While American IQs are dropping due to uncontrolled mass migration, and the nation is suffering by wokism in the school system punishing merit and achievement, racial guilt, trade deficits paid for with money printing, and the hollowing out of its industrial base by financial elites, China is not merely copying any longer, but actually surpassing the US in technological fields such as quantum computers, AI, and space exploration and engineering.
https://www.then24.com/2021/06/04/china-is-developing-engines-to-go-to-mars-in-39-days/
>The Chinese space station is already the first in history that uses ion engines to stay in orbit. But the space agency of the Asian country wants to go much further and develop this propulsion technology to travel to Mars in record time: only 39 days.
>The Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) has beaten NASA, that it will use ion thrusters on its Lunar Gateway space station to keep it in orbit over our natural satellite. The Lunar Gateway is designed to act as a transit station that facilitates exploration of the Moon and Mars.
>The main module of the Chinese station – called Tianhe – has four ion thrusters. Tianhe – which has already received the first visit from a cargo ship as you can see in the video below these lines – will use these engines to correct and maintain the orbit of the entire station around the Earth.
>Ion engines are also very efficient and require very little fuel. The CNSA’s calculation is to use 400 kilograms of fuel to keep its station in orbit for one year. The ISS, however, requires 400 tons of chemical fuel per year.
>But the CNSA has far more ambitious plans that threaten Musk’s plans to get to Mars before anyone else: Chinese engineers want to develop a 200-megawatt ion engine capable of propelling a manned spacecraft to Mars in just 39 days.
I'm glad at least one nation will be able to leave this rock and actually perpetuate humanity.
