China's Plan to Establish a Permanent Base on the Moon

While the US and its partners are planning to carry out the Artemis Program in the coming decade, China is preparing the competing "ILRS", aka the International Lunar Research Station. In this episode, we do a deep dive into China's permanent lunar base project and its scientific and political ramifications.

00:00 Artemis and the ILRS (introduction)
00:43 China's Moon Program: Early Beginnings
01:58 Chang'e 1 to Chang'e 6
02:35 First Mention of the ILRS
03:21 Private Internet Access
05:14 The ILRS Becomes a Sino-Russian Project
06:02 ILRS Phase 1 - Moon Base "Basic Model"
06:57 ILRS Phase 2 - Moon Base "Construction Phase"
10:09 How China plans to launch the ILRS hardware
11:20 Can the ILRS become international?

[a.j.ltargaryen]

Why should they? The US blocked China from entering the ISS. Why do you ask them to forget and forgive?

[AZ-comn]

China doesn’t need an international team to do what they plan to do. They have been very successful doing by themselves. In the future if some countries want to tag along, it’s fine with China but absolutely not necessary for China to move forward. I have confidence that China can do it by themselves for whatever they plan to do. Their record so far speaks the volumes.❤

[carcinogenyearsago]

You're my go-to for Chinese space updates.

[sajanbabu]

Well done China, , the technology Giant 💪🏻💪🏻❤

[stenyethanmathews]

For any kind of building venture my bet is on China. Their infrastructure development is just on another level. No other country even comes close.

[hkfoo]

China should not make it international. Make it purely Chinese and never let US and west access to it

[AdamJRowen]

Didn’t bring the Chinese when the international station first launches, knocked their application off with various ‘reasons’; guess it’s their term now.

[PinkLittleElephant]

Another in-depth objective and entertaining presentation of the Chinese space programme!

[SamLamphong]

Why should we Chinese make it international? Just cooperate with our allies, why should we let our enemies join too?

[JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

Thanks for this extended summary of the ambitious Moon project.

[absolutejewel]

As we speak, the two US astronauts are still stranded in the ISS.

[xabiermorales]

I totally understand chinese ppl to build every part of the project infrastructure. China is one of the most important insubordinated countries against anglozionist hegemony ruled by USA at the moment, relegate those construction tasks to other country would be a sustantial high risk due to possible USA interference/sabotajes. From the other side, no one is gonna sabotaje the construction of Artemis infrastructure, since Its USA itself the one that maintains that hegemony over most of the members u mentioned (not all of them are puppets).
One more thing Dongfang. I recently saw a reusable rocket done by China that went up 10km. Is there more info I can check about that?
Have a nice day and thanks for the video, as always.

[DanBurgaud]

My money on Team China: USA cannot PRINT the Lunar base, but China can BUILD it.

[DucaTech]

I think China is better off going it alone. More partners = more problems

[Stefan-oink]

If I remember right, China had already signed an agreement with Russia for space programs including moon base. Thus, technically, it’d be international.

[pleongv]

With China speed, I bet on ILRS to be successful and sustainable due to the effectiveness and efficiency of Chinese govt and bureaucracy

[goodcitizen]

Nice presentation with no political bias. Thanks!

[TomDrez]

Just like tiangong space station international relations in space are good for short term political gains, but they'll only be relevant on the long term when china will have settled on the moon basically by themselves, and while they keep taking market after market and investing into other developing nations space programs, they'll have a direct hand in their activities, so if others countries are interested in space or even the moon they'll quickly realize how out of reach it is for them, they'll have no choice but to depend on china, that's a smart move no matter what you think of it because at least that will allow them to use another country infrastructure to access places and ressources unavailables otherwise, this is some immenses long term political gains for china.

Btw artemis is a joke you don't need to be smart to figure that out, this week they just lost a contract made with collins aerospace to develop suits for the artemis program, the thing is it's the most experienced company in the u.s that do that, and the actual suits are now way too old they had to cancel an operation on the iss because of leaks, on the chineses part everything is moving out just fine if not ahead of schedule, on the western part everything go from bad to worse;

Missions of scientific nature are getting freezed or cancelled.

Starship is showing limitations when it didn't even reached leo.

Starliner is full of leak and boeing is about to disappear as things go on.

Clps missions are nothing but failures.

The european union nations are about to collapse economically and the u.s might follow within a few years.

While china did build up a lot of experience and keep their plans ongoing, nasa lost it all in half a century of inactivity on the moon.

Orion spacecraft still have issues of unknown nature that make the re entry shield unsuitable for a manned mission to occur

And not last but i'm going to stop there because i don't want to write a comment that may actually be deleted for no reasons, an inactive russian satellite exploded forcing the iss crew to prepare to evacuate the station asap just in case as the satellite was on iss orbit. And they really don't need that.

Nothing actually go well on the american side and the progress of the manned spaceflight part are really limited and we've yet to know if hls starship is even feasible, nothing is made seriously there that's for sure, and i don't talk about the lunar settlement part, nothing currently exist that even look like a plan, there's no architecture, and we're not even a decade away from the moment they're supposed to have a base?

At some point the various countries that signed the artemis accords (mostly because of the legendary pressure the petty us gov is capable of) will have to tear up the whole thing if they want to collaborate with china, not because china will forbid it's partners to work with the us, but because the u.s will forbid the ones they see as pawns to work with china.

[leonleon]

China is every definition of: "Fine, I will do it myself".

[kmich]

The answer is a no brainer. Any country except the exceptional country, exceptionally troublesome.😊