Russia launches new GPS-type satellite
Russia today successfully launched another one of its GPS-type Glonass satillites, using its Soyuz-2 rocket lifting off from its Plesetsk spaceport.
This was the first launch of this type of satellite in more than five years due to an inability to get parts because of U.S. sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In response, the Russian government instituted an export-replacement program aimed at providing indigenously produced electronics for the nation’s industries. The effort was complicated by the need in some cases to build entire factories virtually from scratch.
Around 2016, ISS Reshetnev, the prime developer of GLONASS satellites, began re-designing the GLONASS-K variant for the Russian-built components. It is unclear to what extent the original GLONASS-K series relied on foreign components, but the new batch of spacecraft did not come out of assembly until the end of the 2010s.
The leaders in the 2020 launch race:
26 China
18 SpaceX
12 Russia
4 ULA
4 Europe
The U.S. continues to lead China 28 to 26 in the national rankings.
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Russia today successfully launched another one of its GPS-type Glonass satillites, using its Soyuz-2 rocket lifting off from its Plesetsk spaceport.
This was the first launch of this type of satellite in more than five years due to an inability to get parts because of U.S. sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In response, the Russian government instituted an export-replacement program aimed at providing indigenously produced electronics for the nation’s industries. The effort was complicated by the need in some cases to build entire factories virtually from scratch.
Around 2016, ISS Reshetnev, the prime developer of GLONASS satellites, began re-designing the GLONASS-K variant for the Russian-built components. It is unclear to what extent the original GLONASS-K series relied on foreign components, but the new batch of spacecraft did not come out of assembly until the end of the 2010s.
The leaders in the 2020 launch race:
26 China
18 SpaceX
12 Russia
4 ULA
4 Europe
The U.S. continues to lead China 28 to 26 in the national rankings.
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Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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In response, the Russian government instituted an export-replacement program aimed at providing indigenously produced electronics for the nation’s industries.
Are the lessons to learn here for the U.S. as we look to decouple from China?
@mpthompson
Apparently not any good ones.
“Import replacement” was popular 50 years ago when there still existed general industries and queuing voting general workers outside of their doors. And expert engineers in the Western World worried that:
“- Oh yeah, perhaps you can suddenly do this what I learned from my parents and on the greatest universities. Perhaps you there in Argentina suddenly can “replace” me with your do-it-yourself-stuff? I am really afraid now. But not much.”
It doesn’t work like that today with extreme specialization, especially in extreme technologies. Maybe in Russia today it does, I don’t think so but I don’t know. Let me try to think now. Kleptocracy. Home made. Hmm. I actually do know that it won’t work!