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China will launch an artificial moon into space: how and why it is needed

By 2020, Chinese scientists plan to launch an artificial moon into orbit to illuminate the streets of cities after dark. According to calculations, it can be eight times brighter than the actual, real moon, since it is located much closer to the Earth.

Фото: Depositphotos

Scientists hope to place an artificial moon over the city of Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan in China, writes Time. The new celestial body - essentially an illuminated satellite - will be equipped with a special coating that will reflect sunlight and direct it to a specific point on Earth.

Scientists estimate that the new Moon will shine eight times brighter than a normal one and will be much closer to Earth: about 500 km, compared to the 380 km distance the Moon is from our planet.

But the ambitious project "will not yet help illuminate the entire night sky," Wu Chunfeng, head of the Tian Fu scientific society, told China Daily.

“The expected brightness in human visual perception will be about one-fifth the brightness of street lamps and will be more of a twilight experience,” he explained.

Other “moons” will appear

All this could save the city of Chengdu about 1,2 billion yuan (US$173 million) a year through lower energy costs and even help during power outages such as those caused by natural disasters. If the project is successful, three more “moons” could join it in 2022.

Chengdu City at dusk. Photo: Depositphotos

But to make sure that the plan is viable and will not adversely affect the environment, many more practical tests are needed that will be carried out in the desert part of the desert, so light rays will not affect people or ground equipment, Wu said.

China's space goals are not unprecedented. According to the New York Times, in the 1990-s, Russia experimented with the use of an orbital mirror reflecting sunlight to increase the illumination of some northern cities. The project was closed in 1999 after the mirror didn’t unfold in orbit, and then burned down in the atmosphere.

In January, the American firm Rocket Lab launched an artificial star into space, reports Times. But scientists have criticized this “Star of Mankind”, since the backup mirror satellite contributed to artificial light pollution and the cluttering of the Earth’s orbit.

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