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Arianespace preps for first of up to 13 launches in French Guiana this year February 4, 2019 - Stephen Clark - Spaceflight Now The Hellas-Sat 4/SGS 1 communications satellite during encapsulation inside the Ariane 5’s payload fairing in French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo...

Looking forward to seeing LM-6 flying again this year. This is essentially an LV that can do 90% of the reference missions the ESA Vega does, while costing exactly half the funds to procure and field. As China is moving away from the DF based hypergolic era of their Space Program, LVs like the...

Shanghai space vehicle manufacturer targets 17 launches in 2019 by Andrew Jones — February 5, 2019 — Spacenews A Long March 6 lifting off at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Credit: Xinhua. The Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology is targeting the production of 17 launch vehicles to...

Actually, having a centralized discussion thread for this would be very cool. Not because the moon landings didn't happen, but because millions of people around the world (30 millions in the US alone) think they didn't. :wacko: Conspiracists have managed to sustain public interest in their...

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

You are again using though moralizations to describe what is essentially an execution of national interest. When I was writing that said execution had nothing to do with morality or legality I was not insinuating that it was a priori immoral or illegal. I was simply stating that it was based on...

If the above assumption is concrete, then why did they withdraw from the project?

India spends around the same amount of funds yearly on defense as Russia. And the Indian economy is around 70% bigger. I don't think that the size of a country's economy has any bearing here though. You are right btw. Russia will probably complete and field the Su-57 project, a lot of money and...

Truth of the matter is, the Israelis will keep moving more settlers into the West Bank, and will keep displacing the Palestinians that live there. And they will keep doing that, simply because they can. Morality or legality has nothing to do with it.

I think a little more about it, I think that this argument is a contradiction in itself. Moreover, if the Iranian State is indeed basing its persecution of dogs on religious dogma, then the "public danger to society" aspect of it is a little shaky, isn't it? I mean, humans have domesticated...

Floating Pontoons suspending the tunnel are pretty much a big bonus when dealing with Earthquakes, of which Norway typically doesn't get many - of note - anyway. Same goes for Tsunamis. In any case though, I think that projects like these tend to involve a lot of planning and simulation. They...

When you are the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East, solving problems like the above becomes a luxury that you can easily indulge in. The Norwegians are pretty cool people too (both literally and figuratively). :D

Ethnicity is not something that a government or other legal entity can define and/or regulate. Nationality and/or citizenship is. Under this agreement, the citizenship for the people there was decided to be Macedonian/citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia. With an explicit clarification...

Either do kph or do km/h. 160k mph means 160,000 miles per hour or 257,495kph. Who would do something like this? Throwing stones at a fast passing train is pretty dangerous.

@undertakerwwefan , @pakistanipower Both of you are right, and wrong at the same time. RAM means Radiation-Absorbent Material. In essence, the definition applies to both structural components made with said materials as well as materials that are added to the structure (coatings, paint etc)...

The Buran+Energia programs are extremely interesting subjects for discussion. The dissolution of the USSR coupled with a failure to "find a mission" is what prompted their cancellation in the end, but we could be literally filling pages and pages with the particulars. In any case though, these...

Most definitely not, but what actually spurred that question? Vostochny is being designed for Soyuz and Angara launches.

The long road to Vostochny: Inside Russia’s newest launch facility by Matthew Bodner — January 30, 2019 — Spacenews Russia has labored for years to bring its new Vostochny Cosmodrome online. In the early morning hours of Dec. 24, a key milestone was passed with the rollout of the spaceport's...

Here is a suggestion to the PDF team. The World Military Forum section right now lists 7 subforums. Military Forum Air Warfare Naval Warfare Land Warfare Equipment & Gear Military History & Tactics Technology & Science My suggestion would be to add an 8th subforum section. Currently, there is...

Riiiiiight...