Chinese scientists planning rotating launch system on the moon

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3274828/chinese-scientists-planning-rotating-launch-system-moon

5 Comments

  1. Can someone more educated than I address and either confirm or dispel my concerns here?
    1. Are they going to beat the west to space colonization?
    2. Are they gonna drag Russia along with them?

  2. This is a genius level result that can derive from government driven innovation. At what costs, you’ll not know unless it’s your government.

  3. Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
    |——-|———|—|
    |[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1evoknl/stub/litc210 “Last usage”)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
    |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1evoknl/stub/litc210 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
    | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
    |[NET](/r/Space/comments/1evoknl/stub/litc210 “Last usage”)|No Earlier Than|
    |[NSF](/r/Space/comments/1evoknl/stub/lit3pww “Last usage”)|[NasaSpaceFlight forum](http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com)|
    | |National Science Foundation|

    |Jargon|Definition|
    |——-|———|—|
    |[hypergolic](/r/Space/comments/1evoknl/stub/litc210 “Last usage”)|A set of two substances that ignite when in contact|

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