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China appears to be trying to save stricken spacecraft from lunar limboThe far side of the moon and distant Earth imaged by the Chang'e-5 T1 mission service module in 2014. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences Destination: distant retrograde orbit Related Surprise Chinese lunar...

How come we know it's sexy? You have blurr1d the main part.

Spacecraft??

So that means one or two tests of post-boosters stage are pending. Two tests of YF-77 individually and a third test of two engines clustered in a stage are due before actual launch. Or there is a different way of operations in China?

Individual engine test? Shouldn't the entire first stage (has two engines) should be tested at once?

Don't think so. US and Russia will be having more space stations in 2024~25 before ISS is down. ISS is a consortium in terms of usage. It's still a combination of American and Russian space stations technically.

Most US embargoes on China related to cooperation and export of space and telecommunication systems were lifted under Clinton's administration after 1996. It included rocket guidance systems, nuclear tech and even MFN status. US since 70s, saw a new tactical ally in China to nullify Soviets and...

I think he's referring to 90s era Laurel satellite scam. Those days, US and China used to be best buddies. US had been trying to slash Japanese economic power (introduced Plaza Accord) and pull down Soviet military superiority (post Sino-Soviet split). A large number of rockets techs were...

It also matters "what you are launching". Small rockets allow swifter launch frequency like Minotaur-I, Start-I, Kuizhaou, Epsilon and SSLV. US, Russia, China and Japan launch a mix of medium and heavy launchers. US and Russia with larger frequency of heavy rockets while PRC and Japan with more...

Like the "ecosystem" of American aerospace, thousands of private space vendors have emerged in India over past 2 decades manufacturing components and India's launch frequency increased. Difference being Indian vendors aren't sophisticated like SpaceX or Blue Origin. AgniKul and Skyroot are yet...

Overall launch frequency capacity had increased to 10 launches per year in 2019 with introduction of SVAB. ISRO had a target for 12-24 launches every year from 2020 but operations were halted after lockdown.

What's the point? He was stating about habit of hiding failures, the issue which doesn't seem to be with India. It is obsolete news anyway, 4 years later in 2014, India had become the cryo country and vehicle has become mature with many launches since then too. "ISRO on cloud nine as India joins...

Table includes orbital launches by each country this year, no matter for whatever purpose; satellite, humans, success or fail.

Won't deny that none of you all is behind anyway in this wanking contest, I'm going to clean up thread now.

@smooth manifold Whatever we can and need to know about Tianlian II satellite series. Could you elaborate??

Just if you could post final launch stats annually.

Shenzhou 12 or a transfer vehicle?

Kindly don't put graphics with mandarin script. It makes it difficult for us to translate through google.

May be you can update it regularly.