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One more thing I got feeling quite uncomfortable: why those rubbish press always using the picture from CZ-5/CZ-5B, or CZ-7 rockets launch missions? They are on the mission of absolute peaceful: building our space station. If they could even learn how to use this two pictures, I wouldn't say anything on it. Hell, isn't that a lot more "violent" than the pictures they gave?

Maybe I'm too nationalistic, they give me the impression that "How can you Chinese do what my world-leading American technology can't do? You must be cheating or copying or lying!" Save it, even the North Koreans claim to have done it (although I have reservations about this given the current level of wind tunnel and materials science technology in North Korea, perhaps with the help of their "blood allies", which is us)

CZ-4B successfully launches the third "Goafen-11" satellite at 20th November, 9:01 (UTC/GMT +8:00). This is the third launch of the Gaofen-11 series of satellites by the CZ-4B rocket and the 397th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles. Well that's just normal news but when I search CZ-4B rocket I find something interesting: and The one of the rudders that Y41 mission was recyeled from the Y38 mission. "That thing, although small, but it was the first reusable product on a rocket for a domestic launch vehicle in China, and it is an important attempt for subsequent vertical take-off and landing reusable launch vehicles.", said by SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, the Eighth Institute) , "it can active control the stage one's attitude and landing zone position of the return section, achieving a reduction in the landing zone of more than 85%." Ha, Musk, one of your competitor was born

China's largest solid-propellant lauch vehicle, Lijian-1 (力箭，power arrow) successfully completed the ground launch support system test in a joint rocket-ground exercise. The Lijian-1 is the "Zhongke-1 A" (ZK-1A) launch vehicle, developed by Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co. It is a four-stage solid launch vehicle, the unassisted configuration of the ZK-1A series, derived from the basic ZK-1A. The core stages are equipped with 200-ton, 100-ton, 50-ton and 10-ton solid rocket motors, respectively. The take-off weight of the rocket is 135 tons, its LEO capacity is about 2 tons, and its 700km SSO capacity is 1.33 tons, making it China's largest solid launch vehicle in terms of take-off mass. This type of rocket is mainly used for one rocket launch multi-satellities missions combination launches of small and medium-sized spacecraft in sun-synchronous orbit and other near-Earth orbits, and is scheduled for a "one rocket, six satellities" first launch in March 2022. 500t thrust solid fuel rocket! HURRY UP! (I was read this news few days ago but one of my assessment due dealine last week. This happened at 13th November) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbKv-5cbWEY

I went back and re-examined it, and according to official statements, space and radio enthusiast forums within China, and discussions outside of China, the Yutu rover is probably the equivalent of an "amputated limb" after 2014, but is still "able to speak, see and write", and even supports the scientists who wrote this paper: Correlated compositional and mineralogical investigations at the Chang'e-3 landing site. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9880?origin=ppub Made in China has only two extremes for the Chinese: too poor quality and too good quality. And I think Yutu is the too good one. Even though, the damage to the travel mechanism was actually a good thing: it exposed some design flaw that wasn't expected on the ground and gave Yutu II room for improvement. Don't forget that Yutu II, which started work on 3 January 2019, is still running on the Moon! There is no refutation of the word "euphemism" because in the Chinese context we use the word "failure（失败）" unless the rocket exploded in the air, otherwise we use the word "loss of edge（失利）" for news such as the Long March 5's second launch premature shutdown of the core stage one and forcing the second stage to start prematurely, or "the US military satellite failed to successfully enter its intended orbit", or "NASA announces findings of Boeing's Starliner test flight failure" : a failure, but not a complete failure, more or less it still have a hope to be better.

Who make NASA care about Chinese astronaut except of Chinese themselves? Russian Do some google, converting to the easily calculable time zone 0 is 20:35 14th Dec. 2013, you can "add East and subtract West" from your own location, using time zone 0 as a base. It's 7 years 10 mouths 4 days, 19 hours and 18 minutes to now, 14:50, 19th Nov. 2021 (GMT) But yes, Chinese satellites using Chinese time zones is something that has no controversial value. Technically 5 more days to go before Apollo 12's record is broken. I have a feeling we're ahead of some news this time Stopped moving in 2014 due to failure of the travel mechanism, but other components are still intact and the official word given is that it stopped working on 31 July 2016. I can't understand how it make it either

Comments on related videos within China： - Yes it must be a wind power station - Yeah it could even be a water facility

*Mad Max like this*

Space snooker

It's really sad that BBC only report the giant aircraft carrier target we built at middle of desert, and pretend the first Chinese, or even the first Asian female astronaut finished a 6 and half hours EVA mission never happened. The world shouldn't be like this

