China successfully launches four satellites
China today completed its fifth launch so far this year, placing three reconnaissance satellites, plus one nanosat, into orbit.
The 2018 launch standings:
5 China
2 ULA
1 SpaceX
1 Rocket Lab
1 Japan
1 India
Two past major players, Europe and Russia, remain launchless. However, later today Arianespace hopes to complete its first launch. Russia meanwhile has its first launch off scheduled for before the end of the month.
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China today completed its fifth launch so far this year, placing three reconnaissance satellites, plus one nanosat, into orbit.
The 2018 launch standings:
5 China
2 ULA
1 SpaceX
1 Rocket Lab
1 Japan
1 India
Two past major players, Europe and Russia, remain launchless. However, later today Arianespace hopes to complete its first launch. Russia meanwhile has its first launch off scheduled for before the end of the month.
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 from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
Thank you, Robert, for the link to the live coverage of today’s Arianespace launch.
As I write this, Areanspace has no confirmation that the satellites separated from the upper stage. Contact was lost when the upper stage went over the horizon, and it was not regained at the other downrange stations.