WAR BREAKING China Successfully Tests 2nd Orbital, Nuclear-Capable, Hypersonic Missile

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I would be very interested to know where the Chinese space station was in relation to both test missile flights. It could be as simple as using their space station to observe the missiles when they're not under observation by Chinese ground and naval stations, or it might be that there was a test hand-off of missile control to the space station for a bit then handed back to Chinese ground control (maybe as a backup-to-the-backup kind of thing). Keep in mind that anything going mach 25 is generating a hell of a lot of plasma as it plows through the atmosphere, and as far as I know even today there's a loss of communications with returning manned spacecraft during that phase of the flights. The U.S. resolved its loss of communications with manned missions on the far side of the planet by launching the TDRSS, and the Soviets (and presumably now the Russians) resolved their loss of communications by sending out naval vessels to the far corners of the world during manned missions. Who knows what the Chinese have developed to resolve similar loss of communications now that they often have a manned presence in orbit.