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
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 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
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.