China Long March 4C rocket launches satellite
According to China’s state-run press, the country launched an “earth observation” satellite today using its Long March 4C rocket.
The satellite is part of a series of similar satellites launched by civilian agencies ostensibly for civilian use. The rocket was launched from an interior spaceport. No word on whether its first stage carried grid fins or parachutes to control its landing in the interior of China, or whether it crashed near habitable areas.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
30 China
21 SpaceX
13 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. lead over China in the national rankings has now narrowed to 32 to 30.
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According to China’s state-run press, the country launched an “earth observation” satellite today using its Long March 4C rocket.
The satellite is part of a series of similar satellites launched by civilian agencies ostensibly for civilian use. The rocket was launched from an interior spaceport. No word on whether its first stage carried grid fins or parachutes to control its landing in the interior of China, or whether it crashed near habitable areas.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
30 China
21 SpaceX
13 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. lead over China in the national rankings has now narrowed to 32 to 30.
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
Not sure if y’all are as geeky as me, but I’ve take up the hobby of searching the early evening me early morning sky’s for the objects like boosters, satellites and the space stations. This is a great site for following that stuff and there are numerous visible objects each day. In particular, I’ve noticed the Chinese space station – Tiangong – appearing a bit brighter recently. I’m guessing as it grows larger and adds reflective surface, that trend will continue.
https://www.heavens-above.com/?lat=33.9562&lng=-83.988&loc=Lawrenceville&alt=344&tz=EST
If you use the site, just set it up for your last/lon. Pretty straightforward if even I can set it.
Welcome to the hobby Gary! That is a good site.
I have been observing since 1986. I use to have to call the National Space Society hotline for the visible times for Salyut-7 and later Mir. I later subscribed to a service that sent the keplers by floppy disk for my Commodore-64. This was the hobby that got me into Amateur Radio, since I wanted to not only see, but hear the objects in the sky.