{"id":83323,"date":"2018-10-05T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/rocket-report-spacex-targeted-chinese-rocket-scientist-goes-viral-sls-slips"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:21","slug":"rocket-report-spacex-targeted-chinese-rocket-scientist-goes-viral-sls-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/rocket-report-spacex-targeted-chinese-rocket-scientist-goes-viral-sls-slips","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Report: SpaceX targeted, Chinese rocket scientist goes viral, SLS slips?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does Chinese commercial space rival government<\/strong>? A story has gone viral in China about the departure of a rocket scientist named Zhang Xiaoping from his job as deputy director of rocket design at the state-owned Xi\u2019an Aerospace Propulsion Research Institute. He was rumored to be helping lead the design of China\u2019s heavy Long March 9 rocket<\/a>. According to the South China Morning Post<\/em><\/a>, a document posted on a Chinese social media site described how Zhang was \u201cmost crucial to the development process,\u201d and had \u201cirreplaceable\u201d talents. The document argued that Zhang\u2019s departure could affect China\u2019s race to send people to the Moon.<\/p>\n

Gone to LandSpace<\/em> \u2026 Zhang is rumored to have taken a research position at the private aerospace firm LandSpace (cited above), earning 10 times his previous salary of 120,000 yuan (US$17,400) per year. This is an interesting development, although we have few hard facts from our Western vantage point. However, the Zhang kerfuffle does suggest that some of the same tensions we\u2019re seeing between public and private space in the United States also exist in China with its emerging commercial space market.<\/p>\n

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Does Chinese commercial space rival government? A story has gone viral in China about the departure of a rocket scientist named Zhang Xiaoping from his job as deputy director of rocket design at the state-owned Xi\u2019an Aerospace Propulsion Research Institute. He was rumored to be helping lead the design of China\u2019s heavy Long March 9 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83400,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83323\/revisions\/83400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}