How exactly do you know I 'hate' China? Because I actually don't. I'm Swiss very natural, China is just another evil empire like the US.
> and the answer is an emphatic YES: China is watching SpaceX and it is making its own progress
Ok, but I am watching SpaceX too. And so do many other people and agencies. Watching is meaningless.
In terms of progress, there are many others that are doing as much. RocketLab and Relativity space are working on things more advanced then anything China is currently working on. Even BlueOrigin is building a more advanced rocket.
The iSpace vehicle is barley more advanced then European tests that will launch in the next few years. And that is not much more advanced then what NASA did in the 90s. The rocket the iSpace demonstrator was supposed to be for is already canceled by the way, because the company knew they wouldn't have a market. iSpace also had issues with its smaller launch vehicle.
> Nobody else is catching up as quickly as China, in the new space race.
Again, everybody is falling further behind. That was my whole point. SpaceX is innovating faster then anybody else is catching up.
What I recommend to you is to actually look at what China is actually doing rather then just assuming they are great and fantastic.
Because while China is launching a fair amount most of their rockets are not very advanced, mostly copies of former Soviet rocket. The same goes for their human space flight. The rocket engines they are using aren't very advanced.
Non of the private space companies in China are particularly advanced either and its not clear they have much of a market. I would say all of them are behind the major US companies, Firefly, Relativity, ABL, RocketLab.
Neither US, Europe, Korea, Japan or India wants to launch on rockets from China. Even if these companies had launch capacity.
Its a real question if China has enough commercial launches as the state still uses its own rockets for the most part.
> Also don't let the myopia blind you to the fact that whatever SpaceX innovates, others will commercialize. That's the entire point in the first place.
Well, SpaceX will commercialize it first. And maybe years or decades later others will copy it.
Sure eventually these technology will be commodities.
But you are moving the goal post. That wasn't the argument I object to. I object to the idea that China was hot on SpaceX heels and catching up fast. And that's simply not the case.
> Musk has stated multiple times he'd open source everything if he was allowed to ..
> and the answer is an emphatic YES: China is watching SpaceX and it is making its own progress
Ok, but I am watching SpaceX too. And so do many other people and agencies. Watching is meaningless.
In terms of progress, there are many others that are doing as much. RocketLab and Relativity space are working on things more advanced then anything China is currently working on. Even BlueOrigin is building a more advanced rocket.
The iSpace vehicle is barley more advanced then European tests that will launch in the next few years. And that is not much more advanced then what NASA did in the 90s. The rocket the iSpace demonstrator was supposed to be for is already canceled by the way, because the company knew they wouldn't have a market. iSpace also had issues with its smaller launch vehicle.
> Nobody else is catching up as quickly as China, in the new space race.
Again, everybody is falling further behind. That was my whole point. SpaceX is innovating faster then anybody else is catching up.
What I recommend to you is to actually look at what China is actually doing rather then just assuming they are great and fantastic.
Because while China is launching a fair amount most of their rockets are not very advanced, mostly copies of former Soviet rocket. The same goes for their human space flight. The rocket engines they are using aren't very advanced.
Non of the private space companies in China are particularly advanced either and its not clear they have much of a market. I would say all of them are behind the major US companies, Firefly, Relativity, ABL, RocketLab.
Neither US, Europe, Korea, Japan or India wants to launch on rockets from China. Even if these companies had launch capacity.
Its a real question if China has enough commercial launches as the state still uses its own rockets for the most part.
> Also don't let the myopia blind you to the fact that whatever SpaceX innovates, others will commercialize. That's the entire point in the first place.
Well, SpaceX will commercialize it first. And maybe years or decades later others will copy it.
Sure eventually these technology will be commodities.
But you are moving the goal post. That wasn't the argument I object to. I object to the idea that China was hot on SpaceX heels and catching up fast. And that's simply not the case.
> Musk has stated multiple times he'd open source everything if he was allowed to ..
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