China's Space Program News Thread

[ougoah]

Will Russia use a lower latitude launch site or build a new one? Rocket stages will need to be recoverable or aimed at the Pacific otherwise dozens of launches means greater (albeit still minimal) chances of a stage landing in densely populated areas.

Is this all politics and talk or are there plans to actually cooperate on the station and the moon?

 

[escobar]

Will Russia use a lower latitude launch site or build a new one? Rocket stages will need to be recoverable or aimed at the Pacific otherwise dozens of launches means greater (albeit still minimal) chances of a stage landing in densely populated areas.

Is this all politics and talk or are there plans to actually cooperate on the station and the moon?

That seems more aspirational at this point.
The English language ILRS roadmap published by CNSA here :

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[escobar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405166583379529733

 

[Strangelove]

 

[voyager1]

Will they livestream the launch?

 

[Gatekeeper]

Good and informative from CGTN

Historic tour to China's first satellite launch s…:

 

[Helius]

 

[Richard Santos]

Russia is playing a game. If Putin manage to extract a promise from Biden that the US and NATO will respect Russia’s primacy in the former Czarist sphere of influence, Russia will immediately drop collaboration with China in any field that makes the US nervous.

The main question is whether the US can admit to herself that she has been overplaying her hand with respect to Russia during the last 20 years, and her capacity to simultaneously contain both russian and china is weak.

Russia and Putin sees this, and wants to leverage the fact that in the long run Russia’s capacity to reduce American global influence is much less than those of the chinese. So it wants something from the US for not taking China’s side.

 

[taxiya]

Russia is playing a game. If Putin manage to extract a promise from Biden that the US and NATO will respect Russia’s primacy in the former Czarist sphere of influence, Russia will immediately drop collaboration with China in any field that makes the US nervous.

The main question is whether the US can admit to herself that she has been overplaying her hand with respect to Russia during the last 20 years, and her capacity to simultaneously contain both russian and china is weak.

Russia and Putin sees this, and wants to leverage the fact that in the long run Russia’s capacity to reduce American global influence is much less than those of the chinese. So it wants something from the US for not taking China’s side.

This is off topic for this thread, so I will just provide something for you to think.

Why give up something if one can have both? On the other hand if Russia can only get one or the other, why do you think US can offer any better than China? The supposed "Czarist sphere" is only eastern Europe, it is a peanut compared with the possible gain from the whole world by partnering with China. What the US could have offered to Russia might be just like the 80 vials of vaccine to Trinidad and Tobago of 1.4 million people.

 

[taxiya]

A large composite liquid oxygen storage tank has successfully passed engineering verification. The tank has a diameter of 3.35m and is developed by the 805th Institute of the 8th academy of CASC for future carrier rockets. The low temperature test subjected the tank to 110% (designed?) pressure, and it held.

Seems that there are two groups competing for the same thing.

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It says in January 2021, 1st academy has also built a 3.5m composite LO tank.