Soyuz launches military satellite, despite failure earlier this week
A Russian Soyuz rocket today successfully launched a military satellite, despite the launch failure from improper software earlier this week.
The reason they launched this Soyuz was because of two reasons. First, it was not using the Fregat upper stage that had had the incorrect programming. Second, it launched from Plesetsk, a Russian spaceport they have used since the beginning of the space age. The failure launched from the new spaceport at Vostochny, with software that had not been updated for that spaceport.
This launch widens the Russian lead in successful launches over SpaceX for 2018. The U.S. however still leads handily overall.
27 United States
18 Russian
16 SpaceX
13 China
A Russian Soyuz rocket today successfully launched a military satellite, despite the launch failure from improper software earlier this week.
The reason they launched this Soyuz was because of two reasons. First, it was not using the Fregat upper stage that had had the incorrect programming. Second, it launched from Plesetsk, a Russian spaceport they have used since the beginning of the space age. The failure launched from the new spaceport at Vostochny, with software that had not been updated for that spaceport.
This launch widens the Russian lead in successful launches over SpaceX for 2018. The U.S. however still leads handily overall.
27 United States
18 Russian
16 SpaceX
13 China