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Beijing government releases commercial space action plan (spacenews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

“Cross border technology integration” fancy words for IP Theft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Did they launch a water heater?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not quite. Landspace's Zhuque-3 will be methalox, not hydrolox. The VTVL-1 hopper does bear some resemblance to a hot water heater though...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They're talking about that shitty photoshopped thumbnail image. That rocket, 1.) has no top, and 2.) looks like a residential water heater. And there's no fucking way it launched that close to that building and the building is still in one piece/not on fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's the Zhuque-3 hopper. Like the Falcon 9 Grasshopper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtougIK585o

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Are you saying it needs to be pointy? I think perhaps some of your information about rockets is coming from cartoons.

The buildings are in the background; the rocket hovered at about 350m so they are a long distance from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You're thinking of ARCA space.