China launches military satellite that will take aim at space junk

https://www.msn.com space.com ^ | 10/27/2021 | Elizabeth Howell

[RomanSoldier19]

China successfully launched a military satellite to test "space debris mitigation technology," according to state media reports.

he satellite, riding on board a Long March 3B rocket, lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 9:27 p.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 23 (0127 GMT or 9:27 a.m. local time Sunday, Oct. 24.)

Footage from China Central Television shows the rocket, backdropped by hills, lifting off amid cloudy conditions at the launch site. The satellite on board is called Shijian-21 and will be "used for the verification of space debris mitigation technology", China state media provider CCTV said in a brief English-language report.

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which is the main contractor for the Chinese space program, added that the launch was a "complete success" as the satellite had achieved its intended orbit, although the report didn't reveal which orbit that was exactly. (A SpaceNews report suggests the satellite was moved to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.)

[RomanSoldier19]

[BBQToadRibs2]

So they can clean up the estimated 150,000 debris particles from their 2007 anti-satellite test?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test

Jackholes.

[blueunicorn6]

“Stick out your can cause here comes the garbage man.”

[AAABEST]

Some say it’s a satellite killer.

[DoughtyOne]

Of course it is.

China reminds me more and more of a James Bond villain these
days. Soros and others do also.

[BBQToadRibs2]

Wouldn’t doubt it in the slightest. China has no ones best interest in mind other than the highest levels of the CCP.

[Tell It Right]

Stuff like this is why the Space Force was formed.

[Yo-Yo]

Space debris mitigation, or space debris creation?

[RomanSoldier19]

[rlmorel]

Steve Bannon refers to the Chinese Communist Party as an International Crime Syndicate.

Spot on.

[NWFree]

That’s right they left a huge mess on purpose still floating around.

[pangaea6]

That’s the official explanation, surely that’s not true

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with that.

I think in the same terms regarding Soros, and the Democrat
party.

[The Westerner]

Were they ever not since 1948?

[DoughtyOne]

Not in my opinion.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

This is why Trump began space force tasked to protect our satellite assets.

[glaseatr]

I'm having doubts about them cleaning up any space junk. I'm betting that this satellite is designed to create MORE space junk.

This time it won't be their satellites making the junk, but ours.

[RomanSoldier19]

[rlmorel]

I think they are part of that same syndicate.

The Bidens most certainly are. The whole treasonous family. They all have dirty hands, especially “The Big Guy”.

[G Larry]

"space debris"

Anything China doesn't want to see in orbit.