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.
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
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