Japan launches GPS-type satellite
Japan successfully launched a government GPS-type satellite, using the H-2A rocket that is built by Mitsubishi.
This was Japan’s first launch in 2021. It appears this year it will not match last year’s launch total of four.
The leaders in 2021 launch race remains unchanged:
37 China
23 SpaceX
17 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
4 ULA
4 Arianespace (Europe)
China still leads the U.S. 37 to 36 in the national rankings.
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"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
Japan successfully launched a government GPS-type satellite, using the H-2A rocket that is built by Mitsubishi.
This was Japan’s first launch in 2021. It appears this year it will not match last year’s launch total of four.
The leaders in 2021 launch race remains unchanged:
37 China
23 SpaceX
17 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
4 ULA
4 Arianespace (Europe)
China still leads the U.S. 37 to 36 in the national rankings.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Such a beautiful launch picture at the link. Worth posting here wrt Bob’s aesthetic standards.