NASA asteroid camera spots China's Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth

space.com ^ | 24 July 2020 | Meghan Bartels

[BenLurkin]

[freedumb2003]

Getaway craft, eh?

[Reno89519]

Shoooottt ittt dddooowwwnnn1

[Steely Tom]

NASA asteroid camera spots China's Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth

So long.

Tsi jien.

[butlerweave]

Is it going in the right direction ?

[immadashell]

I hope it wasn’t manufactured in Wuhan.

[roadcat]

Is it going in the right direction ?

Imagine the brain power required to know that. It has to go to where Mars will be after traveling for a long time, not aim for where Mars is currently positioned. The Chinese are catching up to our NASA scientists after being decades behind. Besides mapping out the trajectory, the craft also needs to perform correctly and respond to communications from Earth. Makes my head spin thinking about it.

Then again, maybe the Chinese craft is a trick, and will loop back to Earth with an EMP device aimed at us.

[Cold Heart]

“Imagine the brain power required to know that. It has to go where Mars will be after traveling for a long time, not aim where Mars is currently positioned.”

I know, I have the same problem with ducks.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Yogafist]

And then consider the actual distance covered is unbelievably large. As represented by this scale model of the solar system.

https://youtu.be/Kj4524AAZdE

[StormEye]

The Chi-Comms are probably going to contaminate Mars
with the COVID-19 virus then claim the pandemic came from
Mars. Who knows, some stupid people somewhere might
might believe them; like CNN, MSNBC and the Democrats
in the USA.

[Shark24]

It’s amazing that Newton’s laws still are pretty darn good after all these years. :)

[Redwood71]

They are using a modified MIRV.

In a MIRV, the main rocket motor (or booster) pushes a “bus” into a free-flight suborbital ballistic flight path. ... It takes up a ballistic trajectory that will deliver a reentry vehicle containing a warhead to a target, and then releases a warhead on that trajectory. It is simple science to use the trajectory needs in an opposite direction to hit a spot in space.

The MIRV was given to China in 1996/7 by Bill Clinton of which he caused great harm to the security of the nation. All three of the companies that were investigated and were caught were Lockheed, Loral, and Hughes. All settled with the government by paying multi million dollar fines. Clinton was also fined.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/98-485.html

ON May 11, 1999 - President Clinton said in a letter to Congress that the transfer would not harm national security or significantly improve China’s military. That was a flat lie. The major intent of the MIRV was to sight ICBM’s. Wouldn’t improve the military?

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-technology-transfer-to-china.html

Difficult? Just a few calculations and the program does it for you. Thanks Bill. And North Korea has it now and with the assistance of copied Russian ICBM’s, jointly developed with the Russians at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, the Hwasong-14. they can now target US soil. Course the enrichment programs and supercomputers were given to North Korea in 1995/6 through the department of Commerce. That’s part of what got Sec Ron Brown murdered when he told the Clintons he was going public about the supercomputer transfers through his department while in Germany. They immediately changed the computers from, industrial grade enrichment capacity to weapons grade. And that’s where the standoff sits today, a nut over there with his finger on the button to take out Hawaii or part of the left coast of the CONUS.

Like I said, thanks Bill. Oh, and if you can still find it, the autopsy on Brown indicated he was killed by a strike to the back of the head with a weapon either a gun shot or a drill. Those pictures were removed from the files and the cause of death changed. Strange?

rwood

[Trueblackman]

Was Hillary’s Server onboard? Just asking for a friend.

[CJ Wolf]

No but they are searching for more food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9YV-4ezrvI

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fmdj.

[goldbux]

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[roadcat]

ON May 11, 1999 - President Clinton said in a letter to Congress that the transfer would not harm national security or significantly improve China’s military. That was a flat lie.

Thanks for the good read - Clinton really screwed us with his China dealings (including opening their path to take over medical supplies to where we're dependent on China).

[roadcat]

It’s amazing that Newton’s laws still are pretty darn good after all these years.

Yes, those space engineers know how to use them, but not so much me or the Chinese (until they copied our tech)!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#2. Re “Getaway craft, eh?” Unfortunately it wasn’t carrying defectors from Red China.

It was the latest version of Chinese carry-out on steroids. “Mars Needs Won-Tons”.