China's Space Program Thread II

[tiancai8888]

The photo that you refered to as "tested engine" is new here, will you share the original source of it?

Via CASC's official wechat video account. The video could only be shared inside wechat environment, So I can't provide the link to the site.

 

[bebops]

While the US remains the pre-eminent space power, China has set out its space ambitions and has been hitting its targets consistently to achieve its goal of being the leading global space power by 2045. But besides China and the US, there is a third actor whose power is increasing – New Space (the increasing commercialisation of the domain).

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Besides the starlink sat, China is on course to surpass US in ISR sat pretty soon.

 

[by78]

The government of Beijing has

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. The park is located in the Fengtai district of the capital. It is expected to become home to more than 100 private enterprises and suppliers by 2028.

 

[Maikeru]

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[Maikeru]

Launches from Xicheng are always the most exciting!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1804542638034661522

 

[Dante80]

Yeahhh....that's not good.

 

[tacoburger]

I thought that villages in the expected drop zone range were evacuated before hand? Or that this inland boosters were using parachutes or grid fins to control their landings?

 

[by78]

According to Mr. Bu Xiangwei (布向伟), co-CEO of OrienSpace, the Gravity-2 launch vehicle is in active design phase. It's on track for maiden launch by the end of 2025 to early 2026. Commercial reusability will be achieved in 2029, with an initial launch cost of ¥20,000/kg. Mr. Bu expects launch cost will be further reduced to less than ¥10,000/kg after production optimizations and scale-up.

 

[by78]

Some images from the launch of Sino-French Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), which used a Long March 2C rocket. This marked the 525th flight of the Long March series.

This launch also included a second payload: CATCH-1 science micro-satellite, which will be used to verify technologies and systems for observational astronomy.

 

[by78]

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on future cis-lunar data and services infrastructure, which will provide communication services between Moon and Earth, lunar orbit determination and navigation services, and support for deep space exploration, among other things.