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China quietly tested its first inflatable space module in orbit (spacenews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflight

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Wth does "quietly tested" even mean lol

[–] threelonmusketeers 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I think that they didn't announce it at the time of. We learned of the test only from a recent statement, several weeks after the mission took place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Yep. Why boast about stuff when you can simply experiment and learn.

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