China launches military test satellite
The new colonial movement: China yesterday completed its first launch in 2022, using its Long March 2D rocket to launch a military test satellite into orbit.
No word on where the first stage crashed in the interior of China, or whether it used parachutes or grid fins to control its landing.
The 2022 launch race:
2 SpaceX
1 Virgin Orbit
1 China
These numbers should change later today, as SpaceX has a Falcon 9 Starlink launch scheduled. UPDATE: The SpaceX Starlink launch has been delayed one day to tomorrow.
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The new colonial movement: China yesterday completed its first launch in 2022, using its Long March 2D rocket to launch a military test satellite into orbit.
No word on where the first stage crashed in the interior of China, or whether it used parachutes or grid fins to control its landing.
The 2022 launch race:
2 SpaceX
1 Virgin Orbit
1 China
These numbers should change later today, as SpaceX has a Falcon 9 Starlink launch scheduled. UPDATE: The SpaceX Starlink launch has been delayed one day to tomorrow.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I’ve noticed that the US China Space Race is recently receiving attention in mainstream political press. For example:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/31/2022-space-race-china-us-526271
I suggest that we use each Chinese launch as an opportunity to highlight the dangers of a CCP led China.
For more information on the conventional, ideological, and existential threats emanating from the CCP, check out the website of the Committee on the Present Danger: China.
https://presentdangerchina.org/
In addition, we can slow financial flows to China by supporting those politicians that support economic decoupling. Here is an op-Ed by Senate candidate David McCormick:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/americas-leaders-chinas-communist-party-dave-mccormick
Actions speak louder than words.
I hope US private launches accelerate this year making it impossible for China to keep up.
That’s going to be tough for two reasons…China has committed itself to space as a nation where our NASA bills are empty Trojan horses-which leads me to point two-American spaceflight’s real enemy is domestic…ESG Hound is at Parabolic Arc again. Maybe on sue origin’s dime?
He’s going to push too far to where someone just might poison every plover and turtle the via the ‘shoot, shovel and shut up’ method.
So the very thing the Hound of the Muskervilles/Muskovites fears will be done by night for the sake of spite.
All burning ivorys and pelts ever did was INCREASE their demand…with the same bush pilots flying documentary filmakers in also flying out contraband up under those eco-tourist seats. The surest way to see some animal go extinct? “Protect” it.
Bob-you are going on the Space Show tonight-maybe you could explain this to ESG Hound?
China keeps us on our toes, SLS employs Americans-but it is Unabomber Hound who deserves your oil of vitriol the most.
CCP / China, the facade:
https://youtu.be/gTPFdJQlm0k
Remember the ghost cities?