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To infinity and beyond: After Space Station, China has plans for a kilometer-long mega spaceship
https://www.msn.com/ India ^ | 9/7/2021 | Sujay Bhattacharyya

Posted on 09/06/2021 10:17:49 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

very 92.2 minutes, 400 kilometres in the sky, there is a Chinese Space Station circumnavigating the earth marking Beijing's challenge to US domination of space. Over the last two decades, China has been on an overdrive to catch up with and overtake every other space-faring nation, which has seriously alarmed strategists in Washington.

The annual US national security report, released on April 9, 2021, devoted much space to how China is a threat to the US in space. The report said, Beijing is working to match or exceed US capabilities in space to gain the military, economic, and prestige benefits that Washington has accrued from space leadership.

20 days later, on April 29, China launched Tianhe aboard its massive heavy-lift Long March-5B rocket. Tianhe or 'Harmony of Heavens' is the core module of the space station, Tiangong, that China is building in low earth orbit (LEO) about 400 Kilometres above the surface of the planet.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; ccp; china; elonmusk; mars; science; spaceexploration; spacex


1 posted on 09/06/2021 10:17:50 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19
Oh, it must be made of bamboo and shaped like a chopstick.

2 posted on 09/06/2021 10:29:07 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Oooo. If communists say it, it has to be true. Lolol.

Everything is propaganda to commies.


3 posted on 09/06/2021 10:37:04 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: RomanSoldier19
which has seriously alarmed strategists in Washington.

But not so seriously as to listen to President Trump about out pro-China trade policies or tech transfer policies or educating them in our colleges or letting their killer opioids over the border or punishing them for the worldwide biowarfare attack.

4 posted on 09/06/2021 10:43:07 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Everything our communist China enemy has accomplished and has is because of US money.

Don’t Buy Communist China shiite !!


5 posted on 09/06/2021 10:55:00 PM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo, Roberts to Florence supermax, HerrDoktor FauxiGates to TerreHaute)
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To: RomanSoldier19
It is a good thing the Yamamoto is on patrol to provide balance.


6 posted on 09/06/2021 11:05:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The difference between animals and humans: animals would never let the dumbest of the herd lead them)
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7 posted on 09/06/2021 11:09:23 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: A strike

Not only that, the Clintons sold them a bunch of classified stuff, they have been able to steal a lot of our secrets over many years. It wouldn’t surprise me if they pulled it off. And we keep buying the the rope they’re gonna hang us with.


8 posted on 09/07/2021 12:21:58 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

Yes, you are correct.

Communist China is our ENEMY !


9 posted on 09/07/2021 12:38:05 AM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo, Roberts to Florence supermax, HerrDoktor FauxiGates to TerreHaute)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“I don’t think so, Wong!”


10 posted on 09/07/2021 12:49:39 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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For all we know, it could simply be a kilometer long tether connecting a sensor to a satellite. We did something similar onSTS-75 in February 1996.
11 posted on 09/07/2021 2:53:01 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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Well that should be really special upon re-entry.


12 posted on 09/07/2021 3:57:28 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: RomanSoldier19

I wouldn’t laugh too hard - ever since Bill Clinton’s BFF at Loral (or was it Hughes) taught them ICBM (staging) technology, they’ve been on a roll. If they say they’re going to build a giant space station - they will build a giant space station.


13 posted on 09/07/2021 4:11:34 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Looks unsinkable to me!


14 posted on 09/07/2021 4:28:17 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Tianhe, is that Chinese for titanic?


15 posted on 09/07/2021 4:30:10 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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5 Sept: National Pulse: Lead Scientist For COVID Vaccine Vial Maker Indicted For Stealing Technology For China
by Natalie Winters
Corning’s Wang Ji was indicted on charges of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and unlawful exports. Wang, who worked for the company from 1998 to 2019, was a lead scientist on a Corning project developing optical laser fibers to attack hostile drones, which counted $16 million in funding from the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

He allegedly stole files relevant to the project to set up a business using the same technology in China and was in negotiations with several Chinese Communist Party authorities in the city of Tianjian to set up the company...

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) granted Corning $204 million and the company received another $57 million infusion from the federal government in March of 2021...
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/covid-vaccine-vial-maker-researcher-indicted/


16 posted on 09/07/2021 5:05:06 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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17 posted on 09/07/2021 5:08:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The only paragraph that matches the article title of this CCP fluff piece:

According to the South China Morning Post, the National Natural Science Foundation of China called on scientists to join a five-year project to study the mechanics of an “ultra-large spacecraft spanning kilometres” and that this spacecraft will be “a major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources, exploration of the mysteries of the universe and staying in long-term.”


18 posted on 09/07/2021 5:23:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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