How come I missed this episode? Thank you for your updates on China's space programme. I was impressed by Beijing-3 satellite taking ultra high-resolution images of San Francisco.
Thank you for the kind words, and for watching! We have a "Buy Me a Coffee" page here, thanks in advance if you decide to support us!: www.buymeacoffee.com/dongfanghour
Great vid! Would love to see a side-by-side comparison of both the US and China space programs. Who's taking the lead in what area and what's at play for the next 10 years. Awesome content, keep going, and happy new year!
Thanks to Ellie in Space for turning me on to your channel! I'm fascinated with all things space related and China been kicking ass lately. I really didn't know where to go to dig into this subject but I've just subscribed and, man do I have a lot of content to absorb! Sweet deal!
you mentioned that "China shatters previous record of 39 launches in 2019," perhaps you meant 39 launches in 2020? Also, I understand that 2020's 39 launches was only the CASC launches. It excludes 1 more by 星河动力1 . Is your 53 counts, by YTD/2021, CASC only?
Ah yes we meant 39 launches in 2020 and not 2019, thanks for pointing this out! Regarding the number of launches, we counted all launches, but at the time of filming, the two last launches hadn't taken place (Tianhui-4 and TSJW-9). The official final count is indeed 55 launches 👍
Jean, I did a research project recently regarding international trade in space highlighting some of the differences between the Artemis Program and the ILRS agreement. However,my classmate and I couldn't find an actual copy of the signed MOU between China and Russia. Have you found a copy?
Absolutely it’s 55. We shot the video a week or so before the end of the year, which is why we were off count (there was a LM2D and a 3B launch during the last days of 2021)
How much censorship has you content been subject too since the “Hong Kong National Security Law” was passed in June of 2020? Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Some advice, don't forget the taiwan belongs to China-mainland when you want to show China's map, in case you want more subscribes and views from Chinese. And I cancled my subscribe when I saw the wrong China map version. Good luck!😀
@@DongfangHour being a channel providing good content doesn't contradict the fact that you can take a few more minutes to show basic respect to a people and their country's sovereignty, which is recognized by the majority of the international society, including the US, by simply making a map correct. Appreciate your content, but hope you channel to be even better.
@@DongfangHour What an arrogant reply! You guys used a Chinese Pinyin to name your channel, focused on Chinese content, and I'm guessing you want more Chinese subscribes. Then you don't even wanna to pay such little attention the Chinese basic political principles. Dare you say any "N" words when you are making affrican contents, and complaining affricans blame on you about "N" words rather than judge your channel by your content?
@Jiajia Yang, I don't know if you realize this, but the channel is a side hustle, where we research, shoot, edit, make visuals on our own spare time. It's very challenging. We work with the stock footage proposed by image banks, and don't have a compliance team to check for territorial claims (nor do we want to as this channel is non-political). Similarly, we use alternatively Google Maps, Baidu Maps, and Bing Maps in our videos, which may show different realities in terms of border disputes. There is no political statement in any of this. Please understand this. And I will ignore your disrespectful comment on Africans.
Ellie in Space brought me here. Thank you, Thank you ,Thank you for this, I haven't been able to find much about the Chineese space program!!! Liked, subscribed, and very grateful!!! much LOVE ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
20:42 that’s dragon on a new Shepherd with Falcon 9 grid fins lol Do we know when we expect Shenzhou to be retired for their new crew vehicle (lunar one)? And also timeline for the 3 core long March 5?
I don’t know if the NGCV (next gen crewed vehicle) will ever really replace Shenzhou, the capacity is much larger (6-7 taikonauts). It may be possible that Shenzhou continues its service (as well as the Long March 2F!) in parallel 🤔 For the Long March 5DY, the latest statements from high ranking space officials have hinted at 2026
Artemis was Trump's response to the Chinese plans of building a lunar base. That fact, accompanied with China actually having a plan of building a comprehensive scientific experiment base instead of just landing on the Moon and call it a day gives a massive advantage to ILRS.
# of launches isn't really a good benchmark. kg to orbit is. SpaceX had fewer launches, but IIRC, it is #1 in total payload to orbit, data is here. In fact, when Starship makes it to orbit, it is capable of carrying as much payload in 2 flights as China or SpaceX on the Falcon 9 did in a single year. Thus if SpaceX was 100% Starship right now, they'd have a totally impressive launch # (say 5 launches in a year), but that would represent 500t to orbit and an ungodly number of Starlink sats. The smaller your rocket, the more launches you do. While that might be an important number for some markets, like cube sats, overall, total tonnage to orbit is more important if you want to build a spare faring civilization. (and kg/$ to orbit being the most important)
Ray, The number of launches does matter. What is wrong with you? Does this piece make you jealous, envious or hurt your feelings? This piece was on the accomplishments of Chinese space program for 2021 and it has come a long way and will continue to advance. You bring up benchmark should be on kg-to-orbit and SpaceX did better. Who cares? China is not trying to be number one; you are. It is trying to build their space program as WEST has tried to suppress China. I am glad for the success of SpaceX and CNSA. Your post seems like a dubious post.
@@user-mhgu6om9mj2t The narrators made the comparison, and so if you're going to choose a benchmark, you should be able to defend the usefulness of a benchmark. It's like if you compared CPUs, and told me your CPU is the fastest at synthetic benchmark. That may or may not mean you should buy that CPU depending on the application, it might not translate into any real world performance benefit. Imagine if RocketLabs or Relativity Space next year beats SpaceX and CNSA by launching lots and lots of 3D printed, small payload rockets. This might be really useful for people putting 300kg payloads into orbit, but it does not really translate into any significant space infrastructure. If you care about humanity becoming a space faring civilization, of building large orbiting space stations, moon bases, mars colonies, missions to the outer planet moons, putting submarines under the oceans of Europa, you need payload to orbit, not launch cadence. And most importantly, you need the ability to put a lot of mass into orbit for very little cost. I'm sorry if that offends you, but that's what everyone, including China, needs to be working on.
Hi Ray, thanks for the useful input. Agreed that the number of launches alone is not the ideal indicator for a comparison. I don’t have the exact figures in mind, but considering that 30+ US launches were Falcon 9s while ~40 Chinese launches were small to medium lift launch vehicles (LM2, 4, 6, Kuaizhou, Ceres, Hyperbola-1), it is likely that the US put more payload into orbit in 2021.
@@DongfangHour Just to be clear, you guys are providing an immensely useful service, and I'm not knocking you for most of the information you provide, which isn't available on the English internet in any concentrated form, anywhere else. It's mostly due to my childhood fantasy (I grew up in the 70s) of a return to the dreams of that era, and so I tend to be more excited about big new things -- big rockets, space planes, reusable rockets, new stations, etc. So for example, the Long March 9 is more exciting to me (like SLS), because even if it isn't reusable (nor is SLS), it's big enough to put serious stations, vehicles, or bases into TLI or TMI. A peaceful moon or mars race is beneficial to humanity, competition and coopetition tends to focus the governments on spending money in this area, the US/USSR space competition was a very productive time, and I can see CNSA and NASA getting bigger budgets in the same vein.
The reason why I like this channel is, while other China RU-vidrs focused on places and culture, this one focused in space topic. I love it, subscribed. Keep it up! Can't wait for Zhurong updates also~ Since it's hard to find China's space articles in English, and my Mandarin sucks that makes me easily lost in a random Chinese websites and don't know where's to navigate.
