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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: 0.001s | 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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nosignono ◴[26 Aug 25 22:55 UTC] No.45033343[source]▶
Because English language news sources aren't particularly interested in developing the relationships necessary to report on Chinese scientific breakthroughs. It undermines the prevailing media narrative that China is behind and backwater.

Americans don't like the idea that maybe China is actually rocketing past them technologically and infrastructurally, so news doesn't really report on it much.

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1. themafia ◴[27 Aug 25 01:22 UTC] No.45034383{3}[source]▶
> It undermines the prevailing media narrative that China is behind and backwater.

The prevailing narrative, particularly around hacker news, is that China is a dangerous foe and it's technological progress is a sign that we need to give our own government more money and less oversight so that we don't lose our "technological advantage."

> Americans don't like the idea that maybe China is actually rocketing past them technologically and infrastructurally

I don't buy this explanation given it's value to American propagandists. American society is naturally competitive. There's only two likely reasons why it doesn't get reported.

It's either not as true as the Chinese would like you to believe or American industry is already profiting off of it.