太空之旅還有多遠? 2020年大衆或能上太空過把癮!

Want to have a birthday party 140 kilometers above the ground, or dance weightlessly with your loved one? Just wait for a few years.

想要在距離地面140公里高的地方辦個生日派對，或是與你所愛的人在失重的情況下跳支舞？只要在等幾年就可以了！

A newly established commercial space company in China expects to start providing space journeys for people with enough cash as early as 2020.

我國一家新成立的商業太空公司預計最早於2020年開始爲不差錢的顧客提供太空旅行。

Han Qingping, president of ChinaRocket Co, said the company will develop a 10-ton reusable spacecraft and use it to ferry three to five travelers to a height of 80 km for a new perspective on the mother planet and experience weightlessness.

中國長征火箭公司總裁韓慶平表示，該公司將打造重10噸、可重複使用的飛行器，用其將3-5名旅客送往8萬米的高空，使他們能以全新的視角觀賞地球並體驗失重。

That is the upper part of the mesosphere, higher than jets and balloons can travel, but just below the height where satellites fly.

這個位置是地球大氣層中層的上部，高於飛機和氣球能到達的高度，但略低於衛星飛行的高度。

Tang Yagang, deputy head of CALT's space activity department, said ChinaRocket will offer four types of rockets to the commercial launch market, covering all orbits suitable for commercial space missions.

中國運載火箭技術研究院航天活動部副主任唐亞剛表示，中國長征火箭將會爲商業發射市場提供四種火箭，覆蓋所有適合太空商業任務的軌道。

"Three of the four rockets are off-the-shelf models because they are based on the current Long March series. The two liquid-fueled rockets will launch payloads to sun-synchronous orbit, low Earth orbit and geosynchronous orbit." Tang explained.

唐亞剛解釋道：“在這四種火箭中，有三種是非專門設計的，因爲它們都是基於目前的長征系列。其中用液體燃料推進的兩種火箭將會發射至太陽同步軌道、低軌道和地球同步軌道。”