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Soooo... It works!! :cheers:

Well done, America! :thumbup:

I have been skeptical about the harpoon stuff all along... :hmm:

So, was he right after all?.. :shifty:

Probably because spaceflight incidents don't routinely involve people casualties? And there's no such universal oveseeing body? Damn, what did wake me up this time! :facepalm:

Thanks, Aedar! :)

Well no... According to their website (http://www.spacelin.ru/#!aldan/c99b) this is 4 vernier chambers from an RD-108 engine, bundled together.

http://community.sk.ru/news/b/articles/archive/2014/09/16/lin-industrial--a-slingshot-into-space.aspx Lin Industrial is a Russian startup business that believes sending satellites into space should be less epic blastoff and more paper airplane. Only recently entering the Skolkovo fold as a...

But still... http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2014/0090.html Videos of the mentioned Western Kazakhstan fireball: (and there are more of such)

According to the situation analysis from experts at NK forum (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic14207/message1292091/#message1292091) the satellite was supposed to land in Russia on Sep 2, but underperformed the deorbit burn and decayed randomly after 7 more orbits...

Cosmos-2495 re-enters over the USA territory. http://www.spaceflight101.com/kosmos-2495-re-entry.html Controlled? Uncontrolled? Mis-controlled?.. :facepalm:

We are back to 1960! :thumbsdown:

For Russian speakers mostly (yet the image also speaks for itself): reporter Analoly Shariy (a Ukrainian political exile) is debunking a case of "plundering" which was widely used in medias in the anti-DPR campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilt8DLuu5Og Given that Strelkov has no...

Representatives of Donetsk People's Republic and Malaysia have signed a protocol of delivery of the plane's flight recorders to Malaysia:

WHAT!? Just two comments on the thread devoted to an anniversary of Humanity's glory pinnacle!? :salute: :hailprobe:

I suggest reading the magnificently written story by Anatoly Zak at russianspaceweb.com: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/angara_origin.html And also the other chapter overviewing the project: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/angara.html

Awfully more expensive, but the reason of defenders of the Angara is that it should become cheaper when produced in big series (but still more expensive than the Proton). Plus Russia's going to save on paying compensation to Kazakhstan for risks collateral with launches of Protons and deposit of...

Launch photos by my friend Denis Efremov:

It was meant to stay attached, I think. The video of the launch is on TV Zvezda: http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201407091539-oob6.htm#

The second stage and the dummy payload have reached Kura test range. Hooray!!! :cheers: