China's Space Program News Thread

[no_name]

Physically and mentally weak. I think that's why Mao was advocating the idea of continuous revolution, to make sure people don't slack off over time.
But yeah end of off topic for me.

 

[discspinner]

bad times create good men
good men create good times
good times create bad men
bad men create bad times

Xi is trying to prolong the current crop of good folks with his emphasis on Red education. Hopefully this will carry China to where it wants to be, which I'm sure it will reach in the next 50 years.

actually this is not true... cough India cough

 

[ansy1968]

bad times create good men
good men create good times
good times create bad men
bad men create bad times

Xi is trying to prolong the current crop of good folks with his emphasis on Red education. Hopefully this will carry China to where it wants to be, which I'm sure it will reach in the next 50 years.

@discspinner Bro from Mulan " Flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all" so Xi mission let a thousand flowers bloom.

 

[PeregrineFalcon]

CPC needs to intervene and do something about that.

The West shows the final stage of what happens when the situation is allowed to fester. Basically, the situation created a culture that ignore facts and science while rewarding natural influencers. Those influencers ended up getting to positions of power, getting by without ever having to listen to others and spreading lies. At some point, shit hits the fan, then engineers and scientists are thrown under the bus with full approval from society.

Well said though I sometimes wonder if the CPC is able to take note of so many things that has to be paid attention to and not allowed to fester. Do they have enough manpower, foresight, wisdom, expertise, leaders etc?

 

[plawolf]

Would SSPS be considered dual-use technology? Surely if you could focus a gigawatt of microwave power into a small area the size of a receiver dish you could also focus that energy to other places for battlefield use?

Perhaps just the thought of it would scare the US enough to force them into a space race in this aspect?

Well if you really really wanted to, you can weaponise just about anything. Lego? Those things seem perfect for land mines, as anyone who has trod on one can attest to.

Or just stuff them in shotgun shells, I kid you not!

But considering the fact that SSPS needs to be geo-stationary to beam energy to its intended receiver dish, it could only be weaponised to target things in or close to China. If China wants to re-orbit the thing to fly to the other side of the planet to target the US, that would be slow, easy to detect and the US could easily shoot it down long before it was in range to zap anything of value.

 

[escobar]

From GT: The spacecraft, which was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu Province, landed at an airport in Alxa Right Banner in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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the administration only said, kind of proudly, "This is too advanced to be put on display."

Is this a kind of joke

 

[Red tsunami]

Is this a kind of joke

This is indeed a joke made by the media, and of course the lack of pictures is for confidentiality.

 

[tiancai8888]

This is indeed a joke made by the media, and of course the lack of pictures is for confidentiality.

The joke first coming from the public Chinese spaceflight watchers complaining lack of pics. The joke mainly a local things, It's ok inside China. It's a silly thing for GT to said it to the west. IMO

 

[Xizor]

Honestly though. I've been keeping silent waiting for some clarity on the nature of this TSTO flight. It's still not clear what kind of TSTO is used.

1. A Rocket 1st stage + Spaceplane 2nd ( China has sent a secret RV earlier)

2. A Rocket with wings piggybacked by a Spaceplane ( Rocket glides down, Spaceplane glides down after doing space/near space things). [This seems to have happened on July 2021? ]

3. A CC Engine Aircraft piggybacked by a Spaceplane.

4. An aircraft with CC Engines SSTO (The pinnacle).

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[siegecrossbow]

Honestly though. I've been keeping silent waiting for some clarity on the nature of this TSTO flight. It's still not clear what kind of TSTO is used.

1. A Rocket 1st stage + Spaceplane 2nd ( China has sent a secret RV earlier)

2. A Rocket with wings piggybacked by a Spaceplane ( Rocket glides down, Spaceplane glides down after doing space/near space things). [This seems to have happened on July 2021? ]

3. A CC Engine Aircraft piggybacked by a Spaceplane.

4. An aircraft with CC Engines SSTO (The pinnacle).
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My opinion is that it is a space plane that takes off vertically but lands horizontally but may have additional rocket boosters attached that are non-recoverable. It doesn’t make sense to make a sub-orbital space plane that follows scheme one when they’ve actually tested an orbital variant of the same scheme last year.