China's Space Program Thread II
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China's space program seems to be able to do everything right except actually launching.
(Xinhua's reporting on Zhongxin-9A)
Depending on where SJ-32 is currently, its health and whether it has separated from the third stage, it may still be possible to recover this thing. ZX-9A was launched on 6/19/17 and reached GEO on 07/09/17 using its thrusters at the cost of 10 years of lifespan. As I understand, the most recent SJ satellites use a high performance bipropellent engine with increased prop reserves.
This is a joke right ? Lol or are you intentionally rage baiting?
I don't know man, they seem pretty successful IMO, I had to go closer to the screen to see the failures "in red".
2025 was the best year ever In the Chinese Space program
the Bar is only high for China rest people don't care.. USA has the highest rate of crash and failure of military aircrafts , helicopters in last two years but people don't give a shit and just ignore as nothing happened.
2026 started with high launching frequency as compared to 2025. so we are on track for 110-120 launch in 2026 if everything goes well. maybe more than that if they really push in later half of this year.
Yes, is an interesting observation, that bar for success in China is way higher than most countries in the world. Other countries can be mediocre as hell and still don't face same level criticism, no even from their own citizens. China could be the second country with an EUV machine, as good as ASML and still, even people inside China will say that the country is still 20 years behind the rest of the world for some reason. Like parents that push their son to excel and tell him that he will never good enough but they praise the cousin who is at best mediocre as hell.
But it could be a positive mentality, sometimes you have downplay your successes and meditate over your setbacks to avoid complacency and move forward
But it could be a positive mentality, sometimes you have downplay your successes and meditate over your setbacks to avoid complacency and move forward
Nevertheless, they missed it by pouring resources on multiple versions of specialized rockets instead of scaling up a cheap rocket. Its more than a decade since YF 100 began flying. SpaceX went from Merlin to Raptor v3 but, they are still trying to scale the production up. I fear, it will be obsolete by the commercial cheap 3D printed engines in a year. Too much of fragmentation instead of scaling up.
Can someone delete these two posts I made like I said before since I can’t?
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You seem to get everything right on this forum except actually posting.