Space Rocket History #296 – Space 1970 – Dongfanghong 1 & Zond 8

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With the successful launch of Dongfanghong I, China became the fifth country after the Soviet Union, United States, France, and Japan to independently launch a satellite.

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1:37.3	And now, Space 1970, Dongfang Hong 1 and Zond 8.
1:52.2	Today, we will cover the last two significant unmanned space flights launched in 1970.
1:56.7	I will begin with the first Chinese satellite.
2:11.5	In 1958, the Chinese Academy of Science proposed Project 581, which included a plan to launch a satellite into space before October 1, 1959.
2:18.6	But the project was troubled from the beginning due to China's lack of expertise in the field of rocketry. In January of 1959, Zhang Jing Fu, who was in charge of the satellite research
2:26.3	program, postponed the project to allow effort to be put into developing more basic technologies
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