China completes two launches yesterday
China successfully completed two launches yesterday from two different spaceports using two different rockets.
First a Long March 2C rocket launched 11 satellites as part of a civilian-based communications constellation, lifting off from it Xichang spaceport in southwest China. No word on where the rocket’s lower stages crashed, all of which use very toxic hypergolic fuels.
Next a Smart Dragon-3 rocket produced by the pseudo-company Landspace placed nine satellties into orbit, lifting off from a barge just off the coast of China. No information at all was released about the nine satellites. Furthermore, China’s state-run press made no mention of Landspace in its report, indicating once again what it thinks of these so-called private companies.
The 2024 launch race:
10 SpaceX
8 China
2 Iran
1 India
1 ULA
1 Japan
1 Rocket Lab
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
China successfully completed two launches yesterday from two different spaceports using two different rockets.
First a Long March 2C rocket launched 11 satellites as part of a civilian-based communications constellation, lifting off from it Xichang spaceport in southwest China. No word on where the rocket’s lower stages crashed, all of which use very toxic hypergolic fuels.
Next a Smart Dragon-3 rocket produced by the pseudo-company Landspace placed nine satellties into orbit, lifting off from a barge just off the coast of China. No information at all was released about the nine satellites. Furthermore, China’s state-run press made no mention of Landspace in its report, indicating once again what it thinks of these so-called private companies.
The 2024 launch race:
10 SpaceX
8 China
2 Iran
1 India
1 ULA
1 Japan
1 Rocket Lab
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Does anyone here think that the recent Tesla compensation shenanigans might lead Elon to focus less there and more on SpaceX?
David K asked: “Does anyone here think that the recent Tesla compensation shenanigans might lead Elon to focus less there and more on SpaceX?”
This hasn’t occurred to me, and I doubt it. However, it is a clear sign that government, even the judicial branch, cares far less about the success of electric vehicles and their ability to save the environment and the world and cares far more for punishing political enemies.
We had been taught in school that the reason for lifetime terms for Justices on the Supreme Court was to eliminate politics from this ever so important branch of government. What we see here is that this branch is now just as politicized as the (In)Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the Defense Department, the Interior Department, and several other departments of the United States government. They are all taking sides in politics and they are supporting the Democrat Party in the politics of this tyrannical nation, nee great nation.
China problems?
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/02/04/chinas-economic-downward-spiral-continues-apace-n2169643
Then, too, they are a more orderly people.