Not when the intensity of the radiation is high. If what you said is true then why do they put radiation warnings on aircraft radomes?
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Not when the intensity of the radiation is high. If what you said is true then why do they put radiation warnings on aircraft radomes?
When intensity is high, microwave is still not ionizing. The nature of damage it does is still from the heating, not from altering complex organic molecules in your body by striking it with high energy photons or particles, which would be required to cause radiation sickness or cancer.
The warning on aircraft radomes serves the purpose of keeping people from suffering heating damage, not to keep them from getting cancer. But if people’s unfounded fear of radar causing cancer causes them to avoid being burned by radar, then the sign still served its purpose.
It is the Chinese XS-1.
No. This is an original Chinese launch vehicle. Reusable Rocket with Reusable Spaceplane.
Strictly speaking no and loosely speaking yes.
XS-1 was a program without specific design preferred nor concluded. There are multiple proposals including VTVL and VTHL (from Boeing).
Boeing's proposal named "Phantom Express" is essentially the same as what CNSA just did.
I meant it fulfills a similar role as the XS-1, just like the Shenlong space plane is similar to X-37.
But in the Boeing proposal, they use a rocket to boost the payload into space and orbital insertion.
Didn't the Chinese approach have a Spaceplane riding on it and not just a rocket?
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