Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches nine smallsats
Japan today successfully launched nine small satellites into orbit using its smallsat Epsilon rocket.
The article at the link provides a detailed description of all the satellites, which are either testing new technology or were built by college students for educational purposes, including a satellite built by Vietnamese engineers.
Epsilon itself has only flown five times since its first launch in 2013, which suggests its price is high and thus it does not attract many customers.
This was Japan’s second launch in 2021, which means it does not make the leader board. The leaders in the 2021 launch race remains as follows:
41 China
23 SpaceX
18 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
4 ULA
4 Europe (Arianespace)
China still leads the U.S. 41 to 36 in the national rankings.
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Japan today successfully launched nine small satellites into orbit using its smallsat Epsilon rocket.
The article at the link provides a detailed description of all the satellites, which are either testing new technology or were built by college students for educational purposes, including a satellite built by Vietnamese engineers.
Epsilon itself has only flown five times since its first launch in 2013, which suggests its price is high and thus it does not attract many customers.
This was Japan’s second launch in 2021, which means it does not make the leader board. The leaders in the 2021 launch race remains as follows:
41 China
23 SpaceX
18 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
4 ULA
4 Europe (Arianespace)
China still leads the U.S. 41 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 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
Wow, China has really put their foot on the gas here to close out the year. IIRC we were ahead most of the year until recently. Time will tell if this trend will continue, which I think it just might.
They fund their pad-building activities properly instead of underming them. What SpaceX as a company has in go-fever, China has as a nation….mask sales alone allows them to use expendables and it not be an issue. They are as we were in the middle of the last century.