China's Space Program News Thread

[Rachmaninov]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363811449361993728

From Henri Kenhmann

The CZ-5B Y2 rocket, which will be used in the launch of the core module of China's 1st Space Station this year, arrived at the Wenchang Space Center today.

(officially the 1st space station since the two Tiangongs were counted as experimental labs)

 

[KYli]

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[MarkD]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363811449361993728

From Henri Kenhmann

The CZ-5B Y2 rocket, which will be used in the launch of the core module of China's 1st Space Station this year, arrived at the Wenchang Space Center today.

(officially the 1st space station since the two Tiangongs were counted as experimental labs)

Due to China Exclusion Act, US is not allowed to cooperate with China in space. This means US will be left without a space station when ISS retires. Serves them right.

 

[jimmyjames30x30]

Well, pardon me my bluntness, but we are all walking the fine line between "bluntly bringing politics into the conversation to annoy everyone else" and "mingling political sentiment into our conversations ever so subtly as to go just under the annoyance radar of everyone else".

You would be a liar without a conscience, or a fool without any self-awareness, if you confidently assert that ALL OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS EVER POSTED in this forum is without even a hint of political thoughts.

Russia, humiliation, blah blah blah, what thread is this? Could you not derail the discussion with your off-topic political nonsense?

 

[AllenMa]

 

[Temstar]

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That's a Long March 9 model next to a Long March 5 right? That's a giant of a rocket.

BTW for everyone's benefit:

大型运载火箭 = heavy lift launch vehicle
重型运载火箭 = super heavy lift launch vehicle

 

[by78]

Well, pardon me my bluntness, but we are all walking the fine line between "bluntly bringing politics into the conversation to annoy everyone else" and "mingling political sentiment into our conversations ever so subtly as to go just under the annoyance radar of everyone else".

Speak for yourself, but not for ALL of us.

You would be a liar without a conscience, or a fool without any self-awareness, if you confidently assert that ALL OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS EVER POSTED in this forum is without even a hint of political thoughts.

I never once asserted that all my posts are free and clear of political content; you did that. In fact, only one post of mine is even remotely political. Feel free to look it up. Hint: It was about New York Times.

PS, I heard you have lots of straws.

End off-topic post.

 

[by78]

Lunar sample container made of artificial crystal and whose dimensions are imbued with meaning. Here's a nice

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of the container.

Height: 38.44cm, which symbolizes the average distance between planet Earth and the moon of 384,400km.
Width: 22.89cm, which symbolizes the mission duration of Chang'e-5 from launch to return.

The hollow sphere containing the sample represents the moon. Toward the base of the container, there is a map of planet Earth. The distance between the hollow sphere and the map is 9.9cm, which is a clever play on an

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.

 

[siegecrossbow]

back on topic!

 

[SciNews]

First peek at Chang’e-5’s lunar samples