China launches Egyptian Earth observation satellite
China successfully launched an Egyptian Earth observation satellite on December 4, 2023, its Long March 2C rocket lifting off from its Jiquan spaceport in northwestern China.
The satellite was built in Egypt with Chinese assistence, and is designed to study water and land resources for Egypt.
No word on where the rocket’s lower stages, which use toxic hypergolic fuels, crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
89 SpaceX
54 China
16 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise still leads China in successful launches, 101 to 54, and the entire world combined 101 to 86. SpaceX by itself now leads the entire world (excluding other American companies) 89 to 86.
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China successfully launched an Egyptian Earth observation satellite on December 4, 2023, its Long March 2C rocket lifting off from its Jiquan spaceport in northwestern China.
The satellite was built in Egypt with Chinese assistence, and is designed to study water and land resources for Egypt.
No word on where the rocket’s lower stages, which use toxic hypergolic fuels, crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
89 SpaceX
54 China
16 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise still leads China in successful launches, 101 to 54, and the entire world combined 101 to 86. SpaceX by itself now leads the entire world (excluding other American companies) 89 to 86.
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
Mr. Zimmermann: Why do you even care if something falls on someone’s head in China?
Questioner inquired:
“Mr. Zimmermann: Why do you even care if something falls on someone’s head in China?”
Not addressed to me, but, hey, it’s a free Forum.
Because they are human beings, and against the Universe, there aren’t a lot of us. This is all we have. China has an unnecessarily trashy launch industry. Maybe you might get worked up about that injustice.