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2If that's real footage, that's a clean burn. It's probably an exact replica of the Raptor engine (dual flow staged combustion).
“If that’s real footage, that’s a clean burn. It’s probably an exact replica of the Raptor engine (dual flow staged combustion).”
Zhuque-3’s Tianque 12A engines are open cycle turbine engines. In the videos of Zhuque-3, you can see the turbine exhaust ports next to the engine nozzles.
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13Zhuque-3’s Tianque 12A engines are open cycle turbine engines. In the videos of Zhuque-3, you can see the turbine exhaust ports next to the engine nozzles.
That said. Landspace, the private Chinese company that designed Zhuque-3, is also developing the BF-20, a Full Flow Staged Combustion Raptor 2 knockoff. BF-20 is for its own version of the fully reusable SpaceX Starship. Landspace’s version is going to be 10 meters in diameter, instead of Elon’s 9 meters in diameter Starship.
I'm kind of interested in their government leader election process, because it seems to yield results...
“I’m kind of interested in their government leader election process, because it seems to yield results…”
Chinese power structures are opaque to non-Chinese. It’s opaque to even other East Asians.
What’s known is that there’s a series of difficult civil service exams to advance in the ranks of the CCP, after a CCP member sponsored you to enter. The exams get more and more difficult as you rise closer to the Standing Committee of China. Xi Jinping started out as a rural village headman.
China did something kind of brilliant. They embraced "Communism" but re-defined it to be exactly what they wanted it to be (ethno-state fascism) so they could do it without getting regime changed in the process...
We are not voting out of anything.
just tryin' ta refine your definition of 'communist'..
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