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LandSpace: Zhuque-2 Y1 rocket will be launched at JSLC(Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center)'s Launch Site 96 on 3 December. The first batch of Zhuque-2 rocket was produced in two: The first one, Y1 was already standby at Jiuquan. And the second one, Y2's assembly work is being carried out in their assembly plant at the Jiaxing LandSpace Centre. On 16 Oct., they successfully test run the TQ15A engine for the second stage of Zhuque-2 rocket in second batch.

ISRO is actually quite pragmatic and commendable compared to other project agencies in India "Keep on keeping on!"

I found the Cupola-like module's patent which probably will be mounted on the CSS. It has been designed to be a foldable and inflatable module, kind like BEAM + Cupola: "...The porthole provides a large viewing window and serves to improve the living environment of the astronauts and to relieve the psychological stress of the confined space environment; the protective cover on the outside of the porthole can be opened and closed automatically, and when the porthole is not in use, its protective device is closed, insulating most of the space radiation, micrometeorites or debris." ... "A flexible foldable large porthole spacecraft configuration as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said hatch is mounted inside the docking mechanism, which is normally closed and can be opened outwards manually by the astronaut when required, forming a passage of 850mm diameter; the door frame is fitted with a pressure relief and re-pressure assembly and the door is fitted with a counterbalance valve." However, the most exciting part I think is, when I looked at what else the applicant of this patent, the Shanghai Institute of Aerospace Systems Engineering, had applied for, I found something called a "manned lunar rover". Then when I used "manned lunar rover" as keyword to search, here's what I found: A manned lunar rover frame folding mechanism (CN106114631A): A multi-purpose manned lunar rover (CN104108475A): Semi-enclosed split manned lunar rover (CN204452956U): A manned lunar rover (CN111547272A): Any car that can break, will break. So, we need a 'Plan B'. And here's the best one I give it that: "High fold-to-spread ratio emergency return device for manned lunar rover applications" (CN113562196A):

As the Chinese saying goes, it's never afraid that a delicious meal coming too late. So just keep going! Dare to screw something up is one of the most important parts in Kerbel

More photos from the CSS: The lakes of the Tibetan Plateau. Photo taken by Liu Yang. These lakes are close to being pollution-free, as they are sacred in Tibetan culture: they don't even eat fish. And as these lakes are within the uninhabited area of Cocosili, it is somehow safer to see them from space than to visit them like a car expedition: after all, the average altitude here is over 4,000 to 5,000m and ordinary car engines don't always have enough horsepower in such places. The coast of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Photo also taken by Liu Yang The mouth of the Yellow River and the Shandong province in which it is located. This photo taken by Chen Dong. In the bottom right corner is the city of Weifang, the same place where all sorts of strange kites are flying in the sky on a YouTube video. Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, my home. This photo taken by Chen Dong either. Although I still couldn't see it now because of the cloud. The weird purple light spots are caused by the laser focus of the Huawei phone. Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, photo by Cai Xuzhe. The city near the sea is Tianjin, to the left of Tianjin is Beijing and the rest is Hebei province Lake Tai and Yangtze River, also photo by Cai Xuzhe. There is a theory that Lake Tai was formed because of a meteorite. Given that it's only three meters deep, I agree with this idea. (Further reading about this meteorite: Iron-Rich Spherules of Taihu Lake: Origin Hypothesis of TaihuLake Basin in China)

The Co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and father of CNSA, Qian Xuesen said the space shuttle as big as NASA and Roscomos's it's not economically or practically viable. Before Shenzhou came out, there was also a debate on 'Spaceship or Shuttle?' within the scientists in CNSA. However, Qian in the documentary also said that, although the large one is not suitable and not necessarily feasible, a small one isn't impossible. So when the CNSA's technology and everything else was ready, we got the Tengyun But personally, apart from the technical aspects about the FOBS it really can do. I think the shuttle in size of X-37B and Tengyun is a perfect 'space ferry' from the ground to the orbit. If the TBCC and TSTO adequate technical reserves, it would be possible to see the space shuttle becoming a ferry between Earth and space, as we originally envisaged them to be.

If I remember correctly, the little boy Maru in the comic book even fart in the Orlan training suit during the EVA training in the pool. If he knows the ISS is already quite a number of things couldn't find, I bet he definitely would make more pranks hahaha I've been thinking about this a bit more, and I think that getting teenagers into space is an inevitable event in the historical dimension. But it's "future enough": probably everyone on this forum, including me, a twenty-three-year-old college graduate, will not live to see it. Currently, let's say this little buddy who was born to be astronaut and he is capable of doing everything in training and has full approval of the crew. To be a little offensive, the cost of making a special space suit and EVA suit if the mission needed for the kid might not be proportional to the contribution he could bring to space. After all, the title of "first underage astronaut" seems to have nothing more to offer than a certain political connotation and an inspiration for more 'little troublemakers' to tell their parents "I want to be an astronaut too". And I can't imagine how 'lively' the resulting possible moral debate would be.

