Rocket Launch SJ 10

Ghost Train

Chinese retrievable satellite launched today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnEFeca71Wo

The SJ-10 spacecraft will be launched on a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province. After 12 days in orbit, a re-entry capsule will return most samples to Earth, landing in Inner Mongolia. The short time frame is typical for space microgravity missions, Verga says. Experiments on the orbiter will continue for three more days, running on batteries for power.

Some details of experiments here
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/china-takes-microgravity-work-new-heights
http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/watch-new-retrievable-satellite-sj-10-successfully-launched-by-china_1873256.html

_Tombstone_

Seems nearly every launch lately has a SAT in it to see how much we're messing up the planet and now this one is going up with 6 little Oil cyclinders in it to study how the complex mess of molecules found in petroleum redistribute under intense pressures and uneven temperatures.

Heavier deposits end up rising, while lighter ones sink, so it'll make it easier to create computer models of oil reservoirs to get at.

Funded by ESA, NSSC, France’s Total oil company, and PetroChina.

How will ESA benefit?

Ghost Train

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Funded by ESA, NSSC, France’s Total oil company, and PetroChina.

How will ESA benefit?

Maybe it's a bit of bridge building with the Chinese, get to work on any sort of project builds a relationship that might be valuable in the future