The most romantic thing about China’s aviation history is the naming history of China’s aerospace history. From Dongfanghong No. 1 to Shenzhou’s departure from the warehouse and Chang’e flying to the moon, China’s aviation naming history has gradually taken a romantic route. So far, our lunar exploration project is called "Chang'e", the lunar rover is called "Jade Rabbit", the global positioning system is called "Beidou Navigation", the manned space station is called "Tiangong", and the Mars probe is called "Tianwen". These are related to The aerospace name combined with ancient myths is a romance that belongs to Chinese astronauts. Let’s take a look at those romantic names! Our manned spacecraft - Shenzhou
"Shenzhou" means the magical boat of the Tianhe River, and is also a homophonic pronunciation of "Shenzhou". Regarding "Shenzhou", this is the explanation: Shenzhou, or "Chixian" "Shenzhou" and "Jiuzhou" are a geographical division concept in ancient China. The term "Chixian Shenzhou" first came from Zou Yan, a Yin-Yang family during the Warring States Period, and "Twelve States" originated from the legend that Shun changed Kyushu into twelve states. The scope of Kyushu extends to the East China Sea in the east, including the Liaodong region, and to the north is the Gobi Desert and the Yanshan Mountains as the dividing line between the Han ethnic areas and the grassland nomadic areas. To the west is the Hexi Corridor, Bashu and Tibet are connected, and to the south it encompasses the Lingnan region. The geographical scope of ancient Kyushu overlapped with the traditional settlement area of ??the ancient Han people, and was called "Chinese Kyushu" or "Han Jiuzhou". In this regard, "Shenzhou" represents the Chinese nation and symbolizes that spaceships are the unique product of China. "Shenzhou" also contains our motherland's dream of freedom to shuttle in space. Our lunar rover - Jade Rabbit
The Jade Rabbit may be a little strange to us, but there is a story about it: Legend has it that three gods transformed into three poor old people and begged for food from foxes, monkeys and rabbits. , the fox and the monkey both took out food to help the old man, but only the rabbit did not. Later, the rabbit told the old man: "You can eat me." After that, he jumped into the fire. The gods were greatly moved, so they sent the rabbit to When he arrived at Guanghan Palace, he became the Jade Rabbit. Later, the Jade Rabbit stayed with Chang'e in Guanghan Palace and made the elixir of immortality. But our lunar rover takes exactly this meaning, the Jade Rabbit goes to the moon and explores the vast lunar sky!
Our satellite navigation system - Beidou
The Beidou satellite navigation system consists of three parts: the space segment, the ground segment and the user segment. It can provide all-weather and all-day navigation on a global scale. Various users provide high-precision, high-reliability positioning, navigation, and timing services, and have short message communication capabilities. They have initially developed regional navigation, positioning, and timing capabilities. The positioning accuracy is decimeter and centimeter levels, and the speed measurement accuracy is 0.2 meters/second. , timing accuracy is 10 nanoseconds. It is a global navigation system independently designed and established by China. It reflects the perseverance and innovative will of China's scientific and technological aerospace workers. It brings us direction and guides us forward. Written at the end
These unique and romantic names make the original profound aerospace science and technology achievements vivid and lovely. Each name comes after a long time and has the pride of reaching for the stars. It contains the romance of our Chinese aviation people and demonstrates the full confidence of Chinese traditional culture with our strength!