China könnte monatelang ohne Notstartfähigkeit zur Raumstation Tiangong sein und somit keine Möglichkeit einer schnellen Reaktion auf eine neue Krise nach dem Vorfall in Shenzhou-20 haben.
China faces temporary emergency launch gap after space station lifeboat crisis
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Well well well, how can Mr Musk not be behind all these unfortunate events
It sounds like China’s contingency plan is working well. The space station crew has a capsule to return to Earth in an emergency.
It’s no shock to hear the Russians screwed up due to poor maintenance on old launch hardware. And space crap hitting a window on orbit? No shock there either. The space shuttle and space station got/ get hit all the time. The soviets had a capsule hit just a year or two back. Space is space.
So to be clear, they currently have a lifeboat capsule to replace the damaged one docked at the space station, which they managed to launch in just over half the time it usually takes, with the next one set to be completed months ahead of schedule. They are technically not meeting their usually safety requirements of having one ready to launch in case of emergency, but they are well on track to have the issue rectified.