- Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
I mean, technically, Russia is in Europe.
Also, as the guys at NASA said back in the day, it takes a thousand failures to create one working rocket. Don’t look at something halfway done and call it a failure.
edit = apparently I need to learn to read a map.
- mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
Don’t they do most of their launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan?
- CrateDane@feddit.dkEnglish1 year
Yeah, but they do have Plesetsk in the European part of Russia. Only used for unmanned launches.
1 yearRussia is like Turkey partial in europe. Whereas in Turkey its only part of Istanbul, Russia is up to the ural mountains.
- FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish1 year
Any pretty much everything east of Ural mountains was colonised by Russian slavs. The native indigenous peoples often do not consider themselves russian.
- CrateDane@feddit.dkEnglish1 year
It has a small part in Europe, west of the Ural river. The vast majority of it is in Asia, and I would largely consider it an Asian country.
- Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Schrödinger’s Country.
Sometimes it’s in Europe and sometimes it’s in Asia.
- 1 year
Not very orbital, then, is it. Jokes aside, rocketry is hard and I hope they gained the data to make it work next time.
- Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Yeah it’s pretty much a requirement for a new space company to crash their first rocket. At least that’s my default expectation. Space is crazy hard.
Did they forgot about the abort mission function?
That rocket went ballistic into the ground.Also, years of years of rockets (and missiles) development, and it’s still so difficult.
- deeferg@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
How dare they zoom back out but not show it falling to the ground.
I can always imagine the tight feeling in the engineers chests as they watch it start to go sideways.1
From here :
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.The rocket lifted off from the pad at 12.30 p.m local time (11.30am BST) … … explosion just after its launch from from the Andøya spaceport in the Arctic.
… exploded less than a minute after takeoff from Norway on Sunday … (( … on 3rd rock from the sun)).
- fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Article said they said 30 seconds would be a success. Not clear how long it stayed up? Clock froze at +18 seconds.
