China’s Long March 2C rocket launches three military satellites
China today used its Long March 2C rocket to launch three military reconnaissance satellites into orbit.
The rocket’s first stage uses highly toxic hypergolic fuels, and is expendable. Since it is launched from the interior of China, that stage always crashes on land, sometimes near residential areas. No word on where it crashed today.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
19 SpaceX
18 China
8 Russia
3 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. still leads China 27 to 18 in the national rankings.
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China today used its Long March 2C rocket to launch three military reconnaissance satellites into orbit.
The rocket’s first stage uses highly toxic hypergolic fuels, and is expendable. Since it is launched from the interior of China, that stage always crashes on land, sometimes near residential areas. No word on where it crashed today.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
19 SpaceX
18 China
8 Russia
3 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. still leads China 27 to 18 in the national rankings.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
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.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
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Interesting articles appearing today about Dong Jing Wei, high CCP muckety-muck who apparently defected with “terabytes” of information.
Somewhat ominous is that when I type “Dong Jing Wei” into DDG, nothing relevant comes out, but when I do the same with Google, the articles appear. Sort of the opposite to what I expected to happen.
Andi: DuckDuckGo uses the Bing search algorithms, which means in this case Bing is doing the censoring, not Google.
Both Bing and Google have no problem shadow-banning stories they don’t like. This is why it pays to use both DuckDuckGo (Bing) and Startpage (Google) to get a good spread of news, while maintaining your privacy.
An answer to the question about the booster.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=394358
FYI, Bob, you are the most quoted science correspondent on that site.
Gary: I should be their most quoted science correspondent. They post links to my articles every day, under the label “their intrepid science reporter.”