China’s Long March 3B rocket launches new weather satellite
China early this morning successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit using its Long March 3B rocket.
No word on where the first stage crashed, though we know because the launch was from an interior launch site that it had to have crashed somewhere within China, hopefully not on any village anywhere.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
16 SpaceX
15 China
8 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
2 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 22 to 15 in the national rankings.
This list should change in only a few hours, as SpaceX has a Falcon 9 launch scheduled for 1:29 pm (Eastern), carrying a Dragon cargo freighter to ISS.
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China early this morning successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit using its Long March 3B rocket.
No word on where the first stage crashed, though we know because the launch was from an interior launch site that it had to have crashed somewhere within China, hopefully not on any village anywhere.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
16 SpaceX
15 China
8 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
2 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 22 to 15 in the national rankings.
This list should change in only a few hours, as SpaceX has a Falcon 9 launch scheduled for 1:29 pm (Eastern), carrying a Dragon cargo freighter to ISS.
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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.
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Dual use technology overseen by Chinese Communist Party leads to questions. Wuhan Lab for virus research or lab for bio weapons? Weather satellite or Spy satellite?
Mark–
–> “Bio-weapons and spy-satellites.”
U-2
“Seconds”
https://youtu.be/XSl0W-NsL98
3:10
“Peking must be destroyed.”
“Wuhan go for throttle-up: COVID as virology’s Challenger Moment”
I’ve got the title…Tucker interviewed the Feynman in all this–now for Mr. Z. to write the article to tie it together.
Now for Bill Maher to call for all gain-of-function research to be done on the Moon to force virologists into being space advocates!
HA! If I have learned one thing from marketing-or the left…it is how to distill down a ‘narrative’ into a catch phrase!