Ilyich Sanders

@nhk_news Fun Facts: 1. None of the 14 signatory countries are South China Sea coastal states. 2. This means Japan has forfeited its sovereignty claims over Okinotori Reef.

南シナ海仲裁判断10年 14か国共同声明に中国が反論 news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-… #nhk_news

@SecularReaction @teortaxesTex hanging rocket:❌ laying rocket:✓

@teortaxesTex Its showing a hole being sawn into the rocket body.

What is this even supposed to show? Self-hating Chinese are suffering…

@nikutaberuru Keeping provoking , the memory of over 35 million casualties will resurface.

中国は敵ではないって 言っている人がいてびっくりした。 中国は敵です。

@SpaceNosey That’s just how testing goes, so it was probably designed this way from the start. Normally we’d expect a smoother descent instead of this sudden drop.

En este video puede verse lo rápido que se mueven los cables, y que en el último momento el booster cae de golpe, no sé si eso estaba previsto. #LongMarch10B

@ShepJoel When China comes up with original inventions, rednecks go: "They can’t even copy stuff." At all other times, rednecks scream: "China stole our intellectual property!!"

So it's coal powered? And it has no landing legs, so has to be caught by wires? And this is... impressive? It's striking that they've seen what a finished, workable design looks like for the best part of a decade now, and they still can't replicate it.

@AtfCool @CNSpaceflight This is clearly not an official video. Can’t you tell someone filmed the screen with a phone?

@CNSpaceflight The camera looks like it's in a bucket of water.

The return of Long March 10 booster, view from the ship

@ortegajorge @CNSpaceflight Falcon 9 blew up many times before landing reusably, but the CZ-10B nailed it on the first try. The reusable stage's black smoke and the recovery net's stress design need improvements, but it’s still a better recovery method.

@CNSpaceflight the wires moving dude.. it surely caused a heart attack on the engineers. nice catch on the litle hooks.

@Master_Synaps @CNSpaceflight The chopsticks occupy the launch pad. After the launch of CZ-10B at 12:05, the pad is ready for the next mission. It is obviously more efficient to conduct maintenance on reusable components at other sites.

@CNSpaceflight The cable catch works obviously, but they still have to off load it and prep it for refight. Space X 's chopsticks would seem to be a more efficient method. Falcon 9's method overall is probably not that much better.

@KES_Alaska @MarcusHouse Yes, this part is unnecessary.

I have always quite liked that cable catch idea. Nice smooth way to be grabbed without needing to be 100% accurate. Awesome to see it in action.

@1WorldExplained @shanaka86 jealous

@shanaka86 Hahahahahha. Wow congrats stupidest post I’ve read today. (1) it’s exactly what SpaceX has been doing (2) it has obviously involved industrial espionage and copying SpaceX.

BREAKING: For 10 years the world believed there was one way to reuse a rocket: land it upright on its engines, the way SpaceX does. Today China refused to copy it, and pulled off something SpaceX never managed on a first flight. It caught the rocket instead. The Long March 10B lifted off from Hainan, China this morning, and about 6 minutes later its first stage came back down toward a 25,000-ton ship at sea. It did not land. Hooks on the falling booster snagged a net of tensioned steel wires strung across the deck, the wires riding robotic rails that slid into place to meet it. No landing legs. No touchdown. A rocket plucked out of its own descent by a moving net, on the maiden flight of a brand-new vehicle. No one handed China this. SpaceX guards its rocket tech as “trade secrets”, not “patents”, precisely so it cannot be read and copied. China watched a decade of public flights and then built an entirely different machine to reach the same prize, catching instead of landing, which sheds the heavy legs and spares the fuel a soft touchdown burns to hover. And this was never about cheaper satellites, though it delivers those too, feeding the thousands of birds in China's Starlink rival. Its deeper purpose is the Moon. That booster shares its core with the rocket meant to land Chinese astronauts on the lunar surface by 2030. In the same season, America's own Moon rocket, Starship, has flown 12 times and still has not shown the single maneuver its lunar plan depends on. One flight does not dethrone SpaceX. It has landed hundreds. What ended today is not SpaceX's lead. It is Uncle Sam’s belief that it owns the only road to the Moon. The piece works out which way of coming home actually wins.

