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China to Launch Solar Telescope

Posted by michael on from the doesn't-work-in-the-dark dept.

Dirak writes "China plans to launch the world's largest and most advanced space solar telescope (SST) into 735-kilometre-high earth synchronous orbit in 2008. Japan and the United States are also jointly developing an SST, coded as SOLAR-B, now scheduled for launch in the September of 2005. But with a diameter of 0.5 metre, SOLAR-B has half capability in optical resolution than that of the Chinese-made solar telescope."

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  1. USA Subsidizing Chinese Space/Military Programs by d102804 · · Score: 0, Troll
    This project by the Chinese to launch a massive space telescope costs millions of dollars. Yet, millions of Chinese live in poverty, and the World Bank continues to provide cheap loans to the Chinese to build their infrasture. We Americans are the principal investors in the World Bank.

    What is the net result? We are subsidizing the expensive Chinese programs to launch satellites and space telescopes and militarize space. While we give more than $40 billion to China for development, the Chinese initiate massive space and space-militarization programs, including nuclear-weapons development.

    We should immediately cut China off of the World Bank lifeline.

    By contrast, when Japan was impoverished in the 1950s, the Japanese spent almost no money on space programs or nuclear weapons. The Chinese are playing Americans for a bunch of fools.