China successfully launches Long March 6A for the first time
China today successfully completed the first launched of its Long March 6A rocket, upgraded significantly from earlier versions of the Long March 6.
The launch also debuted a new launchpad at China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the country’s interior. The two payloads deployed appear to be technology tests, though China provided little information.
The launch of the Long March 6A also sported four solid rocket strap-on boosters. With these and the core first stage all crashing on land in China, there was no word whether any had any technology for controlling their landings.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
11 SpaceX
7 China
4 Russia
2 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 17 to 7 in the national rankings.
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China today successfully completed the first launched of its Long March 6A rocket, upgraded significantly from earlier versions of the Long March 6.
The launch also debuted a new launchpad at China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the country’s interior. The two payloads deployed appear to be technology tests, though China provided little information.
The launch of the Long March 6A also sported four solid rocket strap-on boosters. With these and the core first stage all crashing on land in China, there was no word whether any had any technology for controlling their landings.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
11 SpaceX
7 China
4 Russia
2 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 17 to 7 in the national rankings.
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
Are mercury emissions by rockets and satellites something to be concerned about?
https://www.mercuryconvention.org/sites/default/files/documents/submission_from_government/Norway2_Satellite.pdf
saw this posted on twitter yesterday: https://twitter.com/KevinHBell/status/1508549019785703427
Just thinking that if SpaceX has been or is currently emitting mercury from its satellites, then China might be putting out even more or other harmful substances into the atmosphere.
So this is part of the CZ-6 family of rockets. Reading more, they state that they can put up a payload using this series of rockets at this new launch tower, that is largely automated, in 14 days.
Steve,
I looked at your links and that guy’s twitter. The Starlink satellites use krypton, an inert gas, for propulsion. They do not use mercury.
“… The Starlink satellites use krypton, an inert gas, for propulsion. They do not use mercury. …”
Thanks Jay. I have faith in SpaceX to not pollute the atmosphere. But no such assumption that China would not knowingly do something to damage the people of the world.