China’s Kuaizhou-1A solid-fueled rocket launches four weather satellites
China today successfully completed its first launch in 2024, its Kuaizhou-1A solid-fueled rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China carrying four weather satellites.
No information was released about where the rocket’s lower stages crashed inside China. Nor did China’s state run press provide any information on the payloads, other than to say they will most be “used to provide commercial meteorological data services.”
The 2024 launch race:
2 SpaceX
1 India
1 China
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China today successfully completed its first launch in 2024, its Kuaizhou-1A solid-fueled rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China carrying four weather satellites.
No information was released about where the rocket’s lower stages crashed inside China. Nor did China’s state run press provide any information on the payloads, other than to say they will most be “used to provide commercial meteorological data services.”
The 2024 launch race:
2 SpaceX
1 India
1 China
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.
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Rocket booster falls from space and crashes in Chinese village
Fri, 5 January 2024 at 4:00 am GMT-8
The China National Space Administration successfully launched two satellites into orbit on December 26. But terrifying footage captured the moment one of the side boosters used to launch the rocket came crashing back down to Earth, exploding in a forest area in extremely close proximity to the homes of horrified villagers.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rocket-booster-falls-space-crashes-120000146.html
James Street: I posted that video more than a week ago. See the launch post on December 26, 2023.
What China does in this matter of falling stages is terrible, but we should not magnify it by making one event appear to be many.