China launches four satellites
China early this morning successfully launched four satellites, its Long March 2D rocket lifting off from its Taiyuan spaceport in the northwest of China.
No further information about the satellites was released. Nor did China’s state-run press provide any information about where the rocket’s lower stages, using toxic hypergolic fuels, crashed within the country.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
52 SpaceX
22 China
7 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the world combined in successful launches, 59 to 35, while SpaceX by itself still leads the entire world, including other American companies, 52 to 42.
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China early this morning successfully launched four satellites, its Long March 2D rocket lifting off from its Taiyuan spaceport in the northwest of China.
No further information about the satellites was released. Nor did China’s state-run press provide any information about where the rocket’s lower stages, using toxic hypergolic fuels, crashed within the country.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
52 SpaceX
22 China
7 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the world combined in successful launches, 59 to 35, while SpaceX by itself still leads the entire world, including other American companies, 52 to 42.
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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.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
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Not a launch but good news for China’s moon lander. It fired its rocket and reduced speed so it is now in lunar orbit. Don’t know if you covered it. Here is story on Ukrainian websitse
https://ukranews.com/en/news/1004462-chang-e-6-enters-lunar-orbit-after-near-moon-braking
As we review the latest SpaceX numbers, the Left celebrates Bezos. I believe Bezos could announce he is re-starting the dormant horseshoe industry and the Left would praise his entrepreneurship. SpaceX has revolutionized access to space, and if President Trump returns to the Oval Office, SpaceX could advance by leaps and bounds. Even before the Super Heavy booster becomes reusable, it can, today, move TONS of materials into orbit. We used to celebrate entrepreneurs who made billions while making incredible advances. Some day we will again.