China is developing an ambitious space project for find habitable planets outside our Solar System through an array of telescopes called Miyin Project.
According to DWthe project is expected to be ready by 2030 and will enable accurate measurements and observations of celestial objectswhich will allow us to know the distribution of molecular components such as water and clarify the process of formation of the habitability conditions of the Earth and the origin of life.
Executive Vice President of the China Academy of Aerospace Sciences and Technological Innovation Zhang Xuhui said the project is at an early stage and maturity will be accelerated through a series of test flights that will enable scientific discoveries on the fly.
The step by step for the materialization of Miyin
The Chinese space station Tiangong will be the base in 2025 for some experiments of optical interference technologya technique used to study distant celestial objects.
One year later, in 2026, an experimental satellite will be launched that will perform an interferometric detection to verify the operation of the technology that will serve as the basis for the Miyin.
The project will allow to describe the morphology and physical properties of the objects in our space neighborhood and to know the distribution in the solar system of molecular components such as water.
In recent years, China has invested heavily in its space program and has achieved milestones such as the successful landing of a probe on the far side of the Moon in January 2019, an achievement that no country had achieved to date.
Furthermore, the Chinese space station will likely become the world’s only space station if the International Space Station, a US-led initiative to which China is barred from access due to military ties to its space program, retires in 2030 as and as planned.
