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from Tianhe core module
Zhurong and lander used the most elegant technology.ALL "First Tracks on Mars"
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Long March 7 rollout. Launch window May 29 - June 1
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Zhurong rover's twin 1:1 mockup
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Interestingly, China is now the only country to have two functioning extraterrestrial rovers on two different celestial bodies simultaneously.Zhurong and lander used the most elegant technology.
Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity were encased in big balloons to ease crash landing. Curiosity and Perseverance had rocket landers called "Sky Cranes" that lowered down the rover with cables before flying off and blowing themselves up away from the rovers.
Zhurong was lower down by a rocket-propelled lander that hovered and lowered itself and the rover slowly abd safely. The lander (unlike SkyCrane) was saved and used for more missions like taking pictures of the rover!
This stupid numbers game has been laughed at earlier tooInterestingly, China is now the only country to have two functioning extraterrestrial rovers on two different celestial bodies simultaneously.
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pretty sure US dont share tech with China, especially space tech. as for stolen, all NASA core tech are on secure network, even their external network have layer upon layers of firewall. If china able to steal it without US knowledge than their cyber offense is MUCH better than US, which is not true. as for personal income, they are still consider developing nation, around $12k GDP/cap. however, all you need to see is how many chinese tourist/student travel oversea to know their income are raising each year. as for corruption, its widely spread in china, but you might want to check india corruption and compare to china.
also you are contradicting yourself, if you are saying they stole tech that mean they dont need spend that much on R&D space tech, however you also said they spend alot $$ on their pet project Its contradicting
Now i'm not chinese but american, and i'm not fan of CCP. however, you need to recognize they achieve something only US able to achieve. and they are quickly catching up, hence why US consider china as Near peer. i mean you can say whatever word about china, but it doesn't change the facts here.
Here is an example of IP theft by Chinese student:Nope, I was also talking about Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese rocket program who basically stole the technology from the US after being educated there. Also, it is a known fact that Chinese hackers, students and workers have been stealing intellectual property secrets from the US for decades. Speaking of Chinese students, workers and tourists, most of them are funded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and sent to the US to steal intellectual property from US universities, companies, and even government organizations like NASA, so they are basically CCP agents. Overseas Chinese are more loyal to China than to the US even after becoming American citizens, and often spy for the CCP (one example is Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, who was sending data of Zoom users to China). Chinese living in US often take CCP's side, due to them having been brainwashed by CCP propaganda their whole lives.
As far as the money being spent by CCP on its pet projects like space exploration, that is well worth it for CCP because it helps CCP to keep the Chinese people impressed and under CCP control. But that doesn't change the fact that CCP has had to spend much less money on research and development due to CCP spies and hackers stealing intellectual property from the US. Plus there was a time when NASA willingly helped Chinese space program in the name of cooperation with China. Of course all technology being dual use, CCP is weaponizing space now, and it will come back to haunt the US.
Your use of GDP to conclude that Chinese are not poor is wrong. 70 percent of the GDP of China goes to the wealthiest top 10 percent of the people in China, which are mainly the CCP and their families and friends in big cities. The poorer 50 percent of the Chinese population only gets 10 percent of the GDP, and they are dirt poor. Recently Xi Jinping was going around saying that he lifted Chinese people out of poverty, when in fact the standard he used for below poverty was 620 dollars a year, which is a laughable amount of money per year. And even those numbers were fudged up because CCP government officials were getting signatures from people under threat; also 42 dollars a month was given to an entire family of five members which was then changed to 42 dollars per individual on paper. The only difference between Indian and Chinese poor is that the Indian poor are exposed to the world due to free Indian media, while Chinese poverty is hidden from the world through CCP media censorship and CCP policing. But that is necessary for CCP so that CCP can spend all this money on the military and its pet projects in space, while ignoring the poor. CCP bots continuously posting CCP propaganda showing pictures and videos of shiny Chinese cities, big CCP military and CCP space program are only peddling their CCP masters' agenda while hiding the truth about the poverty in China from the world so as to avoid embarassing their CCP masters like Xi Jinping. But by covering up the truth, CCP bots are certainly not helping Chinese poor because you can only fix a problem if you acknowledge it exists. It reminds me of Mao's famine where common Chinese were so scared that they lied that they were producing extra food when they were starving, so Mao exported all this food while tens of millions of Chinese people starved to death.
China Claims It Has Eliminated Poverty But Is That True?China Claims It Has Eliminated Poverty But Is That True?
As state-run media trumpet milestone to burnish President Xi Jinping’s image ahead of the Communist Party’s 100th anniversary in July, many remain in dire circumstances, according to international standardswww.voanews.com
This is not a game. It's a fact.This stupid numbers game has been laughed at earlier too
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Long March 7 first launch window: GMT+8 20:55 29 May 2021
Cool video shows how the robotic arm works on China Space StationRobotic arm of Tianhe core module
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