China competes with Musk again, launching at sea became a new spaceflight battlefield - Video

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2022 is a very special year for China's aerospace industry, because its focus begun to turn to the distant sea. This year, China will build the world's largest specially designed ship for launching rockets into space. The ship is 162.5 meters long and 40 meters wide, about the size of a 0.55 million-ton destroyer.
It is China's first sea-launching ship and the largest in the world, so the international media has paid a lot attention to this matter. Secondly, in April of this year, China successfully launched a rocket at sea for the third time and put five satellites into orbit, proving that China's sea launch technology has matured. The significance of these two events is extraordinary. So far, 99% of China's rockets were launched from land, but now, this tradition is about to be broken. In the future, China will combine land and sea for space launches. It’s expected that China Aerospace will set off a huge wave at sea.
So, what are the advantages of launching at sea? Is there any benefit to building a sea launch vessel? Meanwhile, Musk's "floating spaceport" will also come out this year, compared with China's sea launch vessel, who is better? OK, that and more is exactly what we are going to talk about today.