China launches remote sensing satellite
China today successfully launched a remote sensing satellite, its Long March 2D rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China. Video of the launch can be found here.
No word on where the rocket’s lower stages, using toxic hypergolic fuels, crashed inside China.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
39 SpaceX
15 China
6 Russia
4 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined 45 to 27, while SpaceX by itself still leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 39 to 33.
To my readers: Posting will be unpredictable for the next few days, as yesterday during a hike I fell, smashing my nose and cracking a rib. The nose is now pretty much fine, though it took a while for the bleeding to stop, but the rib makes doing almost anything somewhat painful. I shall see how the day goes.
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China today successfully launched a remote sensing satellite, its Long March 2D rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China. Video of the launch can be found here.
No word on where the rocket’s lower stages, using toxic hypergolic fuels, crashed inside China.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
39 SpaceX
15 China
6 Russia
4 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined 45 to 27, while SpaceX by itself still leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 39 to 33.
To my readers: Posting will be unpredictable for the next few days, as yesterday during a hike I fell, smashing my nose and cracking a rib. The nose is now pretty much fine, though it took a while for the bleeding to stop, but the rib makes doing almost anything somewhat painful. I shall see how the day goes.
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
Holy smokes! Sorry to hear about your injuries. I hope (and am sure all your loyal readers hope) you feel better soon.
Ouch! Get well quickly.
I pray you heal quick, and that the pain subsides.
I was wondering when you were going to put up a hiking/caving post, but not like that. Hopefully, that wasn’t the only memorable moment on the excursion.
Blair Ivey: I have retired from caving, partly due to age but mostly due to a lack of interest of doing anything with anyone involved. Remember, that crowd blackballed me illegally and with great vindictiveness when I refused to stop caving during the COVID panic.
Bob: Sorry to hear about your accident and hope you mend soon. Too bad Apollo wasn’t followed directly by Starship 50 years ago because then we’d be on Mars by now where hiking would not only be spectacular, but also enjoyed in just 1/3rd the gravity so climbing would be wayyyyy easier and the consequence of taking a spill a lot less painful! : )
Get well.
Yikes! Rest up and take it easy for a bit Mr. Z.
In prayerful agreement with sippin_bourbon. May God apply His grace upon you to relieve your pain and restore your health,
Robert,
I would lighten your mood with a joke, but laughing would hurt even more than breathing does, right now.
Get well soon.