China's Shenzhou-13 crew Rendezvous With China's Tianhe Space Station

According to the China Space Agency, the three taikonauts onboard the Shenzhou-13 spaceship have entered the core module of China's Tianhe Space Station on Saturday 16 October, 2021.

After Shenzhou-13 successfully completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, the Shenzhou-13 crew Zhai Zhigang,Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu entered the orbital capsule of Tianhe, marking the country's second crew to have entered China's Tianhe space station core cabin.

Just like everyone else when they first enter their new home, the first thing that the Shenzhou-13 crew did was to check out their sweet cozy bedrooms and connect to the Wi-Fi. A livestream video shows that Zhai, who was the first to enter, was so involved and excited to settle in that he was floating upside down in the air.

The three then set up the wireless headphones for space-Earth talks.

After a brief reporting about their safety to the ground control center, the crew have their very first lunch in their new home.

Among the three new residents, there are the country's first spacewalker Zhai Zhigang, first female taikonaut to have stepped inside its own space station Wang Yaping, and first taikonaut who was trained in an international space agency Ye Guangfu. They will stay in space for six months, double the time of the Shenzhou-12 crew.

They are expected to return to earth in April 2022, which means they will celebrate a special, unforgettable Chinese Lunar New Year in space.

They are tasked to carry out two to three extra-vehicular activities, better known as spacewalks.

Wang Yaping will participate in at least one spacewalk, becoming the first Chinese woman to achieve such a feat.

They are also expected to install transfer gears linking the big and small robotic arms and related suspension gears for future construction work.

The rendezvous and docking happened at 6:56 am on Saturday morning, six and a half hours after traveling on a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu Province.

Docked at the bottom of the Tianhe core cabin from a radial direction, the spacecraft safely and smoothly delivered the second batch of residents to China's space station.

A combination flight has been formed, consisting of the Tianhe core cabin at the center, and Shenzhou-13 manned craft, Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 cargo craft on the side.

China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) has designed a new rendezvous path and circling flight mode to support fast-docking in the radial direction.

As beautiful as the "space waltz" was, it was a lot more difficult than the front and rear docking with the Tianhe core cabin as the Shenzhou-12, Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 missions had exercised.

For front and rear dockings, there is a 200-meter holding point for the craft, enabling them to maintain a stable attitude in orbit even when engines are not working. However, radial rendezvous does not have such a midway stopping point, and it requires continuous attitude and orbit control.

During the radial rendezvous, the spacecraft needs to turn from level flight to vertical flight with a wide range of attitude maneuvers, posing tough challenges for the "eyes" of the craft to see the target in time and ensure that the "eyes" will not be disturbed by complex lighting changes.

The success of this new docking method would be another sign of China's new space technology capabilities. 

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Is Singapore a US colony ?

  Can the US decide to grant permission to a third country to use Singapore facility ?

Australian and US military forces should integrate further under a “collective deterrence strategy” aimed at China’s rise, giving Canberra access to American operations in the Philippines, Singapore and Guam, a new report argues.

The allies should look at new “combined access arrangements” among a number of ways to strengthen “integrated deterrence” against Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the region, according to the report released by the Sydney-based United States Studies Centre on Friday.

“Greater Australian access to US operating locations in Guam, the Philippines and Singapore could significantly augment the Australian Defence Force’s strategic footprint,” says the report authored by Australia’s former consul general in Honolulu, Jane Hardy.

Washington operates a number of major military installations on Guam, a US territory, and has access to facilities in Singapore and the Philippines under a pair of security pacts. 

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USS Connecticut - Another American white lie?

The accident involving the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut has been reported all over the media. It was a small accident. They did not know what the submarine hit because is was really a small accident. Could be a whale or a small ship or a floating stone in the ocean. And only a few soldiers suffered minor injuries, nothing serious at all. Everything would be fine. 

After all, after 5 days or how many days, how did the nuclear submarine crawled back to Guam, no one knew about it. It was such a small matter that no one knew how it happened, where it happened. The submarine would be repaired in Guam and it would take only a few days and it would be up and snooping around in the South China Sea again.

Funny, it was reported somewhere that the repair facilities in Guam were inadequate to repair the minor damages to the submarine. And the submarine could not survive the journey across the Pacific Ocean back to the repair yards in the USA.

And there were some reports that not only 13 sailors were injured, but more than 30. And the injuries were very serious in some cases.

