[Seruzawa]

A Chinese rocket exploding. What a surprise.

At least the fuel tank wasn’t full of water like their nuke forces.

[Bookshelf]

Either Indonesia or China has a short memory (or both):
Serious violence against Chinese people has occurred at irregular intervals since 1740, when the soldiers of the Dutch East India Company and other ethnic groups from Batavia killed up to 10,000 people of Chinese descent during the Chinezenmoord. The worst outbreaks took place in 1946-49 during the Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch rule. [More than a million Chinese were killed.] There were significant outbreaks in the early 1960s. Violence against Chinese also took place in 1965 after the failed coup attempt during anti-communist purges... In May 1998, many Chinese businesses were burned down and many Chinese girls and women were brutally raped and murdered.

[Rockingham]

Due to clear skies, from my yard at home in the Orlando area I was able to see the successful launch of the Indonesian Merah Putih 2 satellite this afternoon. The technology and skill of the Space-X operation is amazing, a private sector operation with reusable boosters making access to space cheap, convenient, and reliable. The Space Coast economy is booming, and it looks to be a permanent thing instead of the boom-bust cycle of NASA's programs.

Meanwhile, the Lockheed-Martin and Boeing government contract duopoly (and China) struggle with delays, technological snags, and failures in their launchers, satellites, and manned programs. The remarkable but badly flawed Space Shuttle was a technological dead end, but, courtesy of Space-X and Elon Musk, we are now developing the means to have a permanent manned presence in orbit, on the Moon, and on Mars.

[mazz44]

It is time to realize the big Con that is Elon Musk. Besides the fact that he is highly subsidized, he continues the big lie. For instance,

The thrust from ANY rocket will cease long before 329k feet(So called Space) for two reasons: 1. Rockets move forward by the exhaust gases impacting ambient air pressure, not by mass acceleration. F=ma produces, hardly any thrust. 2. Above 150k feet the ambient pressure is so low the chemical reaction of fuel and oxidizer will not sustain to consume the fuel. Even a hypergolic reaction of two chemicals will not “burn”. Therefore what goes up will always come down.