China launches unmanned Tianzhou freighter to its space station
The new colonial movement: In preparation for the arrival of its next three-person crew, China yesterday successfully used its Long March 7 rocket to launch an unmanned Tianzhou freighter to its new space station, docking there seven hours later.
The Long March 7 is a new rocket that launches from China’s Wenchang spaceport on the country’s southern coast. Thus, its expendable stages fall into the ocean, not within China. The rocket also does not use toxic hypergolic fuels, but kerosene and oxygen, so it is less environmental harmful.
The crew will launch to the station on October 13th and will likely spend six months at the station.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
32 China
23 SpaceX
15 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. still leads China 34 to 32 in the national rankings.
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The new colonial movement: In preparation for the arrival of its next three-person crew, China yesterday successfully used its Long March 7 rocket to launch an unmanned Tianzhou freighter to its new space station, docking there seven hours later.
The Long March 7 is a new rocket that launches from China’s Wenchang spaceport on the country’s southern coast. Thus, its expendable stages fall into the ocean, not within China. The rocket also does not use toxic hypergolic fuels, but kerosene and oxygen, so it is less environmental harmful.
The crew will launch to the station on October 13th and will likely spend six months at the station.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
32 China
23 SpaceX
15 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. still leads China 34 to 32 in the national rankings.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
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For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. 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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China’s space program is the crown jewel of the CCP. But the rest of their empire is a house of cards. Centralized economies always collapse. Lately I’m seeing headlines like “Bad loans surge at China’s biggest banks” and “Big Multinational Companies Leave China, Millions of Jobs Disappearing” and wonder how long it will last. The Soviet Union lasted for decades. The problem is America’s leadership is propping up the CCP with trillions of American taxpayers’ dollars. On the other hand China is much more flimsy than the Soviets. They are like Biden on steroids, paying creditors using credit cards and bad checks.
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