China launches new rocket
The new colonial movement: The Chinese Academy of Science today successfully completed the first launch of Lijian-1, a new four stage solid fueled rocket, placing six satellites into orbit.
The Chinese state press announcement is here. I am using the name of the rocket from this source.
The rocket is an upgrade of a “road-mobile” ICBM, and can place two tons into orbit, making it the largest solid-fueled rocket in China’s arsenal of rockets. It launched from a pad built especially for it at China’s interior Jiuquan spaceport, which means it dumped its first, second, and maybe its third stages on Chinese territory.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
33 SpaceX
25 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
American private enterprise still leads China 46 to 25, and the entire globe combined 46 to 41.
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The new colonial movement: The Chinese Academy of Science today successfully completed the first launch of Lijian-1, a new four stage solid fueled rocket, placing six satellites into orbit.
The Chinese state press announcement is here. I am using the name of the rocket from this source.
The rocket is an upgrade of a “road-mobile” ICBM, and can place two tons into orbit, making it the largest solid-fueled rocket in China’s arsenal of rockets. It launched from a pad built especially for it at China’s interior Jiuquan spaceport, which means it dumped its first, second, and maybe its third stages on Chinese territory.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
33 SpaceX
25 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
American private enterprise still leads China 46 to 25, and the entire globe combined 46 to 41.
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either. IMPORTANT! If you donate enough to get a book, please email me separately to tell me which book you want and the address to mail it to.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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I seem to remember several jokes about the DF Series Road Mobile Missiles…..
Their “Fast Wind” Series that included Carrier Killers and now What Mach 25 birds? (DF-41)
It was the Nineties….
Technology was transfered from American Company(s)….
The Punch lines used…..
“Democrat Fund Raisers”
This site
https://www.daohangpan.com/htm/35338.html
confirms that “‘lijian-1’ is the ‘zhongke-1a’ (zk-1a) carrier rocket, which was developed by Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. and is the solid rocket with the largest carrying capacity in China at present.”
May clear up any confusion about the name of the rocket..
Every time anyone other than SpaceX launches a rocket, it really is a new rocket: had to be built just for that launch, never to return.
Now, where are the Green busybodies decrying the waste of resources this entails? The ‘Green’ rocket tech is well-demonstrated, why no outcry from the usual suspects?
Rhetorical? Maybe. But not really.
This thing is more worrisome than any LM-5 core. Hide in road traffic.