A recent Chinese media report says that by 2020, China will have its own artificial moon. In Chengdu, Sichuan province, this artificial moon will be considered as an alternative to street lights and efforts will be made to conserve electricity. The moon will be set up with the help of an organization, and there is debate about where this moon will be in China. The moon was first reported by the People's Daily Nline. However, there is not much information about this moon yet.
The artificial moon will be at a height of 5000 km
Sources have received information that it will be a mirror that will be centered in Chengdu at an altitude of about 500 km. This glass will display daylight at night. It will also explore the option of street lights in Chengdu for a population of 1.6 million. According to a report, the brightness of the artificial moon will be eight times higher than the actual moon. According to the report, the artificial moon will illuminate an area of 10 to 80 km from its light. If that area is 50 kilometers away, it will be possible to save electricity worth about $ 170 million.
So China will have two fake moons
If this experiment is successful, by 2022, two more artificial moons will be in China. Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics Nix Systems president Wu Chunfeng wrote this. It is not yet clear whether the project will receive support from the Chinese government. So there are many challenges before this project. For example, if the altitude is less than 500 km, it will be an economically successful experiment, but it will be very important to see how successful it is.
Russia has done this too
The idea of an artificial moon is not the first time it has come, but the experiment was successfully performed by Russia. In 1993, Russia made a plastic glass called Zamkaya. The 65-foot jaunakaya displayed a beam of light. Space astronauts at space station Mir also shot beams of light lying on the ground. The beam of light traveled nearly two and a half miles across the Atlantic Ocean, including Russia, within eight minutes. People on earth saw this ray just like a star
