I think Starship is wildly overrated. The Raptor engine is a great development but Starship has shrunk more than once since initial design and I would not be surprised if it shrank more. The basic design concepts are good though so I am certain the technology will still find uses. Starlink has managed to be deployed fine so far even without Starship. Space manufacturing, well, no one has found that much of use to manufacture in space. Habitats might find some limited use for things like space tourism but it will always be niche, kind of like people who want to visit Mt. Everest. As for rapid cargo deployment, it is just so expensive it makes little sense. It make supersonic aircraft look cheap in comparison. Telescopes are also niche. What I think will be more applicable would be a global low orbit spy satellite network and possibly some sort of modern equivalent of Brilliant Pebbles ABM.
China's Space Program News Thread
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I think Starship is wildly overrated. The Raptor engine is a great development but Starship has shrunk more than once since initial design and I would not be surprised if it shrank more. The basic design concepts are good though so I am certain the technology will still find uses. Starlink has managed to be deployed fine so far even without Starship. Space manufacturing, well, no one has found that much of use to manufacture in space. Habitats might find some limited use for things like space tourism but it will always be niche, kind of like people who want to visit Mt. Everest. As for rapid cargo deployment, it is just so expensive it makes little sense. It make supersonic aircraft look cheap in comparison. Telescopes are also niche. What I think will be more applicable would be a global low orbit spy satellite network and possibly some sort of modern equivalent of Brilliant Pebbles ABM.
This is huge. Can anyone translate it
They could just as easily repurpose it for an orbital laser battle station.
It can be a microwave weapon.
There’s going to be fearmongering articles about this maybe in 2030-40, just like the space station. Would be funny if they are right lol. Just imagine CNSA orienting the solar mirror to the US to set the CNN journalist who wrote the article’s butt on fire lol. A beautiful sight.
There is no law against non-nuclear weapons in orbit. China is well within its rights to install ASAT or anti-missile satellites in space.
This is the meaty part. Can someone do the honor to translate
2025: Single stage engineering implementation - rocket powered, vertical take off, horizontal landing, controllable (something), partly reusable
2030: Two stage engineering implementation - rocket powered, vertical take off, horizontal landing, controllable (something), fully reusable
2035: Complete reusable - combined cycle engine, horizontal take off and landing, single stage to orbit, fully reusable
That is a pipe dream. I have seen proposals like that for at least three decades and I know there were proposals before that.
For example initial US Space Shuttle concept studies before it got the chop to cut costs.
The first concept is somewhat viable the others are vapor.
Just look at how long Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo has been in development.
Rockets are hard enough without adding wings to them.
For example initial US Space Shuttle concept studies before it got the chop to cut costs.
The first concept is somewhat viable the others are vapor.
Just look at how long Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo has been in development.
Rockets are hard enough without adding wings to them.
Thanks!! can you read the red text at the bottom?
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