China secretly launched the Long March 12B, its reusable rocket rival to Falcon 9. Without warning anyone, without the usual protocol of alerts to air and sea navigation. So, all of a sudden. The flight departed from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the Gobi Desert, loaded with satellites for the Qianfan megaconstellation, the Chinese bet for a satellite Internet that posed a face to Starlink. The China Corporation of Aerospace Science an…
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China secretly launched the Long March 12B, its reusable rocket rival to Falcon 9. Without warning anyone, without the usual protocol of alerts to air and sea navigation. So, all of a sudden. The flight departed from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the Gobi Desert, loaded with satellites for the Qianfan megaconstellation, the Chinese bet for a satellite Internet that posed a face to Starlink. The China Corporation of Aerospace Science an…