korean military planners pause for thought over a much wider range of actions than before,” he added.
Like the earlier law, the new version vows not to threaten non-nuclear states with nuclear weapons unless they join with a nuclear-armed country to attack the North.
The new law adds, however, that it can launch a preemptive nuclear strike if it detects an imminent attack of any kind aimed at North Korea’s leadership and the command organization of its nuclear forces.
That is an apparent reference to South Korea’s “Kill Chain” strategy, which calls for preemptively striking North Korea’s nuclear infrastructure and command system if an imminent attack is suspected.
Kim cited Kill Chain, which is part of a three-pronged military strategy being boosted under new South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, as a sign that the situation is deteriorating and that Pyongyang must prepare for long-term tensions.
Under the law, Kim has “all decisive powers” over nuclear weapons, but if the command and control system is threatened, then nuclear weapons may be launched “automatically”.
If Kim delegates launch authority to lower commanders during a crisis, that could increase the chances of a catastrophic miscalculation, analysts said.
‘RESPONSIBLE NUCLEAR STATE’
The law bans any sharing of nuclear arms or technology with other countries, and is aimed at reducing the danger of a nuclear war by preventing miscalculations among nuclear weapons states and misuse of nuclear weapons, KCNA reported.
Analysts say Kim’s goal is to win international acceptance of North Korea’s status as a “responsible nuclear state.”
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has offered to talk to Kim any time, at any place, and Yoon has said his country would provide massive amounts of economic aid if Pyongyang began to give up its arsenal.
South Korea on Thursday offered to hold talks with North Korea on reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, in its first direct overture under Yoon, despite strained cross-border ties. read more
North Korea has rebuffed those overtures, however, saying that the United States and its allies maintain “hostile policies” such as sanctions and military drills that undermine their messages of peace.
“As long as nuclear weapons remain on earth and imperialism remains and manoeuvres of the United States and its followers against our republic are not terminated, our work to strengthen nuclear force will not cease,” Kim said.
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ESA outlines how Venus mission will get to hellish planet
Europe’s planned Venus exploration mission will depend on a challenging aerobraking procedure to lower its orbit, which will test the thermal resiliency of the spacecraft’s materials to their limits.
The EnVision mission, expected to launch in the early 2030s, will study the geology and atmosphere of Venus, the hellish planet that once may have looked quite like Earth but turned into a scorched hostile world due to a runaway greenhouse effect.
To get EnVision to its target orbit, 310 miles (500 kilometers) above Venus’ surface (which is so hot that it would melt lead), will take thousands of passes through the planet’s thick atmosphere over a period of two years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement (opens in new tab).
“EnVision as currently conceived cannot take place without this lengthy phase of aerobraking,” ESA’s EnVision study manager, Thomas Voirin, said in the statement.
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The van-sized spacecraft, which will launch on Europe’s future Ariane 6 rocket, will not be able to carry enough fuel to slow itself down in Venus’ orbit using onboard propulsion. Instead, it will use the aerobraking procedure and follow a highly elliptical orbit that will take it periodically to within 80 miles (130 km) of Venus’ surface at its closest and about 155,000 miles (250,000 km) from the planet at its farthest point.
ESA previously used aerobraking to slow down the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter before it entered its scientific orbit around Mars. But Mars’ atmosphere is much thinner than that of Venus, and its gravity is much lower, which affects the speed of the orbiting spacecraft.
“Aerobraking around Venus is going to be much more challenging than for Trace Gas Orbiter,” Voirin said. “The gravity of Venus is about 10 times higher than that of Mars. This means velocities about twice as high as for TGO will be experienced by the spacecraft when passing through the atmosphere, and heat is generated as a cube of velocity.”
ESA briefly tested aerobraking around Venus during the final months of the Venus Express mission, which eventually spiraled toward the planet and burned up in the atmosphere in 2014. As Venus Express was already at the end of its mission, spacecraft controllers didn’t worry about the damage sustained by the spacecraft caused by the heat. EnVision, on the other hand, will be expected to explore Venus for at least four years.
Engineers are already busy working out the right materials that would enable EnVision to withstand the extreme conditions. In addition to the heat experienced during the aerobraking procedure, the spacecraft will also be exposed to very high concentrations of highly reactive atomic oxygen. Atomic oxygen is a form of oxygen present in the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere, which consists of a single oxygen atom. Atomic oxygen, a nemesis of all low Earth orbit spacecraft, burned thermal blankets on several NASA space shuttle missions in the 1980s.
