#SpaceX: China space operation in Antarctica. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
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#SpaceX: China space operation in Antarctica. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-to-build-space-ground-stations-in-antarctica/
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| 0:56.0 | Bob, a satellite ground station where for China? |
| 1:00.0 | In Antarctica, they have, or they're going to build ground stations for use by their ocean observation satellites. |
| 1:09.0 | At least that's what they claimed. |
| 1:11.0 | I should point out that the reporter claiming this has now been deleted from the state-run press. |
| 1:15.0 | So maybe they didn't want anyone to see this. |
| 1:18.0 | China has a tendency to surveil, do military, even in its commercial or in its science research. |
| 1:27.0 | So they have a base in the East Antarctica as most nations do, and they've installed, or going to install, |
| 1:36.0 | ground-based antennas to communicate with satellites in orbit. |
| 1:40.0 | Now, the location is such that mostly it is not surveillance satellites that go there, |
| 1:45.0 | but there's no surveillance of Antarctica, Antarctica, for military purposes, for science purposes. |
| 1:51.0 | Yes, but if you've got a military surveillance polar orbiting satellite that goes over all the parts of the world, |
| 1:56.0 | this would be a great place to download the data. |
| 1:59.0 | And so who knows they're doing it though China? They like to spy. |
| 2:03.0 | Youma County, once a spaceport, have they got a customer about? |
| 2:07.0 | Well, no, and I'm not sure they'll get it. This is a bunch of stories about spaceports. |
| 2:12.0 | Youma in Arizona wants to build a spaceport. They supposedly put $250 million, a quarter of a billion dollars aside, |
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