Been searching for links with SpaceX F9 China…so far…

Musk said he appreciated that SpaceX has served as a “forcing function” to push the aerospace industry forward. China is developing a reusable rocket. Russia is cutting prices. US-based competitors are scrambling to develop boosters that can compete on price. A successful Block 5 rocket would certainly apply more force to that function.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/spacexs-block-5-rocket-passes-its-first-test-but-final-exams-remain/

>>1390381

China in a Space race against SpaceX

Technically, "China's" launch of a Venezuelan remote sensing satellite last Monday was conducted by the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), which, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, is a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) – which is itself majority-owned by the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council of China. That makes CGWIC an arm of the Chinese government.

What does this mean for investors? It means that in competing against CGWIC, SpaceX is essentially competing against the entirety of the Chinese nation, an entity that can incur almost unlimited debt to develop and expand its space program – or print its own money to fund it. This makes for a formidable competitor.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-races-catch-spacex-111300636.html

>>1390459

China is “sputniking” the USA with military technology surprises. Technologies like hypersonic missiles, railguns, electromagnetic launchers and metamaterials. It is not that China got fast. It is that the USA got slow.

The US rocket developers (Lockheed and Boeing) have been the same companies developing a lot of fighter planes and other military systems.

The traditional US rocket development has failed to develop new rockets for decades. Elon Musk and SpaceX have shown that rapid technology development and implementation is possible. This will be discussed further in the next article.

Elon and SpaceX were able to develop the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Dragon capsule, and the Falcon Heavy in about ten years while also developing commercial launch dominance.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/04/china-is-sputniking-the-us-so-the-us-needs-to-spread-elon-musk-and-spacex-methods.html

The loss of AMOS-6 could come as a blow to Spacecom, which saw its stock plummet in late November 2015 when its AMOS-5 satellite failed while in orbit.

SpaceX, Facebook, Israel, China Connected to Sept 2016 Explosion

The Chinese conglomerate Beijing Xinwei Technology Group was set to purchase Spacecom following the successful launch of AMOS-6, SpaceNews reported Aug. 24.

https://www.space.com/33937-facebook-satellite-lost-in-spacex-rocket-explosion.html