Well that's the reason why I said the CASIC is the "don't ask question" part: "China Builds Missile Targets Shaped Like U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers in Remote Desert" https://news.usni.org/2021/11/07/china-builds-missile-targets-shaped-like-u-s-aircraft-carrier-destroyers-in-remote-desert Hell, I really can't imagine how crazy it is as such a big things runing at the bone dry desrt with 30 knots, and the missile from nowhere hit it at Mach seven or eight or even more. Sailing on the land, ha, "Cedden didden" start to play in my brain

There is a Chinese song with the lyrics "Keep it simple, keep it simple in the way you talk". I think astronauts is definitely ok

Well if we need to be more specific on it I really do google it: The Chinese term "astronaut" comes from Qian Xuesen's definition. [航空, Hangkong, aviation]: in the atmosphere. [航天, Hangtian, Space]: outside the atmosphere to within the solar system. [宇航, Yuhang, Astronautics]: Outside the solar system. Seems CNSA don’t have technology to travel outside the solar system yet, so we using the “Hang tian yuan” to call our astronauts.

If guys discuss it by English I think there will be the astronauts, and if using the Chinese it will be the “hang tian yuan”, either the official or the normal people. I think probably is from the Taiwan and Hongkong people will use “spaceman” more often to called the astronaut because I can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese. They both use Chinese characters, but the language is not quite organized in the same way. Of course, there are probably other more extreme nationalists than myself who would use the term "taikonaut" emphatically.

Well my thought is not "saying China's something good", just a very simple desire to have someone who could have such a "little achievement" like game. Pure and simple. And the consensus with CNSA and ESA I think will be "don't waste the opportunity on this" if this can really come true. And both Mengtian and Wentian modules are already confirmed to carry ESA's collaborative experimental payload, so imagine what kind of collaborative experiments they will have. The English media called Chinese astronaut as "taikonaut". But actually we don't call them "spaceman" if the"taikonaut" translate directly to Chinese (at least most of the Chinese space fan I've seen don't do that). We also called them "astronauts" or "hang tian yuan (航天员)". And personally, I don't really totally understand why called the Chinese astronauts as "taikonaut" either.

It looks like CNSA will be really busy from next year: launch two more new module to the space station, and the multiple cargo and 4 manned spacecraft associated with it (they've already got the crew selected); the Chang'e 6, 7 and 8 which will go to the moon's south pole and it also will be cooperated with ESA (or Roscosmos maybe?); the space telescope to be launched the year after next to operate in co-orbit with the space station; and plenty of "daily launch mission" for the high resolution mapping satellities, communication satellites and other "don't ask question" satellites that no one would know. And Mars mission? I can't quite imagine how busy they are anymore. Personally I really looking forward CNSA can cooperate with ESA and send Samantha Cristoforetti into the Tianhe space station: she will be the first person that can evaluate the spaceship from Russia, US and China Watched a video simulate the Chang'e 7 by KSP, Chang'e 7 is indeed a collaboration with Roscosmos and has a really complex payload https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rK411N7RS https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv7378914?spm_id_from=333.788.b_636f6d6d656e74.4

I had previously read an article by a CNSC engineer who manually trimmed the burr on a solid fuel pillar, "A little static electricity is enough to blow the whole plant sky high", said by the article.

Same, I have no problem on what RCS use. Only for the poison rocket itself. I will always love hydrongen-oxygen engines + solid fuel engines!

News: Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping, dressed in China's new generation of "Feitian" (flying in the sky,飞天) EVA suits, make a continuous exit from the node module of the space station. After the installation of the foot restraint and the extra-vehicular workstation on the arm, the two crew members will work with each other to install the arm's suspension and adapters (this is for the small arm that will be carried through the new experimental module in a few months), test typical extra-vehicular manoeuvres and validate the extra-vehicular mutual aid rescue with the support of the arm. Zhai Zhigang was the first Chinese astronaut to complete an EVA mission 13 years ago. And Wang Yaping was the first female astronaut to complete an EVA mission from China. Fun things: 13 years ago Zhai Zhigang's first words when he left the airlock were: I'm 01, I'm out of the capsule, and I feeling good! (我是01，我已出舱，感觉良好！) 13 years later, he repeated it again. Then Wang Yaping, who is still in the airlock/node module: I'm 02, I‘ll out later and I feeling good! (我是02，我一会儿出舱，感觉良好！) Core module says: I'm 03, I will out next, and I feeling good! (我是03，我下次出舱，感觉良好！) I think Wang Yaping's favourite phrase is "Don't rush, don't rush!". After arriving at the station, Zhai Zhigang: "Well, I think it's done, let's report to the ground, shall we?" , Wang Yaping: "Don't rush! Don't rush!" As they ready to open the core module hatch, she also repeats, "Don't rush! Don't rush!" Cartherine Coleman: When you look out the window, you see the stars and the Earth. Billions of women are looking out the window with you, including me. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238342.shtml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WO0JjcZPyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dEbQWtPfPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwofAqALnQ http://www.news.cn/2021-11/07/c_1128041048.htm https://china.huanqiu.com/article/45UVsEEkcIZ

