China’s Long March 3B rocket launches “experimental satellite”
China today successfully used its Long March 3B rocket to launch from an interior spaceport what its state-run press labeled an “experimental satellite.”
No word on where the rocket’s strap-on side boosters or first stage crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
62 China
60 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 84 to 62 in the national rankings, but trails the entire world combined 94 to 84.
This launch cements for China the top spot in launches over SpaceX, since SpaceX only has one more launch planned in 2022, scheduled for just before midnight tonight.
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China today successfully used its Long March 3B rocket to launch from an interior spaceport what its state-run press labeled an “experimental satellite.”
No word on where the rocket’s strap-on side boosters or first stage crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
62 China
60 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 84 to 62 in the national rankings, but trails the entire world combined 94 to 84.
This launch cements for China the top spot in launches over SpaceX, since SpaceX only has one more launch planned in 2022, scheduled for just before midnight tonight.
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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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As expected.
It’s amazing how in one year, we went from China and the USA being neck and neck in launches, to one where SpaceX and China are neck and neck; with the US in a comfortable counting all the non-SpaceX launches.
Remember when The Soviet Union was in Chinas place?
I can not wait for the Chinese Democratic revolution.
That will take an opening of the internet to the Chinese people. And then one good economic disaster.
Maybe next year…
These things always seem years away until they just happen all of a sudden.