When an average person thinks about China, the Country of innovation and Great ideas on new basis of technology.
They shock the world with something out of this world.
The Manger of a private space contractor base in Chengdu, China, is currently working on a plans to launch an "artificial moon" Satellite Up to eight times as bright as the God's Made moon and capable of replacing the traditional streetlights in the Roads
The very ambitious project was Made known to the General public at a national mass innovation and entrepreneurship event held in Chengdu, a city of 14 million people in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan.
The Chairman of the private space contractor, Wu Chunfeng, revealed plans to launch an illumination satellite referred to as an ‘artificial moon’ that would be eight times as bright as Earth’s natural satellite and capable of an area with a diameter of 10-80 kilometres.
The innovative satellite “designed to complement the moon at night” has apparently been in the works for years, but thanks to the rapid advancement of technology it should be ready for launch in 2020.
While the exact details of the satellite have yet to be revealed, some media outlets report that it will have a coating that can reflect light from the sun with solar panel-like wings which can be adjusted to allow the light to focus on precise locations.
“The satellites’ brightness and service time are both adjustable, and the accuracy of the lighting can be controlled within tens of metres,” Wu Chunfeng said.
It isn’t yet known if the project has the backing of the Chinese government or even Chengdu authorities, but officials from the Chinese city declared themselves intrigued, saying that it could cut costs on streetlights and boost local tourism.
While the idea of a bright artificial moon definitely sounds interesting, it also raises a lot of questions. People on Chinese social media platform Weibo have been asking how the artificial light would affect sleep patterns and animals.
But Kang Weimin, a director at the School of Aerospace at the Harbin Institute of Technology, told CIFNews that the satellite would only produce a dusk-like glow that should not affect animals.
The intensity of the light emitted by this artificial moon is another unknown. While People’s Daily quoted WU Chufeng as saying that the light would be bright enough to replace streetlights, the Xinhua News Agency quoted him as saying that the brightness would be only a fifth that of conventional streetlights.
The satellite is said to have been inspired by the term "a French artist who thought to hang a necklace made of mirrors over the earth that could reflect sunshine through the streets of Paris all year round" and follows the Russian Znamya project, carried out in 1990 but later abandoned
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