News from fews second ago: China successfully lauched the Yaogan (Remote Sensing) 35 A,B,C satellites into the orbit by CZ-2D rocket at Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. http://www.news.cn/politics/2021-11/06/c_1128037576.htm CZ-4A - third stage = CZ-2D Although I really like the "Proton" rockets, but still, I hope that everyone, including China, will phase out N2O4/UDMH fuel-powered rockets as soon as possible

News: Shenzhou 13 astronaut crew's first spacewalk mission will be opportunistically carried out in the near future. It doesn't say what the mission will be, but there should be live internet and TV coverage. http://finance.people.com.cn/n1/2021/1105/c1004-32274837.html (Near future for CNSA = no more than 5 days)

I heard an interesting story from a Chinese talk show about the need to keep the rocket launch site clear of radio sources before the launch. Every time it was cleaned up but after a while after each launch there were unknown radio sources again. Once, it was even discovered that some one had disguised their equipment as bricks from the old Great Wall and had disguised their radio antennae as old wires wrapped around trees. The staff went back and forth looking for it but could not find it, and then found this wire. After pulling it down, they found a change in the signal source and followed the wire all the way to find this "brick" tucked into the wall of the old Great Wall

They also have a lot of different units represented by various numbers. To be honest I can't tell the difference: there are just too many. Here are the main research and production consortia that I found on the Chinese Internet The First Institute of Aerospace (China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology) The Fourth Academy of Spaceflight (Academy of Space Power Technology) for the development and production of space solid fuel engines for experiments The Fifth Academy of Space Technology (China Academy of Space Technology) for the development and production of satellites, spacecraft, space stations, lunar exploration vehicles and other spacecraft Sixth Institute of Aerospace (Institute of Aerospace Propulsion Technology) for aerospace liquid-fuel engine development and production experiments Seventh Institute of Aerospace (Sichuan Institute of Aerospace Technology) missile development and production assembly The Eighth Institute of Aerospace (Shanghai Academy of Space Technology) for research on tactical missiles, launch vehicles, human spaceflight, deep space exploration and other space technologies The Ninth Academy of Astronautics (Institute of Spaceflight Electronics Technology/Aerospace Times Electronics Corporation) for inertial navigation, telemetry and remote control, aerospace electronics, and several other specialized institutions The Tenth Academy of Astronautics (Institute of Aerospace Navigation Technology) The 11th Academy of Astronautics (China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamic Technology) The 12th Academy of Aerospace (China Academy of Aerospace Systems Science and Engineering) The second and third insitute I can't figure what they focus on. Both of them belong to CASIC. Instead of the above belongs to CNSC. I think it's the "don't ask questions" part because it involves the military. https://www.zhihu.com/question/21625027 (No need to worry about my personal safety, all that can be found by me is open source information and I am not in China)

Never forget the missile tech is always connected to the rocket tech. It's same that all over the world. CNSA (国家航天局): China National Space Adminstration. As the manager, coordinating the orderly development of the domestic aerospace industry. Which can decide paint the missile viecle they use white or not . CASIC(中国航天科工集团): China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation. The products are relatively small, but the production batches are large, the main products are tactical missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft and anti-missile missiles and other products. The guy who responsible for light somebody up. CNSC(中国航天科技集团): China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation. Larger products produced, but smaller batches. The main products are the commonly seen launch vehicles, satellites, probes of all kinds, manned spacecraft and medium and long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles. The guy who responsible for send somebody in to the orbit. PLA: They are responsible for guarding launch sites, research facilities and recruiting astronauts from the PLAAF, also responsible for searh & rescue mission for astronauts returning to Earth. And most important part, use the missile. PLARF: What? Don't look at me! I'm the customer!

Speaking of solid fuel, insert a news from last week: CNSC's 3.5m/500t thrust class solid fuel engine test run successfully in Xi'an. And if I understand the official statement correctly, it will be the booster for the CZ-6A rocket. Or maybe something bigger because 500t thrust is really something. https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/423218643 http://english.www.gov.cn/news/topnews/202110/20/content_WS616f6f83c6d0df57f98e38a7.html (As a solid fuel fan, I think I'm high now)