Blue Origin hot fires its first previously flown booster, prepares for weekend launch.
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The launch "could take place as soon as Sunday, April 19."
The electric vehicle industry in China is the largest in the world:
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China’s vast nuclear power sector is now able to build 50 reactors at a time:
scmp.com/economy/chin...
#China #Trump #Oil
Update at the end of the post on Chinese LEO Satellite Internet Constellations
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Qianfan's pause in launching is over, and they have invested in an offshore launch company.
Exclusive: Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX reuters.com/business/med...
The availability of Starlink in Crimea during the Ukraine war has been questioned:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
China’s AI ascent leaves Trump a stark choice: escalate or relax chip controls?
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DeepSeek's pivot to Huawei chips "underscores the rapid rise of China’s AI industry and its decreasing reliance on Nvidia’s technology, even as chips remain at the heart of the US-China rivalry."
China ramps up satellite production capacity spacenews.com/china-ramps-...
China has established dozens of facilities spanning state-owned institutes, commercial firms, and regionally-backed clusters, with further future factories expected to take capacity to around 7,000 satellites per year.
Google and SpaceX negotiating launch deal for orbital data centers, reports claim
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How will the thousands of orbiting data centers avoid collisions and debris? #kessler_syndrome
Qianfan Operator Invests in Sea Launch to Secure Greater Space Access open.substack.com/pub/phazzee/...
Overview Energy to provide space-based solar power for Meta data centers spacenews.com/overview-ene... via
@SpaceNews_Inc
Overview emerged from stealth last December, announcing that it had demonstrated technologies to collect solar power in space and transmit it to Earth through infrared lasers.
It seems that Trump is worried about the midterm elections. They are cranking out daily solicitations like this:
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It's hard to believe solicitations like this work, but I guess some people fall for them.
