技术创新是未来空间科学发展的关键因素

Technology innovation is the key to future space science missions

空间科学是我国航天活动中的重要组成部分。尽管其是以科学发现为任务目标的航天计划,但是随着技术的发展和所到即所得类型的任务越来越少,空间科学任务对实现其目标的技术创新度的要求也越来越高。文章首先回顾了自空间科学诞生以来科学研究范式的发展趋势,然后分析了具有技术创新的空间科学任务的培育过程,以及领导这类任务的首席科学家的职责,最后分析和讨论了和空间科学相关的几个重要的技术创新领域。分析表明,在科技竞争越来越激烈的当下,未来空间科学任务能否取得科学突破并得到可持续发展的最为关键性的因素,将存在于任务所采用的获取数据的技术手段是否具有独特创新性,以及能否突破已有的探测地点的限制,创造出自己的第1次。

Space science is one of the important space activities of China together with space technology and space application.Although it is a space program aimed at scientific discovery and breakthrough,with the development of technology and the increasing number of achievements received in the past,space science missions require more and more technological innovation to achieve their goals.This study first reviews the development trend of space science missions since their birth,then analyzes the cultivation process of space science mission proposals with technological innovation and the responsibilities of the chief scientist leading such tasks,and finally analyzes and proposes several important fields of technological innovation related to future space science missions.Analysis shows that with more and more competition in science and technology,the decisive factor to get breakthrough and sustainable development,will exist in whether the mission has unique innovative approach in technology that can help to obtain new data,or whether the mission can still reach a unique site in the solar system,creating their own discovery the first time.