rockets
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Well, This Japanese Private Rocket Launch Certainly Could Have Gone Better
Saturday’s test of the MOMO-2 unmanned rocket, which was scheduled to be the first privately funded Japanese rocket to reach space, went very poorly for Interstellar Technologies’ Takafumi Horie, a convicted securities fraudster who a 2014 Financial Times profile dubbed “Japan’s enfant terrible”. Footage of the event showed the one-and-a-quarter-ton rocket disastrously failing mere seconds…
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China’s First Private Space Rocket Launch Ever Was Last Week
OneSpace Technologies conducted the first private rocket launch in Chinese history last week, firing off the 9m OS-X from a platform in northwest China on Thursday, according to CNN.
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Watch SpaceX Launch 10 Satellites Into Orbit
SpaceX just launched 10 satellites into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using a Falcon 9 booster. And thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can watch the entire launch online.
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SpaceX Payload Fairing Survives Despite Missing Recovery Net By ‘a Few Hundred Metres’
Early today, a Falcon 9 rocket delivered the PAZ radio communications satellite, along with a pair of SpaceX-owned internet satellites, to low-Earth orbit. It was an otherwise routine launch and deployment, save for the attempt to recover the rocket’s payload fairing — a feat that’s never been tried before.