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I expect this post won't garner the same attention here. I wonder why that might be.

• sho_hn 5y ago
  While I know what you mean (and it's true to some extent), I think the media strategy and of course lang sphere barrier are factors. With the American Mars landing it's a big live event with the landing time known down to the second in advance, designed to generate a lot of momentous excitement. The Chinese space programme tends to release information more sparingly and after the fact. I'd actually love to know more about this from a good English source (unfortunately I haven't taken the time to study Mandarin), really. Especially the engineering - it's been a while since we had two distinct tech stacks on the Red Planet, it'd be cool to compare and contrast.
  • Dah00n 5y ago
    The official site of CNSA is available in English: http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html
  • jacquesm 5y ago
    Part of that is because a lot of space activity in the West is competing for public funding and so you get a huge amount of publicity around any event to ensure that the public sees where its money goes. A plan economy doesn't really have that problem, publicity is an afterthought and if it has value that is more on the international stage (so when it is successful) then nationally, where it is welcome but not a necessity. So that's why you'll see the accent on success rather than on activity.