What really happened to the Connecticut? How many sailors were hurt and how many seriously? How many died? How long would this submarine be out of action and be laid in the repair yard in the US, if they are able to drag it home?

There seems to be a lot of questions waiting to be answered. The accident, so minor, and only 13 sailor suffered light injuries should not be anything to worry about. Is it? Who provided all the information about the Connecticut and the accident?

What do you think? How much of the news coming out from the Americans were white lies? We know they are masters of spreading white lies. Washing powder could become weapon of mass destruction. A mountain can be turned into a mole hill. 

Is it so easy to bang into such a sophisticated submarine when nothing could get to within 10 km without being detected?  Most cars today also can avoid accident with cameras and software embedded.

COVID-19 Singapore: Are The Generals Of Any Help To Our Fight Against The Coronavirus?

 
To me, the generals are practically useless. These are my reasons why I said so:

1. They don't even realise that the Covid-19 Pandemic is a Virus War against Humanity, until more than one and a half years later, it took a non-military geberal Ong Ye Kung, to realise and said so - that the Pandemic "is like a war".

2. They didn't even have any tactical plan to start with. So, don't have to talk about stratrgic plans.

3. They didn't even organise the country for war. They just resorted to "monitoring closely" and than reacted, and most of the times, reacted too little too late.

4. Always waiting for hindsight. Leaders plan ahead, using their vision and wisdom, which they have none. Followers wait for hindsight and orders. Without hindsight and orders, they are lost; they simply do not know which direction to go. They simply cannot work.

5. They didn't lead the charge against the enemy (coronavirus) by example. They hid inside their ivory towers and pretended that they were all there for you, uttering: "No one will be left behind". But in reality, on the ground, many have been left in the wayside, hospitals and homes to suffer and to die.

6. They didn't have the will power, the spirit, the courage, the patience and the resolve to fight on until victory is achieved. Halfway on the march towards the foothills of the counterattack, they put up the white flag and simply surrendered to the Enemy's Special Forces, the Covid-19 Delta Variants.

7. They are only good in taking umbrage and giving orders, pushing their subordinates down the gutters, while they themselves grab the honor, prestige and rewards.

Such are the fast-tracked, incubated, inexperienced generals of papers, not of deeds, that we are having?

I hope I am absolutely wrong.


SSO.

COVID-19 Singapore: Prolonged Entrenched Political Power Breeds Ills To Party And Society

 

A regime that has held power for far too long (more than 5 decades) is bound to become arrogant, cocky, over-confident and self-assured. Never made mistakes?

Over the past 20 months or so, we can clearly see that the Millionaires' Multi-Ministry Elephant Task Forced (Into Our Throats) is devoid of common sense and proper forward planning. Every policy, protocol and measure is reactionary, after-thoughts, based on hindsight instead of foresight.

When a group of highly educated and intelligent persons refused to use common sense, they resort to conjectures, theories, double-edged fork-tongue advice from non-experts masquerading as experts, fancy dreams and fantasies.

Outsiders can see through their blunders and mistakes but they themselves couldn't. This is the present state of deep shit affairs.

Moreover, with a ruling party filled with people who have always excelled in their academic results, and acquired top scholarships, never tasted failures nor downfalls, and never admit mistakes (one cannot learn and make corrections if one does not identify and admit mistakes first), how can they see or realise their own blunders and mistakes?

Furthermore, with the habitual and strong desire to hear only sweet music to their ears, and the frequent and incorrigible urge towards self-praise, there is very little hope that they will be able to hear or discern the repeated suggestions, recommendations and warnings given by the public in the various social media platforms.

However, that doesn't mean that we should give up and stop our unpaid, free, efforts to continue to alert them and warn them. This is our country and we are part of whether that happens to our country.

We are the affected party on the ground, at ground zero. They are at cloud 9, high above in their comfortable and grand six-stars ivory towers. Usually, the communications wave get lost in the wavelengths that travel from the bottom to the top because there exists too many layers of filters, and safety and security protections surrounding them.

Millionaires are afraid to die.

Millionaires with unfettered powers are only afraid of ghosts - the three ghosts of The Christmas Carol - of past, present and future, and nothing else.

Hope the three ghosts will visit them soon, to kick them in the ass and wake them up to carry out the long delayed necessary changes to themselves and to their relationship with society.


Early Merry Christmas!


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