China’s Long March 3B rocket launches “experimental satellite”
China today successfully used its Long March 3B rocket to launch from an interior spaceport what its state-run press labeled an “experimental satellite.”
No word on where the rocket’s strap-on side boosters or first stage crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
62 China
60 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 84 to 62 in the national rankings, but trails the entire world combined 94 to 84.
This launch cements for China the top spot in launches over SpaceX, since SpaceX only has one more launch planned in 2022, scheduled for just before midnight tonight.
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China today successfully used its Long March 3B rocket to launch from an interior spaceport what its state-run press labeled an “experimental satellite.”
No word on where the rocket’s strap-on side boosters or first stage crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
62 China
60 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 84 to 62 in the national rankings, but trails the entire world combined 94 to 84.
This launch cements for China the top spot in launches over SpaceX, since SpaceX only has one more launch planned in 2022, scheduled for just before midnight tonight.
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
As expected.
It’s amazing how in one year, we went from China and the USA being neck and neck in launches, to one where SpaceX and China are neck and neck; with the US in a comfortable counting all the non-SpaceX launches.
Remember when The Soviet Union was in Chinas place?
I can not wait for the Chinese Democratic revolution.
That will take an opening of the internet to the Chinese people. And then one good economic disaster.
Maybe next year…
These things always seem years away until they just happen all of a sudden.