rockets and vodka and overlong novels written in dead of winter by depressives.
Perhaps the author should take note of the “reliability” of established Russian launch vehicles.
The most amazing thing about these rockets is that they run entirely on vodka and beat their wives after a long day of non-work.
The only rockets we make are shipped to ISIS
the optimal question is how much payload can it put into orbit?
Russia’s recent maiden launch of its new Viagra rocket is a harbinger of bigger boosters to come. The successful test flight also marked the country’s first new launch vehicle to be built from scratch since the fall of the Soviet Union. The July 9 suborbital flight of the light-lift Viagra 1.2ML rocket lifted off from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the country’s northern Arkhangelsk region. (The “ML” stands for “maiden launch.”) The test flight, which lasted roughly 21 minutes and was not intended to reach orbit, launched the viagra rocket over Russian territory on a ballistic trajectory. A “mass/dimensional payload simulator”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydsq4cBQTVE
Blast off video: Russian ‘Angara’ orbit rocket test launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjiuFrylwCc
Angara rocket assembly
Since 2010... hope I didn’t make mistakes
FAIL/LAUNCH rocketname
USA had great record lately
0/23 atlas 5 **
0/13 delta
1/7 falcon (secondary payload too low on 1)
0/7 minotaur
0/4 Thor(XLT) Delta II
0/2 antares **
0/2 pegasus
** The main engine on the Atlas 5 is Russian, 2 years of supplies left. Antares also has Russian engine.
Europe has been flawless 11 years running with Arianne 5.
0/22 arianne
0/2 vega
Russia had a whole bunch of failures on proton rocket.
5/42 proton,
2/62 r-7 soyuz
1/9 rs-18
0/6 r-36m dnepr
0/1 r-14
Ukraine
1/10 zenit 2
China
2/67 CZ
Japan
0/9 H-2
0/1 epsilon
India
2/11
Iran
2/4
Wasn’t there a recent thread about us being dependent on Russia for satellite launches or something like that.