Russia’s Rockot launches ESA Earth resource satellite
Despite numerous political issues, including opposition from Canadian Inuit officials, Russia’s re-purposed ICBM Rockot today successfully launched a European Earth resource satellite.
The other problems were related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, since the avionics for the rocket were made by a Ukrainian company.
I must add that this launch puts Russia ahead of SpaceX once again in the race to launch the most in 2017, 16 to 15.
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Despite numerous political issues, including opposition from Canadian Inuit officials, Russia’s re-purposed ICBM Rockot today successfully launched a European Earth resource satellite.
The other problems were related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, since the avionics for the rocket were made by a Ukrainian company.
I must add that this launch puts Russia ahead of SpaceX once again in the race to launch the most in 2017, 16 to 15.
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 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
Its good to see that Russia appears to have their problems under control and it is really amazing to see SpaceX achieving a high launch rate after their setbacks. That SpaceX is doing this while also developing new engines, rockets, capsules, expanding facilities, and other stuff we don’t know about, it must be causing the rest of the industry a lot of concern but maybe also some motivation.