Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted May 24, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted May 24, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ******** Spacecraft Accused of Dumping Experimental Fuel in Streak Seen Across American Sky Across the American West, a massive glowing streak appeared in the skies last weekend — and an experimental rocket fuel seems to have been its source. As This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up the spectacular light show was almost certainly the result of spent fuel from ZhuQue-2E, a rocket from the ******** startup Landspace that used a methane-based fuel known “ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ” as its upper stage burned. Launched on May 17, the rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, a mega-bright streak was seen over at least seven American states — Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington — and skywatchers online began speculating about what could have caused it. Around that same time, the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that the radiant tails were likely from the ******** rocket. Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell later confirmed, per his own measurements, that the source of the “ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ” seen out west was from a ZhuQue-2E “ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up .” As This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up shows, the massively bright streak lit up the entire night sky, which in some areas was already illuminated by auroras from a geomagnetic storm that just so happened to have occurred at the same time. Soon after the rocket made it to space, skywatchers began This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up of the mega-bright glowing streak — and as This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up at the time, those radiant streaks also took place during an aurora, which was caused by a geomagnetic storm that happened at the time same time. In the so-called “ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ,” Landspace scored a massive goal for its home country back in 2023, when it This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to successfully launch a rocket — another ZhuQue-2E, and its This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up t — using methalox. In subsequent years, the American companies This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up and This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up became the second and third to launch spacecraft into orbit using the methane-based fuel, which is lauded by experts as far cleaner than the standard RP-1 kerosene that This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up when burned. In a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , rocket propulsion expert Filippo Maggi explained that although methane is, like CO2, also a greenhouse gas, it burns cleaner than RP-1 — and provides more energy, too. “If you produce a good propulsion unit, the efficiency of that unit can be as high as 99.5 percent,” Maggi told the site back in 2021. “That means that the residues of methane would be basically zero. You might have some carbon monoxide released instead of carbon dioxide. But that would be very little.” More on China’s space case: Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #******** #Spacecraft #Accused #Dumping #Experimental #Fuel #Streak #American #Sky This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/258133-chinese-spacecraft-accused-of-dumping-experimental-fuel-in-streak-seen-across-american-sky/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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