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Rocket To Launch China’s Next Space Station Module Arrives At Launch Center

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 05 2022, @09:34PM   Printer-friendly
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A Long March 5B rocket has arrived at Wenchang spaceport as China gears up to send its second space station module into orbit.

The components of the third Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket arrived at Wenchang May 29, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced (Chinese).

[...] The mission aims to send the roughly 22-ton Wentian experiment module into orbit to join Tianhe, the similarly-sized core module for the Tiangong space station which launched in April 2021.

The 17.9-meter-long Wentian ("Quest for the Heavens") module will dock with the forward port of Tianhe, which is currently in a 387 by 386-kilometer orbit inclined by 41.5 degrees.

The Tianhe space station could be expanded to six modules.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2022, @10:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2022, @10:16PM (#1250804)

    Taste the negro.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 06 2022, @04:34AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 06 2022, @04:34AM (#1250852)

    Why does China never choose to do anything first? If I weren't properly trained in equality I might speculate their 3rd world authoritarian shithole was not a good thing.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Monday June 06 2022, @08:12AM (1 child)

      by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday June 06 2022, @08:12AM (#1250878)

      > Why does China never choose to do anything first

      US in the late 19th century was in a similar situation. They "copied" our rail system and "copied" our (UK) steam ships. Electrification, a mostly European invention. Computers, a mostly British invention .... Cars, a mainly French/German invention ....

      It takes generations to build up the knowledge base (or indeed to break it down). China is still building.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday June 06 2022, @03:46PM

        by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 06 2022, @03:46PM (#1250991) Journal

        Electrical technology was developed simultaneously across Europe and America. Before the likes of Benjamin Franklin, it was a whole lot of theory and speculation. By Franklin's time it had moved into experimental stages. It took some time longer, before it became anything more than a curiosity. Certainly quite some time, before it became anything more than a luxury.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity [wikipedia.org]

        Further work was conducted in the 17th and early 18th centuries by Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay.[12] Later in the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fund his work. In June 1752 he is reputed to have attached a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and flown the kite in a storm-threatened sky.[13] A succession of sparks jumping from the key to the back of his hand showed that lightning was indeed electrical in nature.[14] He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior[15] of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge in terms of electricity consisting of both positive and negative charges.[12]
        Half-length portrait oil painting of a man in a dark suit
        Michael Faraday's discoveries formed the foundation of electric motor technology

        In 1791, Luigi Galvani published his discovery of bioelectromagnetics, demonstrating that electricity was the medium by which neurons passed signals to the muscles.[16][17][12] Alessandro Volta's battery, or voltaic pile, of 1800, made from alternating layers of zinc and copper, provided scientists with a more reliable source of electrical energy than the electrostatic machines previously used.[16][17] The recognition of electromagnetism, the unity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to Hans Christian Ørsted and André-Marie Ampère in 1819–1820. Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analysed the electrical circuit in 1827.[17] Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by James Clerk Maxwell, in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862.[18]

        While the early 19th century had seen rapid progress in electrical science, the late 19th century would see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as Alexander Graham Bell, Ottó Bláthy, Thomas Edison, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Ányos Jedlik, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Charles Algernon Parsons, Werner von Siemens, Joseph Swan, Reginald Fessenden, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car [wikipedia.org]
        Cars were also developed globally and for the average person, Americans got them first.

        Cars came into global use during the 20th century, and developed economies depend on them. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the car when German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen.[1][4][5] Cars became widely available in the early 20th century. One of the first cars accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced animal-drawn carriages and carts.[6] In Europe and other parts of the world, demand for automobiles did not increase until after World War II.[6]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET [wikipedia.org]
        Arguably one of the most important pieces of modern electronics and the basis of the "digital revolution" was the creation of the MOSFET:

        The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET), also known as the metal–oxide–silicon transistor (MOS transistor, or MOS),[1] is a type of insulated-gate field-effect transistor that is fabricated by the controlled oxidation of a semiconductor, typically silicon. The voltage of the gate terminal determines the electrical conductivity of the device; this ability to change conductivity with the amount of applied voltage can be used for amplifying or switching electronic signals.

        The MOSFET was invented by Mohamed M. Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959, and first presented in 1960. It is the basic building block of modern electronics, and the most frequently manufactured device in history, with an estimated total of 13 sextillion (1.3×1022) MOSFETs manufactured between 1960 and 2018.[2] It is the dominant semiconductor device in digital and analog integrated circuits (ICs),[3] and the most common power device.[4] It is a compact transistor that has been miniaturised and mass-produced for a wide range of applications, revolutionizing the electronics industry and the world economy, and being central to the digital revolution, silicon age and information age. MOSFET scaling and miniaturization has been driving the rapid exponential growth of electronic semiconductor technology since the 1960s, and enables high-density ICs such as memory chips and microprocessors. The MOSFET is considered the "workhorse" of the electronics industry.

        Sure, you can say that they all owe a lot to those that came before them. But, you can say that about most everything.

        We live in a globalized age. China is the way it is due to culture and the current party in power. Democracy may have it's troubles as do Republics, but they're ever so much better than whatever the amalgamation of Communism that is China's government. Certainly better than the disaster area known as North Korea. Because, that's what North Korea is, it's a state in a general state of disaster, but that won't accept help except on it's own terms. Not due to the will of the people, but due to the will of those in power. At this point though, it may also be "the will of the people", due to the fact that they don't know any better. China has some of the same issues that North Korea does, but they have a lot more neighbors and don't worship the people in power. Though, it may seem a minor distinction.

        --
        Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by unauthorized on Monday June 06 2022, @09:19AM (2 children)

      by unauthorized (3776) on Monday June 06 2022, @09:19AM (#1250882)

      Uh, why the fuck does it matter who does it "first"? Is the rest of world not allowed to build hospitals just because the Ancient Egyptians invented medicine?

      But to answer the underlining thinly veiled national chauvinistic bs, the reason you don't hear much about Chinese inventions are because you are part of the Anglosphere and mostly hear about inventions from English-speaking countries. There are a fuckton Chinese journals that publish tons of valuable research daily, you can look them up on the master journal list [clarivate.com] (requires registration for most features).

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday June 06 2022, @03:49PM (1 child)

        by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 06 2022, @03:49PM (#1250992) Journal

        Would be nice, if they weren't known for stealing everything that's not bolted down. And then, just making hasty sketches and as good of guestimates as possible for those things that are.

        --
        Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
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