China launches four remote-sensing satellites
China today successfully launched four new remote-sensing satellites, its Long March 2C rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China.
No word on where the rocket’s lower stages, which use very toxic hypergoic fuels, crashed.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
110 SpaceX
50 China
13 Russia
12 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 128 to 76, while SpaceX by itself still leads the entire world, including American companies, 110 to 94.
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China today successfully launched four new remote-sensing satellites, its Long March 2C rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China.
No word on where the rocket’s lower stages, which use very toxic hypergoic fuels, crashed.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
110 SpaceX
50 China
13 Russia
12 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 128 to 76, while SpaceX by itself still leads the entire world, including American companies, 110 to 94.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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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I just noticed that SpaceX has no less than three (3) launches planned from SLC-40 between today (Monday) and Saturday. Three launches in six days from the same pad. Just blows me away that they can turn around a launch pad that fast now.
And yet, if they want to be launching Starships every day, or even multiple times per day….this kind of thing is a necessary step in that direction.
Watching space documentaries in the 80’s and 90’s, I noticed a high percentage of engineers and technicians cited ‘Star Trek (TOG)’, as their inspiration for going technical. They wanted to make the the fantasy, real. The people doing the work today, know they are on the vanguard of Making It Real. As Richard M observed, even the mundane work of turning a launchpad is noteworthy. It’s happening.