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.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. Or you can buy it directly from the author and get an autographed copy.
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
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.