If this is true, they’re wasting their money on a heavy lifter.
7 thoughts on “Good News For Those Worried About China In Space”
Their powerpoints are better than our powerpoints. Wait are their powerpoints on Mac or Windows?
Another example of how the optimal solution can be dictated by a few people from above. As with high-speed rail, China will show us the way.
Except that when the way turns into an utter failure (as with Chinese high speed rail), we don’t seem to notice it.
I had already seen all those diagrams at the forum in one of the sites in your link bar a long time ago. I would not put much weight in any of it since the Chinese still need to launch CZ-5 and to put their next generation satellites and space station in orbit before investing in any mammoth rocket. If ever. Considering there are those in the Chinese military which seem to be pushing for a spaceplane and the traditional heavy handed involvement of the PLA in Chinese policy making I would not be surprised if this super heavy lift proposal never got anywhere. Their economy also seems to be cooling down a bit so there is not money to do everything. If they ever did start working on this I would not expect to see it before 20 years from now by which time other factors may have made the project redundant.
From what I have heard Chinese HSR is not being a failure. They have had all sorts of technical issues due to shoddy construction work and lousy signaling software but their highest-speed signalling software which is a totally different design supposedly works fine and they are fixing the broken messes they made. They already stopped doing a lot of regional flights because the airlines stopped having enough passengers to warrant the trip. Most people prefer to use the train. The train is built in China and runs on electricity and the airplanes are bought abroad and use on oil which they scarcely have. I am hardly surprised they chose to invest in such a system.
From what I have heard Chinese HSR is not being a failure. They have had all sorts of technical issues due to shoddy construction work and lousy signaling software but their highest-speed signalling software which is a totally different design supposedly works fine and they are fixing the broken messes they made. They already stopped doing a lot of regional flights because the airlines stopped having enough passengers to warrant the trip. Most people prefer to use the train. The train is built in China and runs on electricity and the airplanes are bought abroad and use on oil which they scarcely have. I am hardly surprised they chose to invest in such a system.
Huh, wonder if they finally imported enough European taxpayers. That seems to be the only way to get HSR to work.
I am just shocked to see pictures of actual Long March 5 hardware after the years of delay. I remember once upon a time when the Chinese claimed they would have LM-5 operational by 2008!
Once the Chinese have LM-5 operational they might reconsider the LM-9. And considering the lengthy gestation of the LM-5, I doubt we would see any LM-9 within the timeline claimed even if the Chinese do press forward.
Why do you think its called ” long march” ?
In other news, China has just made a huge investment in Flubber.
Their powerpoints are better than our powerpoints. Wait are their powerpoints on Mac or Windows?
Another example of how the optimal solution can be dictated by a few people from above. As with high-speed rail, China will show us the way.
Except that when the way turns into an utter failure (as with Chinese high speed rail), we don’t seem to notice it.
I had already seen all those diagrams at the forum in one of the sites in your link bar a long time ago. I would not put much weight in any of it since the Chinese still need to launch CZ-5 and to put their next generation satellites and space station in orbit before investing in any mammoth rocket. If ever. Considering there are those in the Chinese military which seem to be pushing for a spaceplane and the traditional heavy handed involvement of the PLA in Chinese policy making I would not be surprised if this super heavy lift proposal never got anywhere. Their economy also seems to be cooling down a bit so there is not money to do everything. If they ever did start working on this I would not expect to see it before 20 years from now by which time other factors may have made the project redundant.
From what I have heard Chinese HSR is not being a failure. They have had all sorts of technical issues due to shoddy construction work and lousy signaling software but their highest-speed signalling software which is a totally different design supposedly works fine and they are fixing the broken messes they made. They already stopped doing a lot of regional flights because the airlines stopped having enough passengers to warrant the trip. Most people prefer to use the train. The train is built in China and runs on electricity and the airplanes are bought abroad and use on oil which they scarcely have. I am hardly surprised they chose to invest in such a system.
From what I have heard Chinese HSR is not being a failure. They have had all sorts of technical issues due to shoddy construction work and lousy signaling software but their highest-speed signalling software which is a totally different design supposedly works fine and they are fixing the broken messes they made. They already stopped doing a lot of regional flights because the airlines stopped having enough passengers to warrant the trip. Most people prefer to use the train. The train is built in China and runs on electricity and the airplanes are bought abroad and use on oil which they scarcely have. I am hardly surprised they chose to invest in such a system.
Huh, wonder if they finally imported enough European taxpayers. That seems to be the only way to get HSR to work.
I am just shocked to see pictures of actual Long March 5 hardware after the years of delay. I remember once upon a time when the Chinese claimed they would have LM-5 operational by 2008!
Once the Chinese have LM-5 operational they might reconsider the LM-9. And considering the lengthy gestation of the LM-5, I doubt we would see any LM-9 within the timeline claimed even if the Chinese do press forward.
Why do you think its called ” long march” ?
In other news, China has just made a huge investment in Flubber.