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.
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 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.