The upcoming Mengtian module has a airlock for the payload and equipment access. Normally, this airlock chamber appears to be non-pressurized. How those payloads in future get into the airlock? I found an article (but is fully Chinese) and the answer is: Words for top to button are: The payload transfer mechanism pushes into the working chamber The payload transfer mechanism pushes it out of the airlock Diagram of the cargo exiting the Experiment Module II cargo airlock The cargo airlock hatch can allow the payloads to be at least 1.2m wide. Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co.: Tests are being carried out on the 19 new Jilin-1 satellites due to be launched at the end of the year. The highest number of launches on record was 16 satellites on one launch mission carried out by CZ-6 rocket on 10 August. The company's deputy managing director is pictured with the satellite. Patent for a new lunar soil sample sampler/encapsulator: "Scientists believe that there may be some special material in the surface lunar soil at the Moon's south pole where it interacts with the solar wind over time, and to test this idea, multi-point gram-scale sampling of the surface lunar soil at a fixed depth and independent encapsulation of the Moon's south pole is required. However, the sampler of Chang'e-5 cannot achieve functions such as independent encapsulation, so a new type of arm-loaded surface lunar soil sampling encapsulator at constant depth needs to be designed on the basis of the Chang'e-5 end sampler" The Chang'e-5 's sampler was designed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. And this new sampler is from Harbin Institute of Technology.

Friends of my parents brought their young son to our house today. And this little buddy brought a comic book translated from Korean called Space Adventures. I read this set of books when I was his age and they are very well-drawn and educational science comic books. The story is about some kind of cooperation between South Korea and Russia to send a junior high school boy, Maru, and a girl, Soji, to Russia to train with a Russian girl of the same age, Sasha, for the astronaut selection process. They then went through training including basic flight training, weightless flight training, parachute jumping, sea survival training, EVA training and sitting in the back seat of a MiG 25 to critical altitude. As the main character, Maru finally won a place in space and went to ISS as part of the Soyuz crew. So, is it possible and feasible to send minors into space? Frankly speaking, I'm skeptical about the ability of minors to be trained for overload.

To be honest, I can't think of any application scenarios for this thing: Have you guys considered putting this thing up on a hillside and warp it up?

But barring that, I won't refute anything else for now. I just want to make a point: the satellites that are really staring out to sea are not Tianlian but are Yaogan satellites constellation: Guess why these mission patches are blue underneath? Put everything aside, it's strange to use signal relay satellites to keeping eye on the sea and our American friends.

... speechless: Space Force briefing on military space race catches Jeff Bezos’ attention Me:

According to the footage from the CCTV's news, the CZ-2F Y15 rocket which was in emergency rescue backup status transfer to launch readiness for the upcoming Shenzhou-15 mission. After the construction of the space station began, each CZ-2F rocket and Shenzhou spacecraft on launch mission had a backup of its own standby to launch for emergency space rescue. And the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft was ready in Jiuquan before the Shenzhou-14 launch. So currently, the next CZ-2F rocket and Shenzhou spacecraft should have already arrived Jiuquan and begun assembly.

Wait, how about some raptors? Such as owl? They are also unexpected and deadly for sure

And we call our planes sticks (J-10) and chopsticks (J-11)! As for plagiarism in design, let's say there's a guy in class who's a good student who writes all his answers on the board, and instead of looking up you go on to 'reinvent the wheel yourself', that's not 'academic integrity', it's stupidity. "Imitation is the sincerest form of praise"

Ah no offence. This nickname is from folk internet. Not by me or the gov or something else. Man, this nickname has been around for longer than I have been exposed to the internet!

It's pretty weird to call it Puma or Jaguar (the advertising fee is here for the checkout thank you). And something like ‘Nargakurga’ sounds to be a bit off in English. As a snow leopard lover, I'm a little sad that nothing has been nicknamed after it so far.

How about some big cat or heroic figure from a Native American tribe?

Found some details and make some correction: CZ-2F/G's improvements: The one not for launching the manned spaceship's fairing diameter increased from 3.8m to 4.2m Increase in rocket take-off weight from 479.8 to 497 tones (493 tones for the manned version) The payload in NEO was increased from 7.8 to 8.6 tones (8.13 tones for the manned version). The top oval dome of the top tank of the booster was replaced with a conical top to enhance the propellant storage capacity. CZ-2F/G's first mission wasn't Tiangong, but Shenzhou-7, which was launched in September 2008. Since this mission was successfully carried out, the original CZ-2F was no longer used for missions anymore.

oh wow

I'm planning a trip to the Zhuhai Airshow in November to see will CASIC show something new about this little bad boy. Two-hour driving is worth doing that.

Shenzhou 14 crew is busy with inventorying and organizing supplies in the station: Picture via. https://weibo.com/1971177973/MaTjL7Ihx The next move is waiting for the Mengtian Module, put the garbage into Tianzhou-4 and Tianzhou-4 will leave the station. Then waiting for the Tianzhou-5 which will launch around November and Shenzhou-15 crew.

Yeah, that's what I am meaning too. According to my experience travelling in Japan, I can hardly imagine the panic of those five minutes, especially in the cities. Hope for world peace

Don't want to start any arguments but, before considering your own capabilities, you also have to consider what the opposite side is launching: well, you know, something particularly fast with a strange-looking warhead. Question: Do Japanese public spaces such as office buildings and shopping malls with underground parking underneath have designs for emergency air-raid shelters?

Don't know how American pilots call it but I'm sure that the PLAN and PLAAF's pilot will call them 'fatty lightning': this nickname in Chinese was already existing more than a decade hahaha