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2025-05-13 03:38:51 UTC

Dr. John Barentine FRAS on Nostr: Evidence that some of the Chinese #Qianfan satellites are tumbling and presumably no ...

Evidence that some of the Chinese #Qianfan satellites are tumbling and presumably no longer under control. "All six of the tumbling #spacecraft are from Launch 2. As noted in Section 2, those satellites were made by a different manufacturer than the spacecraft in Qianfan launches 1, 3 and 4. indicates that all the tumbling spacecraft have failed."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07194

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