Long March 4C launches Earth observation satellite
China today used its Long March 4C rocket to launch a new Earth observation satellite into orbit.
No word on whether the first stage had parachutes or grid fins to control is crash landing in the Chinese interior.
The 2022 launch race:
3 SpaceX
2 China
1 Virgin Orbit
1 ULA
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China today used its Long March 4C rocket to launch a new Earth observation satellite into orbit.
No word on whether the first stage had parachutes or grid fins to control is crash landing in the Chinese interior.
The 2022 launch race:
3 SpaceX
2 China
1 Virgin Orbit
1 ULA
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.
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So far this number of launches makes for a great start to the 2022 launch year. Two more launches planned this week as well. Love it.
The Chinese Olympic Games are upcoming, so each Chinese launch is an opportunity to highlight the dangers of a CCP led China.
I ask all BehindTheBlackers to consider Boycotting watching the Olympics, and to explain to family and friends why you are personally doing that. Reasons can include the Chinese malfeasance of the Wuhan Lab leak, the Internments and Repression of Uyghurs, and to show the CCP that Americans will not ignore that they having been waging low level war against us.
Also please consider clicking on the below link and making a stand with Petitions and Emails to your political representatives:
https://genocidegames.org/
For more information on the conventional, ideological, and existential threats emanating from the CCP, check out the website of the Committee on the Present Danger: China.
https://presentdangerchina.org/
In addition, we can slow financial flows to China by supporting those politicians that support economic decoupling. Here is an op-Ed by Senate candidate David McCormick:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/americas-leaders-chinas-communist-party-dave-mccormick
I hope you’ll join me in all of the above.
BtB’s Original Mark,
I agree with you. Of course I always boycott the games due to NBC’s terrible coverage.