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[Screamer_2]

Chinese are getting pretty impressive these days, but given that there will never be a sensitive US/Western payload flying on a Chinese rocket, SpaceX will always have a baseline level of pretty high demand.

Do you know what are the Chinese doing that requires so many launches?

 

[The Un-Clit]

Do you know what are the Chinese doing that requires so many launches?

Lotsa spy and communications satellites, building onto and re-supplying Tiangong, testing rockets for a manned moon landing before America can get back first, and secret military sketchy shit that we plebs will never know about.

 

[Gimmick Account]

Problem there is if one goes wrong, you're in for a real bad time once it decays from the required low orbit or fails to propel itself to a higher parking orbit when station keeping thrusters get low on fuel.

Yeah, well, weapons of war have certain handing requirements.
I assume you'd deorbit them over an ocean before it gets to that point like you would anything else end-of-life, or maintain them with your secret shuttles like you do with a keyhole sat, or whatever.