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China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle (www.space.com)

submitted 5 months ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades.

CNSA unveiled the video on Wednesday (April 24) as part of the country's annual space day celebrations. The project is known as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and was jointly announced in 2021 by China and Russia.

China is now leading the moon base initiative and attempting to attract international partners for the endeavor. So far, alongside China, Russia, Venezuela, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, South Africa, Egypt, Thailand and Nicaragua have joined the initiative, according to Space News.

One curious detail of the video is the presence of a retired NASA Space Shuttle appearing to lift off from a launch pad in the background.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm intrigued, how so?

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In short:

Sinovac, "their" covid vaccine, was stolen from Canada when Canada offered to help them produce a vaccine. Signed an official treaty and everything. Canada did the hard work that they literally couldn't, and still can't, do. Then they took the vaccine and claimed it was entirely their own work.

Huawei's 5G development miracle is 100% stolen technology from Nortel. They did no work of their own other than work so shoddy even the UK Tories didn't want to touch it.

These are just the two highest profile ones that go right to the leaders of the CCP.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Funny how both of these stole from Canada. I found no information whatsoever on whether Sinovac stole from anyone.

I did find information on Nortel and how Huawei took their secrets from Chinese hackers. But 1. Nortel filed bankruptcy the same year LTE was introduced, and the hacks were a few years before. I seriously doubt that their technology was this advanced to be retrofit for 5G that easily without much innovation. 2. These were still Chinese hackers. This industry also requires innovation.