China's Space Program Thread II
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Surprised that only Galactic energy launches regularly its solid rocket among all private space companies in China. The private players have been abit of a dissapointment to be honest. I thought that by 2025 after 11 years of china opening up space industry to private players that there will be a couple of them launching at least this types of small rockets with small satellites very regularly and casually by now. I'm surprised only galactic energy has been the only one capable and willing to regularly launch such rockets. Hopefully their transition to heavier rockets and payloads with their Pallas series will be smoother than her competitiors.A Ceres-1 rocket successfully launched three satellites into space: Kaiyun-1, Yuxing-03 08, and Yunyao-1 27. This was the 21th flight of the Ceres-1 launch vehicle.
They are doing ok. I just question the need for this many of them. So many people doing launchers and comparatively few doing satellites. I hope they won't have a dozen or half a dozen of these companies doing superheavies down the line.
The Energia and Apollo helped bankrupt the Soviet Union and the US.
The Energia and Apollo helped bankrupt the Soviet Union and the US.
My speculation was that the satellites are likely part of a constellation of China, they are made by Sputnix for Chinese customers, so they are not really Russian domestic. My thought is based on the fact that these satellites are small satellites for broadband, Russia is good in making the platform but not in digital chips in baseband, nor miniturized radio chips and TR modules in things like 5G base stations where China is the world leader. So it is a cooperation that put Russian expertise in good use. Since the final (program) owner is Chinese one, choosing a Chinese launch provider has nothing to do with Roscosmos' launch capability or price.
Regulation of exporting Russian space product to China should have been established long ago. There were multiple occations in the past decade that Sino-Russo space cooperation were highlighted in joint statemens/summit between the presidents.
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oh boy, China is going to test its planetary/asteroid defense against a small satellite
I wonder how big are the instrument here. Can this be re-usable against the asteroids produced by SpaceX?
They are going to get close and collide into it.....
I wonder how big are the instrument here. Can this be re-usable against the asteroids produced by SpaceX?