China Plans To Install A Monitoring System On The Moon

Illustration of China's surveillance post on the Moon. (photo: dialymail.com)

JAKARTA - China plans in the next few years to install surveillance systems that see all directions on the moon to protect planned lunar bases greater than Disneyland, using the technology used to keep an eye on its citizens.

The country wants to use its'successful experience' of its authoritarian surveillance system to protect planned bases from'suspicious targets', according to a research paper written by scientists at the country's space agency published in the academic journal.

This is the largest surveillance network in the world, and is used to monitor every corner of China. With more than 600 million cameras, there is on average one camera for every two adults in the country.

The lunar version of the program will have a camera equipped with an artificial intelligence chip 'able to identify, locate, track, and target suspicious targets independently' scanning the planned International Lunar Research Station.

The cameras will be able to operate using visible light and infrared light.

The authors of the paper, which also comes from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and Zhejiang University, wrote that if an 'unnormality' was detected by the system, it would'mediately produce alarm signals and initiate appropriate response actions.' But the paper did not specify what the 'action' meant.

China, along with Russia, plans to open a lunar lunar lunar research station with a radius of nearly four miles, larger than any Disney theme park. The center will accommodate command centers, power plants, communication centers, and research facilities.

China wants to start building a lunar base in the next few years, and aims to establish a basic setup using the ground from the moon in 2028.

Ding Lieyun, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said a team designed a robot called the 'Chinese Super Rock Resilient' to make bricks from lunar soil, a Chinese media report.

The Ding team previously proposed an egg-shaped base that can be built from a soil brick, called the Moon's Vas, which can be created using a 3D printer and laser and accommodates astronauts.

"Building a lunar habitat is necessary for long-term lunar exploration, and will definitely be realized in the future," Ding said, admitting the difficulty of achieving it in the short term.

"The robot in charge of making a 'bata moon land' will be launched during China's Chang'e-8 mission around 2028," Ding said.

China is also rumored to have a target to sample the world's first soil from the far side of the month during a mission that could be carried out by 2025 at the earliest. The super force previously took soil samples from the near side of the moon with its Chang'e-5 mission in 2020.

The country stated that it wants to place its astronauts to stay on the moon for a long period of time after setting up a lunar research station.