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Airborne: Reborn X is out with the most important #NewAerospace news from the last week https://osinto.substack.com/p/airborne-reborn-x
Our Top Story is about a flurry of #space activity in #China over the past week. The government launched what was widely believed to be a reusable #spaceplane - similar to the @usairforce’s #X37B. Here’s a great thread on the mission... https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1303770864232599552
...and an excellent primer on the #X37B from @thedrive - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30699/here-what-we-know-the-shadowy-x-37b-was-up-to-during-its-record-720-days-in-space
Landspace closed a $175m funding round from investors incl. the Chinese State and @sequoia. It’ll see them launch the Zhuque-2 in 2021 - planned 1st stage landings + reusability come later.
See this excellent piece by @AJ_FI on @SpaceNews_Inc:
- https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-raises-175-million-for-zhuque-2-launch-vehicles/
See this excellent piece by @AJ_FI on @SpaceNews_Inc:
- https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-raises-175-million-for-zhuque-2-launch-vehicles/
This shocking footage however seemed to show the spent first stage of a rocket (that had just successfully launched a satellite) landing dangerously close to civilians https://twitter.com/launchstuff/status/1302933386990891008
Meanwhile there were also hot fire tests of new rocket engines by Space Transportation (凌空天行) https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/1302917317538574337
We picked most of this up thanks to @AJ_FI and his excellent reports on @SpaceNews_Inc that we highly recommend for anyone monitoring the #space sector in #China https://spacenews.com/chinese-reusable-experimental-spacecraft-releases-object-before-returning-to-earth/
