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Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch has announced a partnership with e-commerce platform and Alibaba-owned landfill generator Taobao
to make deliveries via rocket around the world in just one hour — and to be entirely honest, the concept is so outlandish that we can't quite tell if it's an early April Fool's joke., posted to Chinese social media platform WeChat on March 31, details a new rocket dubbed "Yuanxing-1" that's designed to launch up to ten tons of cargo inside a 120 cubic meter container into orbit.
An animation shows a package being loaded into a rocket and shooting into space and then back down, spending just 25 minutes to traverse all of China before its cargo is emptied into a waiting van.But whether it's feasible, let alone economically viable, to make global rocket deliveries — especially if we're talking about the bottom-shelf cheap plastic junk that Alibaba's known for selling in huge quantities — remains dubious at best..
To pick one glaring example, no Chinese entity has yet pulled off the Elon Musk-led company's party trick of landing one of its rockets after launch.over the last few years, including 17 commercial launches and just one failure out of 67 orbital launches total last year, perBut whether making global deliveries for Taobao will ever become a profitable venture remains to be seen. Even delivery by drones has failed to take off.
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