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Al termine di un anno ricco di successi, l’Agenzia Spaziale Cinese ha pubblicato ieri China’s Space Activities in 2016. Nel nuovo libro bianco viene tracciato un bilancio delle attività dell’agenzia e sono elencati i progetti futuri nell’ambito di un programma spaziale senza dubbio molto ambizioso. Un articolo su Planetary Society riassume i punti principali del documento.

One key point is that China clearly sees space as having a major role in the development of the country, so as to “meet the demands of economic, scientific and technological development, national security and social progress.” […]  Though it still lags significantly behind the capabilities of the United States, China now has a comprehensive and serious space program, and one that should not, as in the past, be easily dismissed as merely for prestige or mainly military in nature, nor should it be seen simply aping what has come before and copying technology. China is definitely a major space player to keep an eye on.