{"id":134327,"date":"2025-08-11T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134327"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:43:19","slug":"chinas-new-launcher-is-aimed-at-space-debris-can-it-also-be-used-as-a-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134327","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new launcher is aimed at space debris. Can it also be used as a weapon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have unveiled a projectile launcher for use in space \u2013 a device designed to remove dangerous debris orbiting the Earth but with potential to also be used as a weapon.<br \/>\nThe compact and stealthy device draws on the principle of gunpowder propulsion dating back to 9th century China, but brings it into the new space age.<br \/>\nIt was jointly developed by aerospace engineers in Nanjing, Shanghai and Shenyang and unveiled last month in the peer-reviewed Chinese journal Acta Aeronautica et&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3321437\/chinas-new-stealth-launcher-aimed-space-debris-can-it-also-be-used-weapon?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have unveiled a projectile launcher for use in space \u2013 a device designed to remove dangerous debris orbiting the Earth but with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}