China launches new crew to its space station
China today successfully launched a new three-person crew to its Tiangong-3 space station, its Long March 2F rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China.
No word on where the rocket’s side boosters or lower stages, using toxic hypergolic fuel, crashed inside China. The crew will dock with the station mid-day tomorrow.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
105 SpaceX
49 China
11 Russia
11 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 122 to 72, while SpaceX by itself still leads the entire world, including American companies, 105 to 89.
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China today successfully launched a new three-person crew to its Tiangong-3 space station, its Long March 2F rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China.
No word on where the rocket’s side boosters or lower stages, using toxic hypergolic fuel, crashed inside China. The crew will dock with the station mid-day tomorrow.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
105 SpaceX
49 China
11 Russia
11 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 122 to 72, while SpaceX by itself still leads the entire world, including American companies, 105 to 89.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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China successfully launched a new crew to its Tiangong-3 space station on October 29, 2024, from the Jiuquan spaceport. With 49 launches this year, China remains a strong contender in the 2024 launch race, though American private companies, led by SpaceX with 105 launches, still maintain a significant lead globally.
seeinsta noted:
” . . .With 49 launches this year, China . . .”
” . . . SpaceX with 105 launches . . .”
It’s called, getting lapped.