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China space watchers hail SpaceX Starship’s ‘breathtaking’ test flight
State-owned media and industry employees praise the massive US rocket’s successful and record-breaking landing.
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China space watchers hail SpaceX Starship’s ‘breathtaking’ test flight
State-owned media and industry employees praise the massive US rocket’s successful and record-breaking landing.
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“How powerful and breathtaking,” a Chinese space start-up employee wrote on her Weibo account.
A Beijing-based rocket engineer, who spoke to the South China Morning Post on the condition of anonymity, said he would give the flight’s achievement a score of 90 out of 100.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX sparks alarm in China with space programme branded 'unprecedented challenge'
China is aiming to become a world-leading space power by 2045
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According to state-owned China Space News, China’s space ambition is being impacted and state space contractor China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is “obviously lagging behind”.
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