Observations by previous Venus missions showed that atomic oxygen is present in the upper layers of Venus’ atmosphere at concentrations similar to those around Earth.
“The concentration is quite high. With one pass it doesn’t matter so much, but over thousands of times it starts to accumulate and ends up with a level of atomic oxygen fluence we have to take account of, equivalent to what we experience in low Earth orbit, but at higher temperatures,” Voirin said.
ESA is currently testing materials for their ability to withstand both the heat and the concentration of atomic oxygen expected during EnVision’s aerobraking and hopes to have some candidate materials selected by the end of this year.
“We want to check that these parts are resistant to being eroded, and also maintain their optical properties — meaning they do not degrade or darken, which might have knock-on effects in terms of their thermal behavior, because we have delicate scientific instruments that must maintain a set temperature,” Voirin said. “We also need to avoid flaking or outgassing, which leads to contamination.”
Venus, sometimes considered Earth’s twin because of their similar sizes, has lately been somewhat sidelined by solar system explorers as the potentially more habitable Mars (which is likelier to harbor traces of life) has become the favorite. But a 2020 study that detected molecules that could be traces of living organisms in the planet’s sulfur-rich clouds sparked a new surge of interest in Venus.
In addition to Europe, NASA has plans to send orbiters to the scorching-hot planet: The DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions, which are expected to launch between 2028 and 2030. Currently, a lone spacecraft, Japan’s Akatsuki, is orbiting Venus, studying its dense atmosphere in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of its harsh climate.
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Marvel outlines Phase 6 with Fantastic Four and two new Avengers movies
Marvel is looking far into its future at San Diego Comic-Con. The company confirmed that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (which just got its first trailer) will end phase four of its cinematic universe on November 11th, and outlined what to expect for phase five. But Marvel also took things one step farther and detailed phase six of the MCU with a trio of movie announcements.
Things will kick off with Fantastic Four on November 28th, 2024; followed by Avengers: The Kang Dynasty on May 2nd, 2025; before wrapping up with Avengers: Secret Wars on November 7th, 2025. Marvel is calling this period of the MCU — phases four through six — the “Multiverse saga,” which will come to a close with Secret Wars.
The announcements were made during a busy panel at SDCC. Outside of the big theatrical releases, Marvel also showed off a new trailer for She-Hulk and confirmed Daredevil: Born Again for Disney Plus, which will star Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio from the original Netflix Daredevil series.
Billionaire Mark Cuban Analyzes One of His Largest Crypto Investments, Outlines How Play-To-Earn Economies Can Recover
Billionaire and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban is weighing in on how blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) games can revamp their economy.
In a new interview with Bankless, Cuban, who’s an investor in Axie Infinity (AXIE), says that the game needs to find a business model that generates enough revenue so that it can create sustainable incentives for its users.
“I told them unless you’re able to create enough of an economy that you’re able to create productivity, meaning you have enough users that you can sell ads and sponsorships and NFTs [non-fungible tokens] and earn income from all those things, in order to buy the SLPs and the tokens, the Axie tokens from users, meaning its earned to buy them, then you’re going to run into problems.”
In Axie Infinity, users breed, trade and fight creatures called Axies. The game supports two crypto assets: AXS, the game’s native token, and Smooth Love Potion (SLP), which is the token needed to breed new creatures. Both AXS and SLP both massively down from their all-time highs.
At time of writing, AXS is trading at $17.63, down nearly 90% from its all-time high of $159.76. Meanwhile, SLP is currently valued at $0.004, a 99% devaluation from its peak of $0.36.
Cuban says there’s still hope for play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity to revive their economies.
“So we went from play-to-earn being this great thing, and it helped people in the Philippines, to ‘Okay, it’s barely hanging on.’ And no new play-to-earn platforms have succeeded that I know of.
If Axie would’ve gone in, and they still can do it and I hope they do – even though I’m an investor, I don’t really have that kind of connection with them to tell them what to do. If they’re out there selling ads and sponsorships and taking that money and buying tokens from the people who are playing to earn so that there’s some replenished economy, that works. If I buy one of those NFTs, you take my money you buy some SLP.”
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