On April 29, the second launch of the Long March 5B launch vehicle successfully placed the first spacecraft of the Chinese space station project, the Tianhe core module, into a predetermined orbit, and the Chinese Communist Party was overjoyed. The symphony orchestra played in the open air while the rocket behind it lifted off, which Xinhua described as “an exciting moment”; Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message at the first opportunity; the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs microblog also posted an article on May 1, “China ignites vs. India ignites”, using the successful launch of the Chinese rocket Contrast with the Indian epidemic tsunami cremation of a large number of bodies, causing the Indian Embassy in China to protest.
The climax was yet to come. Due to design problems with the Long March 5B rocket, its 21-ton core segment was found to have “fallen out of control” and is currently “tumbling” in space, making it difficult to determine when and where it fell (the European Space Agency estimates it to have fallen between May 8 and May 10, at latitudes of 41 degrees north to 41 degrees south – that is, between New York, Madrid and Beijing in the north and southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand in the south).
This has sparked widespread concern. For example, on May 4, the U.S. Space Command said in response to media inquiries that the California-based 18th Space Control Squadron, which provides front-line space protection and early warning for the global space exploration agency, would publish daily updates on the location of this runaway Chinese Communist rocket debris in space starting that day; on May 6, the U.S. Secretary of Defense said there were no plans to shoot down the rocket yet; and on May 7, the U.S. and South Korean militaries discussed how to respond to On the 7th, the U.S. and South Korean militaries discussed how to respond to the Communist rocket wreckage crashing into Earth, with the Japanese and German militaries in attendance.
On May 7, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the vast majority of the rocket’s components would be ablated and destroyed during re-entry, and that “the probability of harm to aviation activities and the ground is extremely low.” In response to a reporter’s question, “Can you guarantee that the crash will not cause any damage? Where does the Chinese side think the rocket will crash?” Wang Wenbin did not answer, but said “the relevant authorities will inform the public in a timely manner”. The Chinese space agency has not yet confirmed to the outside world whether the Long March 5B rocket is under control or will fall out of control. In addition, CCP mouthpieces such as the Global Times have been talking out of their asses, smearing international attention as nothing more than Western hype about the “space threat from China.
After all, the CCP’s evasions and sophistry cannot hide the facts. The uncontrolled crash of the Long March 5B rocket is a completely man-made problem. As we all know, the Long March 5B is a rare rocket with one stage in orbit (if you add four boosters, it can be considered a “stage and a half configuration” rocket), and after a successful launch, its core stage will briefly enter a near-Earth orbit, orbit the Earth for several days, and eventually, due to the dissipation of the Earth’s upper atmosphere, its orbit gradually decreases, and finally fall down somewhere on the Earth. somewhere on Earth. The reason why it is “somewhere” is that the density distribution of the Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected by local gravity, season, temperature, solar activity, and so on, and the rate of orbit reduction of the core stage is also affected by its size, shape, attitude, and so on. Therefore, it is basically impossible to accurately predict its free fall location well in advance of multiple orbital cycles.
There are, of course, ways to eliminate the potential for a fall. It is to let the rocket (or spacecraft) fall into the “spacecraft graveyard” in the South Pacific by manually controlling the engine ignition before it falls into the atmosphere. The spacecraft that have crashed here in a controlled manner include the decommissioned Mir space station and the six Salute space stations, with more than 263 spacecraft disposed of in the region between 1971 and 2016.
However, it is clear that the Long March 5B rocket does not have a controlled fall design; that is, the CCP has not even considered how to eliminate the problem of rocket fall hazards.
A strong proof is that the Long March 5B launch vehicle, which was first launched on May 5, 2020, broke away from near-Earth orbit over the Atlantic Ocean in the eastern United States on May 11, began to orbit the earth uncontrollably and crashed, and at 23:33 Beijing time on May 12, its giant wreckage – since the 1991 Soviet 39-ton “The largest man-made object since the Soviet Union’s 39-ton Salute-7 spacecraft in 1991, measuring 30 meters in length and 5 meters in diameter, was so large that astronomer McDowell of Harvard University’s Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics exclaimed, “I’ve never seen such a large man-made object pass over so many important cities ……” – After a flight of 102 laps around the earth, some debris fell like rain on the territory of the West African country of Cote d’Ivoire, destroying several villages with several houses dwellings, fortunately without casualties. The debris is the largest piece of the U.S. space lab Skylab since it crashed to the ground in 1979. NASA called it “very dangerous” at the time.
Judging from the two current launches of the Long March 5B, it has been plagued by the problem of uncontrolled crashes, with huge potential risks. Moreover, according to the “three-step” development strategy of the Chinese Communist Party’s manned space program, the construction of the space station is scheduled to be completed in orbit around 2022, and there will be many more launches of the Long March 5B rocket, so the threat and danger it poses to the world cannot be avoided.
In fact, the controlled fall design of rockets (or aircraft) is technically mature, but why does the Chinese Communist Party not adopt it? On the surface, it may be a matter of quick success or “cost saving,” but in essence, it is a matter of overwhelming enthusiasm to catch up with the United States, disregard for the moral bottom line of science and technology, and contempt for life.
Of course, the CCP’s performance in this regard is not limited to the Long March 5B rocket. Can the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research get away with the plague that is currently ravaging the world, not to mention its real source? Take organ transplantation, the Chinese Communist Party is striving to be the number one organ transplantation country, and it has even done “the most unprecedented evil on the planet” – live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, what else does it dare not do?
The CCP’s development of science and technology is not only evil, but its goal is even more evil – to control human beings and the world. If the CCP can thus establish “technological hegemony,” it would be an unparalleled disaster for the world.
Therefore, the world must be highly alert to the CCP’s technological ambitions and have the means to deal with them. After all, the technological hegemony that the Chinese Communist Party craves today is not impossible to be contained.
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