What's your country doing in space?
>>68574787
Ironically enough suporting the American private industry
http://aviationweek.com/space/mexico-buys-ride-moon
A lot of our space funds go to the ESA.
They're building a modern GPS system much more accurate than the current one though, should be operational around 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)
>>68574860
Thanks, Mexico!
>>68574907
As for UK specific projects, a space-plane that has been in development for quite a long time.
Not sure what SpaceX means for this though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
Spying
Russia just lost a Progress spacecraft a week ago. Which is slightly disturbing because that probably would not have been a survivable accident on a manned flight.
depositing whales on the moon
>>68574974
Russia only uses Soyuz-FG for manned missions. It never failed.
>>68575200
The December 1 Progress failure used an older Soyuz U booster, but they did lose a Progress last year on a Soyuz 2.
The thing to consider is that manned launches use the Soyuz FG, which has never failed to date, but they're planning soon to replace it with the Soyuz 2 due to its more modern avionics.
>>68574787
We are building our own glorious kosmodrom to not have to depend on Baikonur ever again. It's better than Plesetsk, but still too far north, and in the underdeveloped far eastern region to boot.
And some shit going down with Progress, apparently our space industry is doomed, we need to accept our lord and savior Elon and the fact that someday soon USA-Russia monopoly will change to USA-China.
japan's kounotori-6 (HTV6) supply vehicle is now approaching the ISS, it's gonna be captured by the leaf arm >>68574881 in hours.
>>68575335
Were they running out of doujinshi?
>>68575382
and water
>>68575309
>our space industry is doomed
Just like everything else in Russia.
>>68575438
Your legacy isn't great anon.
>The first ever primate astronaut was Albert, a rhesus monkey, who on June 11, 1948, rode to over 63 km (39 mi) on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space#United_States
I'm just excited that America will go to Mars under Trump's administration.
>>68575560
He'd have to serve 5-6 terms for that to be even feasible.
>>68575272
>>68575309
The Progress separated from the third stage prematurely, the third stage collided with it, damaged it, and sent the whole thing into a tailspin and explosion high over Tuva. They're still trying to figure out why it separated prematurely. Some people have pointed out that the Soyuz 18-1 crew got away from a high altitude malfunction in 1975, but the booster didn't ram into the spacecraft, nor was there an explosion. If a failure like Progress MS-04 had happened on a manned flight...oh dear.
>>68575612
We're going to make NASA great again, Mars colony in the first 100 days.
>>68575620
BTW, back when Soyuz 18-1 happened, it was a few months before ASTP and NASA insisted that the Soviets provide comprehensive details on the failure, which they did and then explained that it was an older booster model that wouldn't be used on ASTP.
The US government was skeptical of doing the mission because of the questionable safety record of the Soviet space program at the time. Although they were typically sketchy on the info they released, our intelligence agencies knew more than they thought we did. Some Congressmen at the time complained that they were worried that the Soviet half of the mission would malfunction in flight, ruining the mission or even worse, some problem occur when Apollo was docked with them.
>>68575508
>>68575620
the weird thing is, I only remember news about failed launches, and there was an awful lot of them in the last few years. Successful boring delivery mission to the ISS is almost never reported and if it is, everyone forgets in an hour. So I actually have no idea what % of our launches have failed.
>>68575508
lmfao
>>68575868
It's always easier to remember failures. Everyone remembers Challenger, but nobody remembers the 133 successful Shuttle flights.
>>68575508
KEK will brazilians ever recover
>>68574787
Had launched a Mars Orbiter in first try and discovered water on moon. Successfully tested Scramjet engine.
Will soon be launching Moon rover and a Sun probe.
>google about what the dutch do in space
>tracking water on the planet for water resilient cities
Fighting our biggest enemy.
>>68574787
Having the bronze medal
>>68578808
>Had launched a Mars Orbiter in first try
And then there's Russia...
>>68579005
Idk mate, I think Russian Space Agency was pretty good under the Soviets.
>>68575841
At that time (summer 1975) there had been 28 Soyuz launches and two had resulted in the death of the crew, several more were mission failures.
>>68579084
They got pretty good by the 80s, but the pre-1975 period was very spotty.
>>68579152
Yeah, Soviet Russia in late 70s to early 90s war the best Russia (as a nation), they achieved plenty of things, were inventing cool tech and long lasting weapons, were masters of nuclear tech, were respected and were kinda trustworthy. Not like the backstabbing good for nothing bastards like the present Russia.
>>68579262
>were respected and were kinda trustworthy
>inb4 Butthurt Belt shows up to dispute this claim
>>68579325
Soviet were many things mate, yeah they were pretty crazy too. They may be famous for betraying their own people but they never betrayed their allies.
Just testing if still banned.
>>68574787
trying to mine on asteroids
>>68583337
>he is looking down
>prays toward Makkah on the earth
your country is pretty much a non country if it hasn't a single successful sample return mission from an asteroid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission#List_of_sample-return_missions
>>68574787
receive your country
>tfw too intelligent to go to space
>>68585846
the earth is part of space after all
FINLAND YES!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalto-1
>>68585846
>tfw we have to rely on potential enemies to launch a military reconnaissance sat
JUST
Funny thing is we have this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_Corporation It's one of NASA's choices for their commercial spacecraft thing. Its owners are Turkish and they're even willing to work with us. If we weren't dumbfucks, we would give them more jobs here, eventually resulting in a space launch vehicle which will uncuck us into space. But that's what a country who likes nice things would do, not us.
>>68578808
>and discovered water on moon
Not how it works
>>68588399
Congrats bro. We'll be shooting our second cubesat soon.
T. Worked on the first one.