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China's Space Program Thread II
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Yeah this is the one thing I really disliked in their press release/post. Their 300-ton claim is the only one that stands. The rest, I counted three others, are not true.
Also some news I found:
A container free materials cabinet pushed a tungsten alloy to above 3100 degrees Celsius in a new world record. In Earth's gravity, when tungsten or niobium metals are heated, they do not form in a very observable pattern. In microgravity, though, they form into a spherical shape (described in the article as an elixir), and using forces generated by an electrostatic field, the cabinet can cradle the metal and hold it suspended in mid-air. This is why they call it containerless. This should allow Chinese astronauts to study the properties that could potentially survive atmospheric re-entry better.
Prior to the meeting, on-site inspections were carried out through the commercial liquid-rocket propulsion test base, the satellite data industrial park, and the Research Institute. Meeting seems to have gone well and suggestions and opinions were offered about the future direction of the spaceport.
The Dongfang Spaceport, a mobile intelligent ship that has been called the world's first "all-sea-area mobile launch-and-recovery" vessel, was the test platform. Weather conditions were poor during this campaign, however they still managed to launch all six rockets, starting at 3:23 AM and ending at 6:40 AM, with the average interval between launches being under 35 minutes, the lowest being just 19 minutes. Throughout the launch window, positioning was kept within 1 meter and the platform attitude was kept within 0.23 degrees, highly precise.
(If anyone wants I can try posting these types of news daily or every other day)
