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Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space

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298 points Teever | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.257s | source
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monster_truck ◴[26 Aug 25 21:17 UTC] No.45032447[source]▶
This is from January, have there been any updates in the past 7 months?

There is exceptionally little material info in this article and so very much speculation

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nashashmi ◴[26 Aug 25 22:17 UTC] No.45033045[source]▶
Apparently it has been in production since 2015. Why is this the first we are hearing about it?
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1. grues-dinner ◴[26 Aug 25 22:50 UTC] No.45033312[source]▶
Chinese scientific progress relatively rarely gets reported on because nearly all science reporting is a push-based system of institutions throwing press releases at publications. The publications don't have the chops to analyse or verify that information, or to go and find interesting research happening on their own, so they mostly stick with uncritically repackaging output from the places they trust.