Martian2
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So China had 2 failures in last 2 years according to your statistic. Assuming constant rate of chinese failures we expect China to have 10 failures over ten year period. That is 10 "normalized" launch failures per decade. How is it 10 times better? You are really some funny troll
Proof that "normalized" Russian civilian rocket failure rate is TEN times higher than China's
It is a fact that China had 1.5 civilian rocket launch failures in the last 15 years.
Since you're trying to be a smart aleck, I will prove to you that Russia's civilian rocket launch record is much worse than China's record.
Russian civilian rocket launch failures by year (see citation below).
2012: 1 failure (see post #1)
2011: 4 failures (2 R-7, 1 Proton, and 1 Rokot/Briz KM)
2010: 1 failure (1 Proton)
2009: 1 failure (1 R-7)
2008: 2 failures (1 Proton and 1 Zenit)
2007: 2 failures (1 Proton and 1 Zenit)
2006: 2 failures (1 Proton and 1 Dnepr)
2005: 3 failures (1 R-7, 1 Rokot KM, and 1 Volna)
2004: 2 failures (1 Zenit and 1 Tsyklon 3)
2003: 0 failure
2002: 2 failures (1 Soyuz and 1 Proton)
2001: 0 failure
2000: 1 failure (Tsyklon 3)
1999: 2 failures (2 Protons)
1998: 2 failuers (1 Zenit and 1 Tsyklon 3)
Total: 25 Russian rocket failures in last 15 years
Reference: http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/
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PtldM3 claimed that Russia had roughly twice the number of rocket launches than China in the last 15 years. Therefore, we divide the number of Russian rocket launch failures by two to "normalize" the failure rate.
Russian "normalized" rocket failures = 25 /2 = 12.5
Chinese rocket failures = 1.5
In conclusion, I have proven that Russia's civilian rocket launch failure rate is roughly 10 times higher than China's during the last 15 years.
This is a fair comparison, because China's rocket technology has matured in the last 15 years. Russia had an earlier start and can't claim their rocket technology is not mature.
The bottom line is that mature Chinese rocket technology is about ten times better than mature Russian rocket technology. Just look at the total number of Russian rocket failures on the list. It's obvious.