Neue Studie: Jeder außer China hat in der Umlaufbahn mit niedriger Erde ziemlich aufgehört. | Seit 2000 hat China in langlebigen Umlaufbahnen mehr tote Raketenmasse angesammelt als der Rest der Welt zusammen. Besorgniserregend ist es erst seit 2 Jahren beschleunigt
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/everyone-but-china-has-pretty-much-stopped-littering-in-low-earth-orbit/
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China is still using hypergolic fuels and dumping them on population centers, though new designs are cryogenic and they’re pushing towards reusability. It seems like sustainable spaceflight is something they’re aware of, it’s just not as big a priority.
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its kind of crazy how bad americans got at fighting communism when the soviet collapsed, they don’t even try to send a human sacrifice at the moon anymore with a 50/50 chance of murdering them, they just go „yeah but heh its poluting ?“ while dumping 9 trillion liters of forever chemicals into their own drinking water
It would seem the Kessler Syndrome is inevitable.
you could say the same thing about coal, or oil, or anything on the path of industrialization. they’re at different stages of development. china is a leader in green energy now. and they’re going very quickly on space too
They do get very messy and careless with Long March upper stages.
China gives zero Fs. They pollute everything. The Yangtze river is the biggest source of ocean plastics. They use hypergolic fuels and launch over populated areas. They are the world’s largest producer of CO2 and it’s not even close. They use actual slave labor to produce the cheap stuff we buy.
Their motto should be „This is why we can’t have nice things.“
Not to excuse China, but it’s almost like the way the west polluted the atmosphere and water for centuries.
How do I say this. I don’t feel particularly inclined at this moment to believe anything a US space agency says about the Chinese. Knowing the type of government the US currently has, I can’t help but feel distrust, specially when it comes to such a competitor as is China.
Not that I support China in particular, but I find myself trusting US agencies and companies less and less
Don’t worry, now we litter in Upper-Earth orbit