US -amerikanische Intel -Beamte „besorgt“ China werden bald wiederverwendbare Starts | „Sie müssen sich auf dem Orbit tanken, weil sie nicht so häufig auf den Raum zugreifen wie wir.“
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/us-intel-officials-cite-reusable-launch-as-difference-maker-with-china/
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It will likely still take a few more years but inevitably more countries will have reusable launch vehicles.
With musk having businesses there, they could have this technology overnight plus more
It’s been proven to work so people who start to replicate it. Innovation never just stays in one place people will copy
Garbage article, if not garbage intel.
>“They have to have on-orbit refueling because they don’t access space as frequently as we do.“
The one thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
The necessity of refueling is dependent on the destination and payload mass, not the flight rate. And you could even argue that refueling can only be done with _higher_ flight rates.
So this just serves as an indication that whoever wrote/caused the article has zero knowledge about space.
There’s nothing particularly magical about what SpaceX is doing. Yes it’s rocket science, but it’s far from unfathomable. There’s no question that the Chinese will be prioritizing this capability for themselves, and zero reason to imagine that they won’t achieve it within a few years, and then rapidly develop it at scale.
Criticize their government for a lot of bad things – but they are *much* better at prioritizing strategic scientific and engineering initiatives than the US is. Just look at their astronomical solar build-out over the past few years. While in the US electrical bills are now rising much faster than inflation, in China they are flat or declining despite meteoric increases in demand.
They now *own* the world solar market, and they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future due to the US’s unwillingness to acknowledge that fossil fuels are no longer an economically viable future for energy production. It is reasonable to believe that similar outcomes will occur in the strategic space industries.
I kinda fail to see the *concerning* part here. They probably won’t reusable rockets to „deliver“ explosive payloads.
What is this, the *red scare* of the 60s?
Probably not the worst for space enthusiasts to have a little competition again.