Chinese company successfully completes 300 meter hop of first stage
The new colonial movement: The Chinese pseudo-company Linkspace has successfully completed a 300 meter hop of the first stage of its new rocket.
Video of the hop can be seen here. The photo to the right is a screen capture from that video showing the rocket being transported to the launch site. Based on this image, the stage appears small, no more than twenty feet tall. I suspect this is only a prototype, comparable in many ways with SpaceX’s Grasshopper, which was a prototype to test vertical landing.
This success however lays the groundwork for building a full scale model.
I call Linkspace a “pseudo-company” in that it might have raised independent investment capital and appears to work as a private company, in China and with rockets there is no such thing. Everything this company does is closely supervised by the government. There is no independence here.
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The new colonial movement: The Chinese pseudo-company Linkspace has successfully completed a 300 meter hop of the first stage of its new rocket.
Video of the hop can be seen here. The photo to the right is a screen capture from that video showing the rocket being transported to the launch site. Based on this image, the stage appears small, no more than twenty feet tall. I suspect this is only a prototype, comparable in many ways with SpaceX’s Grasshopper, which was a prototype to test vertical landing.
This success however lays the groundwork for building a full scale model.
I call Linkspace a “pseudo-company” in that it might have raised independent investment capital and appears to work as a private company, in China and with rockets there is no such thing. Everything this company does is closely supervised by the government. There is no independence here.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Chinese innovation, where did they get the idea that such a thing could be accomplished?
Just one more example of the superior power and the driver of innovation of Communism and Capitalism.
Just gonna drop this here.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/chinese-spieseverywhere-michael-ledeen/
Yawn. Armadillo Aerospace did the same thing 10-15 years ago. Without the full resources of the Chinese Communist Party.
This as we all know is the gold standard:
https://youtu.be/lw3KEg6b6bE
This is why I no longer bad mouth Musk, not that I bad mouthed him so much before.
You can not argue with success, and the Chinese just want it all and will beg borrow or steal, bribe and spy to have it. And we invite them into our country to do so.
And that is counter intuitive in so many ways, but it works. So far anyway.
Meh. Masten, Armadillo and others did something like this years ago with far less means.
Call me when they send it to orbit and get it back.
The speed at which they …”acquire” tech.. I would not expect the Chinese to take long to catch up.
General Douglas MacArthur was absolutely right.