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2023-02-17 China-Japan-Koreas

How the West May Have Helped Build China's Spy Balloons

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-17 10:56|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

This example of a Western aerostat company cooperating with PLA-linked organizations is, however, not unique. In 2018, the Texas-based company Nanoracks signed a partnership agreement with the China's Kuang-Chi Science company to produce the Traveler series of near-space balloons. In the words of Nanoracks, the Traveler balloon would have various uses “from ecological and terrestrial observation to satellite deployment and space research.”

The Nanoracks Team

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-17 11:13|| 2023-02-17 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone forget Clinton making satellite and launch platform information available to them?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-17 12:23|| 2023-02-17 12:23|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Who remembers "Communism With a Smiley Face"? Who's smiling now?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-02-17 15:29|| 2023-02-17 15:29|| Front Page Top

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