Warzone/The Drive: U.S. Confirms China Has Launched What Could Be Its Version Of The X-37B Spaceplane
The reusable experimental spacecraft was launched into space on a secret mission from Inner Mongolia earlier today.
Beijing says it has successfully launched an uncrewed “reusable experimental spacecraft” from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in the Gobi Desert in northwest China. Space-Track.org, a U.S. government online database of public space launches that the U.S. military's Combined Space Operations Center and the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command maintain, confirmed that the "PRC TEST SPACECRAFT" successfully made it into space.
The as-yet-unknown space vehicle was delivered into low Earth orbit atop a Long March 2F carrier rocket on September 4, 2020. The launch was the 14th mission for the Long March 2F rocket and was apparently the result of months of preparations at Jiuquan.
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5 comments:
The US is way behind the major world powers in terms of it's space program. As such, this should hardly surprise us.
If the US feels the need to bevon space, we can continue arrangements with Russia to launch astronauts to the space station. This worked very well and was certainly a better option than our ridiculous DpaceX nonsense. We're looking more and more like a ridiculous cross between Wiley Coyote, Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck.
So far, China has just launched...a satellite. Next step is to recover it nicely and the following one is to reuse it. We shall see.
Inner Mongolia launch site is much tougher to destroy than Cape Canaveral or any coastal pad. USA needs to set up launch sites far from the coasts for survival reasons in time of war.
Umm, B Poster, Whaaaa? No one is even close to the US Space Program, no one.
why come back scotty
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