Should we count the 1 Kiwi failure as Kiwi? It's an american company after all... And it's a test launch of a brand new rocket.
Quote from: Svetoslav on 11/29/2017 06:30 pmShould we count the 1 Kiwi failure as Kiwi? It's an american company after all... And it's a test launch of a brand new rocket. Sure we should, RocketLab is an American company.
Quote from: Satori on 11/29/2017 06:34 pmQuote from: Svetoslav on 11/29/2017 06:30 pmShould we count the 1 Kiwi failure as Kiwi? It's an american company after all... And it's a test launch of a brand new rocket. Sure we should, RocketLab is an American company.So you are saying we should NOT count the Kiwi failure as a Kiwi failure, BUT as an American failure. Are Soyuz launches out of French Guiana considered Russian launches? or does it depend upon what launcher and what payload it launched?Interesting.
Some perspective.......
... and another presentation I made last year in which I suggested the magnificent Soviet space industry was like a 'hothouse orchid' that required a number of specific conditions to thrive, conditions now absent and unlikely to be retrieved.
...... is the success record of the Soyuz any higher in Kourou-prepped-and-launched vehicles than in those flown from Russia and Kazakhstan?...
Tabulated results in Svetoslav's post above show 5 more Soyuz failures 2011-present (and more launches) than your table. Are Proton launches/failures included in his table and not yours?http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44321.msg1754212#msg1754212
I don't understand why people are so mystified by the collapse of the Russian space industry. The Russian Federation is collapsing at all levels - economic, social, political - since the invention of fracking destroyed their only export industry. The industrial base they inherited from the USSR is worn out and they can't or won't replace it. Why should space be an exception to this?
...The Soviet Union/Russia has been on one long decline since 1970. Note: (Source:UN)...
The run-up in oil prices from 2002-2013 masked a lot of the inefficiencies and bloat in their system. Much of the profit from the resource sector was pilfered by oligarchs and sent into Swiss bank accounts rather than rebuilding/upgrading old soviet infrastructure, or general economic improvement. Russia now has dutch disease, and relies on digging stuff out of the ground to purchase more complicated products/services from abroad. The eventual transfer to electric cars and away from fossil fuels will only hurt them more.