China and Russia each successfully complete launches
Both China and Russia successfully completed launches in the past few hours.
First, shortly before midnight today (local time) Russia used its smaller version of its new Angara rocket to place a military satellite into orbit, launching this version of the rocket for the second time.
Next, using its solid rocket Long March 11, China on April 30th (local time) successfully launched five smallsats from an ocean platform in the East China Sea. This was the third launch from sea by the Long March 11.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
17 SpaceX
13 China
6 Russia
2 ULA
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. still leads China 24 to 13 in the national rankings. The U.S. also still leads all other nations and companies combined, 24 to 22.
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Both China and Russia successfully completed launches in the past few hours.
First, shortly before midnight today (local time) Russia used its smaller version of its new Angara rocket to place a military satellite into orbit, launching this version of the rocket for the second time.
Next, using its solid rocket Long March 11, China on April 30th (local time) successfully launched five smallsats from an ocean platform in the East China Sea. This was the third launch from sea by the Long March 11.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
17 SpaceX
13 China
6 Russia
2 ULA
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. still leads China 24 to 13 in the national rankings. The U.S. also still leads all other nations and companies combined, 24 to 22.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Detailed video about: “The Russian Aerospace Forces launched the Angara-1.2 launch vehicle into space”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBNt63XQBTQ
This sounds like a coordinated exercise.
Would it surprise you?
This began with Energia’s kerolox strap-on booster. That was a Ukrainian design….with an upper stage—it launched a spy sat fashioned after a Vostok hull….which is still made. That LV was known for that sat….Zenit.
The engine was the four-nozzle RD-170…an F-1 class engine. The all Russian Sunkar/Soyuz 5 is the new Zenit but fatter.
Cut in in half….you get the Atlas 5 RD-180…half strength. Even weaker is the RD-191.
That’s what Angara uses.
Instead of HLLVs, they figured use the EELV Rube Goldberg assembly model of launching a lot of weaker rockets like this.
Seeing that even Musk loves HLLVs, does the EELV approach look good to you now?
If so…Angara is your rocket. Enjoy.
This is Russia’s EELV
Day 36 and counting