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Cosmic Penguin Oct 17, 2024

Hi!

If you come across this account, please note that I am still thinking of how to make good use of my account since it doesn't seems most major spaceflight players' official accounts have migrated to here.

If you know of any tools that can still automatically repost my Twitter tweets to here, please let me know and I'll restart this reposting service immediately.

Thanks! 😉

Cosmic Penguin Sep 10, 2023

Sorry to everyone following my account - I did not have time during my 3 weeks trip to Japan mid-late August to manually repost my Chinese spaceflight thread posts to here from Twitter(X), and I'm still readjusting back-to-normal.

But rest assured that the missing posts will be moved to here soon!

Cosmic Penguin Jul 29, 2023

#SpaceflightNewsMemes Why! Why Competition! Why!?

https://spacenews.com/ula-has-concerns-about-a-third-competitor-in-national-security-space-launch/

ULA has concerns about a third competitor in national security space launch

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 12, 2023

#SpaceflightNewsMemes State of actual usage of methane/liquid oxygen rocket engines to orbit and beyond, July 12, 2023 (Final) Version

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 2, 2023

Its new home is coming up fairly nicely and close to "Boca Chica pace":

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1675531113035632640

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 2, 2023

And this other pad is important - it will house many of the new, bigger liquid-fueled Chinese private LSPs' rockets on a "clean pad":

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1675536758317146112

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 2, 2023

Interestingly source's an interview related to use of the new commercial launch pads down at Wenchang, also featuring this upgraded LM-8 that pushes it right into Atlas V 401 capability. This "LM-8G" starts to feel like useful for LEO constellations...

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1675527256620556288

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 2, 2023

...the one confirmed is sth very interesting to all of you. We might be seeing the 1st methane-LOX rocket engine getting things to orbit within this month - & it's the Chinese company LandSpace trying again after coming short last December w/ their ZQ-2:

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1675524830811279360

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 2, 2023

After a "relatively" quiet 2nd quarter, things seems to be picking up speed lately, not the least of which there seems to be at least 3-4 launches lined up in early-mid July. All but one were from NOTAMs that doesn't even give complete pictures of what they are. However...

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Cosmic Penguin Jul 2, 2023

It's been half the way since 2023 started & there has been lots of movements on all fronts as China pushes their utilization of orbit & beyond to a scale never seen before. But that's considering the tradition that they usually have less things happening in 1st half of the year.