CCTV News: Today (November 22), China Space Station system chief designer Yang Hong said at the conference's professional space solar power station forum that China's space station will provide on-orbit technology verification for future space solar power stations.
Yang Hong introduced that at present, the Chinese space station has completed the in-orbit assembly of the basic configuration of the three-cabin "T" character, marking that my country's aerospace technology will enter a new stage and reserve technology for my country's subsequent space exploration. Space solar power stations have the advantages of being clean and sustainable, strong light intensity and unaffected by weather operations. They are an effective means to utilize space solar energy on a large scale. In the future, China's space stations can provide on-orbit verification support for this technology.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chief Designer of China Space Station System of the Fifth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group: In the next step, we can use the existing resources and capabilities of our space station , and conduct special demonstration of experimental plans to carry out on-orbit verification of key technologies, so as to promote breakthroughs in individual technologies, accumulate on-orbit experimental data, and contribute to my country's goal of achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality.
Yang Hong said that space solar power plants are one of the directions of new green energy, but they are still facing many technical challenges, and single key technological breakthroughs can be used as the focus of the next step.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chief Designer of China Space Station System of the Fifth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group: Using our space station with robotic arms outside the cabin, we can perform some modular and modular in-orbit assembly for power station verification. After assembly, it will be released to the outside through the space station. After the orbit is lifted, the antenna array and battery array will be fully expanded, and then a small satellite that is flying with it will be released. In this case, on the one hand, it is the test of the power station module, and on the other hand, it is a small satellite that is flying with two pairs to verify the key technology in the sky.
( CCTV )