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Rocket launches are cheaper for the same reason most thing from those countries are, better/intact industrial infrastructure and lower wages. Cubesat slots are likely to be of similar prices, because they're being handed out by the same providers.

I think he just means 'alternative to a vaccine' rather than the standard alternative medicine, i.e. 'alternative to anything that actually works'.

For China you want to contact China Great Wall Industry Corporation and for India Antrix Corporation. I don't think either have public prices, and for China you'd have to avoid anything ITAR-sensitive. Both provide cubesat launches through ISIS launch services, and probably others.

That doesn't follow at all.

Delta-V to circularise from that orbit would be about 700m/s. They're not in the right inclination either, which brings it to about 1000m/s for needed orbit. They only have about 300. EDIT: Arianespace was only operating the rocket. As far as we can tell, the fault lies with the manufacturer of the stage, NPO Lavochkin.

We have video. Looks like guidance or control failure.

We know it was the termination system at least;

It's already standard, that's what LAS' are for.

In reality, the rocket responsible for sending most supplies to the ISS flies about 16 times a year; because it can do the kind of missions aquarius isn't capable of doing; crewed and high-energy ones. Aquarius is restricted to a tiny portion of the actual demand: economies of scale will work against it, not with it.

At the moment, there's not much information other than it happened. There's apparently a pretty major grass fire, but probably no injuries on the ground.

Nuclear isomers are radioactive by definition.

Yes, they're out to make money out of us by making us spend less on food. Makes perfect sense.

He mentioned 12 million as the whole pot, not a handout. And 12 million will support a lot more than 6U; you could outright buy a launch on a ~ 1 ton capability vehicle for that much.

I think we can all agree that if the best qualification you can get for a source is 'lives in generally the right country', it's probably rubbish. Remember this wasn't 'a source within russia's space agency', just 'a source within russia'; could have been Pravda for all we know. Khazakstan hasn't been underwater for a long, long time. All of central Asia's been basically where it is now for tens of millions of years.

People expected to have a possibility of coming into contact with it are still vaccinated. In this day and age, that's just soldiers in specialised units, but it was most of those stationed in in europe a couple of decades back.

How many people have been killed by the flu vaccine? Don't be confused by people who think any bad cold is 'the flu'.

And performance. The PS3 is basically a top-end PC from eight years ago, Moore's law means even the lowest of low-end modern desktops trounce it. Especially when you factor in the Cell processor in the PS3, which is tough to develop anything to run on.

'Access to space' might refer to purchase of non-ESA launchers; CNES uses Indian PSLV launchers for their SPOT earth-obs sats.

US and Russian segments use different port designs. Only Progress, Soyuz and ATV have russian ports.

Remember that all that gets to the ISS is the ATV vehicle, which is in cleanroom environment right until the fairing opens; if there was enough algal contamination to be detectable on different parts of the station, ESA would have a fit. Most probably it's from Dragon, given that's the only ISS VV with unencapsulated surfaces.

I'm not trying to 'get a rise' from you, I'm trying to get some explanation as to how you think the same logic doesn't apply to both examples.

How do we know that? I've phoned up the wildlife agency and the RSPCA, but they've refused to send anybody. Without a thorough search, how can we be sure?

There might be dragons at the bottom of my garden.

Most USSR rocketry work was directed by the military independent of Roskosmos; even today they have their own completely independent launch capability.

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