China has contracted with Private Space to pick up entire enterprises and send them into orbit, thus making the development of a space station in orbit irrelevant :-) (ok it's Friday alright?)
It is a pretty convoluted title. Perhaps they could have said, "China's Commercial Space companies are now at the 'blowing up rockets' stage." Which is the penultimate stage to the one where the rocket gets all the way into orbit.
It is kind of a weird concept in purely Communist country insomuch as the idea of commercial space in an open market country is to to capture market capital and prioritize it to space launch capability. What is harder is that you can't really sell orbital rockets to third parties (the pesky NPT gets in the way, and it is generally frowned upon). I would have expected them to go with something similar to the the setup Russia has with USRC[1].
It is a pretty convoluted title. Perhaps they could have said, "China's Commercial Space companies are now at the 'blowing up rockets' stage." Which is the penultimate stage to the one where the rocket gets all the way into orbit.
It is kind of a weird concept in purely Communist country insomuch as the idea of commercial space in an open market country is to to capture market capital and prioritize it to space launch capability. What is harder is that you can't really sell orbital rockets to third parties (the pesky NPT gets in the way, and it is generally frowned upon). I would have expected them to go with something similar to the the setup Russia has with USRC[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Rocket_and_Space_Corpor...