@Td7653 @octoberskyshow @The_Guy_Space those four heavy landing leg.

@Wong_May1 @octoberskyshow @The_Guy_Space What landing gear?

According to you 🤔🤔 Which of these booster catching method is Best 🤔 and WHY ?????? Chinese🇨🇳 method vs American 🇺🇸method

@_devalopr @GrantObi Good.China never care about to be #1 or #2,the only thing they focus on is to make every high technology thing cheaper and cheaper

@GrantObi And this is SpaceX without Starship. I don't see China solving full reusability anytime soon. I'm sure they'll surpass falcon 9 soon but starship will be launching every day by then. China will be a strong #2, after SpaceX

This is how far China got without reusability. GG everyone, China will now crush us.

@morris_que14 Nope this is just for the people,for every single Chinese.

btw, this kind of logistic capability that the PRC is showing has obvious implications for any future PLAN amphibious landing on Taiwan. This is great practice for exactly that scenario.

@eric_sdi @PhilipJohnston Each has its own strengths. In terms of efficiency rankings, the Chinese approach will evidently prove superior . Nevertheless, landing legs are a necessity for landings on other celestial bodies. Various reusable rocket concepts developed by China are undergoing test flights.

@PhilipJohnston Straight out of one of our patent specifications. I’ve been saying since 2015 that one day we will all look back and realize how wasteful f9 legs were… Think of all those unnecessary legs and lost mass to orbit!

Ive always thought this catch design makes a ton of sense

@nuno_arede @PhilipJohnston China has five or six technical demonstration rockets comparable to Falcon 9 scheduled for test flights this year, so what you mentioned is not a problem at all. This technology is intended for the Blue Planet project.

@PhilipJohnston It does make sense for Earth, where the infrastructure is, the catch tower does most of the work. But in reality you want the rocket/booster to be as independent as possible in order to land in different planets/moons where there is no infrastructure whatsoever

@OverlyTrev @dpoddolphinpro You may take a screenshot as evidence: within 30 years, developing countries will gain access to affordable space launch services through China. SpaceX will continue to serve the world's richest man.

@dpoddolphinpro China has a long way to go to catch up to the cadence of a Falcon 9. Starship with full reusability as we know is a whole other level.

VIDEO OF CHANG ZHENG 10B CATCH That's... a lot of smoke from the interstage lol. But they caught it! This capability allowed SpaceX to become *the* launch superpower. China could now do that too. x.com/raz_liu/status…

@OverlyTrev @dpoddolphinpro Difference: China does not allow so-called high-tech industries with seemingly formidable barriers to entry to become money-making tools for the Elons. Instead, technologies such as photovoltaic panels are turned into commonplace products that benefit the general public.

@peterrhague @rpotter_9 It’s honestly quite charismatic of you to try reasoning earnestly with those jealous rednecks LMAO

The only similarity with Falcon is the use of an offshore barge landing, a concept which Blue Origin tried to patent but couldn't defend from SpaceX because the concept was obvious and had even featured in an old Soviet sci-fi film. The rocket body and engines are iterations of ones indigenously developed for the Long March 5. The cable catch system is entirely novel.

Say it together everyone: "China respects intellectual property".

@The_Guy_Space @OverlyTrev truth

@OverlyTrev Even you have god themselves you can't have rtls turn around time within hours their are hundreds of security check , minimum one need 1 month with all safety, this all shit don't make any sense , so turn around time is not that imp

@SpaceXImpact @octoberskyshow @The_Guy_Space for why?This is clearly an unverified, flawed conclusion. Chinese aircraft carriers effortlessly arrest medium-sized AEW aircraft with enormous kinetic energy—anything is possible, okay?

@octoberskyshow @The_Guy_Space wrong comparison. you can never catch starship level rocket using cables. the structure will need to be much bigger and it gets unstable on sea