Can Poland into Space?

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    With there being a lot of talk about a new space race in the media, I thought it may be a good idea to make a little video covering the geopolitics of space. Focused a little more on geography than usual I would like to give you a good overview of the geopolitics of space travel and what the future space race may look like.
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  • @TheFireGiver
    @TheFireGiver 9 месяцев назад +2639

    The Poland-Luna Commonwealth is inevitable.

    • @starmaker75
      @starmaker75 9 месяцев назад +187

      5,000 space hussar of Poland.

    • @zer0homer
      @zer0homer 9 месяцев назад +64

      @@starmaker75 GW should launch models of hussar-inspired spacemarines, they would be getting bazillions of cash from the meme squads.

    • @cliveclegg8799
      @cliveclegg8799 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@zer0homerOh my god they should! But I think that it should be eldar not space marines.

    • @CocoHutzpah
      @CocoHutzpah 9 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@zer0homerKislev Imperial Guard _in spaaaaaace_

    • @jeremigawkowski9775
      @jeremigawkowski9775 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@CocoHutzpah Warhammer 3 moment

  • @valritz1489
    @valritz1489 9 месяцев назад +781

    "Because as much as Taiwan right now cannot into space, when Russia tells her she can into China, Taiwan will remind Russia that Russia cannot into semiconductors."

    • @MynameisS_A
      @MynameisS_A 9 месяцев назад +43

      Best part 😂

    • @Yuhyuhmuhmuh
      @Yuhyuhmuhmuh 9 месяцев назад +92

      I know it's a meme but man that's pushing the limits of the English language

    • @sidharthcs2110
      @sidharthcs2110 9 месяцев назад +12

      They can.
      Just not the latest and greatest chips.
      Military and space exploration lives legacy chips

    • @sidharthcs2110
      @sidharthcs2110 9 месяцев назад +1

      They can.
      Just not the latest and greatest chips.
      Military and space exploration lives legacy chips

    • @gloverfox9135
      @gloverfox9135 9 месяцев назад +18

      @@ArawnOfAnnwnIF the Chinese take it over. That’s a big IF

  • @iacobibrasiliensium2139
    @iacobibrasiliensium2139 9 месяцев назад +476

    He did it boys he finally mentioned Brazil!!! And it was in a nuanced and measured manner that implies optimism for her future while acknowledging her past, YAY!!

    • @someguy9175
      @someguy9175 9 месяцев назад +29

      aposto 30 conto que a gente vai falhar kkkkk

    • @iacobibrasiliensium2139
      @iacobibrasiliensium2139 9 месяцев назад

      @@someguy9175 tem uma boa chance 😩

    • @mateuspires7282
      @mateuspires7282 9 месяцев назад +20

      dito isso, continuaremos um país fudido

    • @pixelfiend7292
      @pixelfiend7292 9 месяцев назад +42

      Can’t wait for Brazil to become a big player in space like people are predicting, like how they became a super power. Oh wait…

    • @Yuhyuhmuhmuh
      @Yuhyuhmuhmuh 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@mateuspires7282can't do worse than the US

  • @dariuslegacy3406
    @dariuslegacy3406 9 месяцев назад +620

    Poland doing an into space is a must imo

    • @sr-3734tqp
      @sr-3734tqp 9 месяцев назад

      Why?

    • @xdlol59
      @xdlol59 9 месяцев назад +25

      ​@@sr-3734tqpMemes 🤌
      Also Poland is great country 😎

    • @hernysaavedra
      @hernysaavedra 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@xdlol59 the video clearly explains that Poland must launch the rockets towards east to save fuel... what could go wrong

  • @cheeseninja1115
    @cheeseninja1115 9 месяцев назад +1014

    One aspect not mentioned in this is the problem of while there are many ideal launch sites, often the hardest hurdle is getting rockets to said locations. The US built up spaceports in Florida, California, and Virginia so as to connect them to mainland factories instead of the islands of Hawaii or Puerta Rico. ESA has they have to often ship rocket parts and their payloads from Europe all the way to French Guiana. JWST shows just how much logistical effort one really important item can take up and that was from California. This logistical hurdle is also why the Japanese space market often launches many smaller rockets as apposed to the US with medium to soon to be heavy lift rockets taking up a large section of the private sector.

    • @willichtenstein7071
      @willichtenstein7071 9 месяцев назад +40

      Great point I remember that the key issue of the challenger disaster was while the rocket could be made as a single piece. Laws to send jobs to California required the hull to be made in California and the only way to get it over the mountains and into Florida was to cut the rocket into two. Challenger was intentionally launched despite known problems demanding maintenance. . . to stick to a schedule. "The laws of physics don't give a dam about your schedules" is the standout quote from when I learned this.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 9 месяцев назад

      Tbf, Nasa's logistics are purposely complex for no good reason.
      First off, you got states like Alabama, Texas, Oregon, and all these places, who want jobs for their own people. So you get Nasa locations in Alabama shipping shit off to California lol.
      You also got situations like where politicians demand Nasa use SRB's in the space shuttle to keep ICBM companies in business.
      Undoubtely the EU faces similar problems since its even less federalized.
      But really its mostly just France and a few other countries that go into space, and their all close together anyways.

    • @SpartanNat
      @SpartanNat 9 месяцев назад +3

      Nice pointing out Wallops! It’s definitely the smallest of the 3 NASA launch centers, but it’s almost like a slice of The Cape, just in Virginia. I’ve actually seen a few rockets from there, specifically Rocket Lab’s first launch from the US (January 2023) and the final launch of Antares 230+ (August 2023). It’s a beautiful area, not just for rockets but also for the islands of Chincoteague and Assateague.

    • @Anonymous-zu7dh
      @Anonymous-zu7dh 9 месяцев назад +9

      Good point. There's a rocket launching site in northern Sweden esrange. For polar orbits. How do you get the rocket there? There's a railroad from the Norwegian port of Narvik..... That's still rather small for rockets despite the broader Nordic loading gauge but the only practically viable way beyond airlift and local assembly possibly.

    • @adamrhoads1521
      @adamrhoads1521 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@SpartanNat rocket lab is slept on. I took a tour there and it’s pretty sick considering barely anyone knows about them who isn’t into rocketry

  • @kamikazemelon787
    @kamikazemelon787 9 месяцев назад +721

    Poland deserves to into space

    • @altus1253
      @altus1253 9 месяцев назад +6

      Ziggy boggy do

    • @Wagner1934_PL
      @Wagner1934_PL 9 месяцев назад +19

      Poland was in space in 1970's

    • @putinstea
      @putinstea 9 месяцев назад +3

      space is not a right, it's a privilege

    • @jakubosiejewski9859
      @jakubosiejewski9859 9 месяцев назад

      Poland has its own space agency which so far succeeded in launching millions of zloty into the pockets of Christian politicians

    • @nothanks9503
      @nothanks9503 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@putinsteait’s a tremendous responsibility a minor mistake could turn out whole orbit into a 180,000 mph shotgun blast for hundreds of years

  • @rafaelsequeira9150
    @rafaelsequeira9150 9 месяцев назад +1260

    Please Kraut, keep posting your sources in the description like you used to do in your old videos, some people like me would like to delve on the topic beyond your video and some of your sources would be a good start.

    • @deltahat2625
      @deltahat2625 9 месяцев назад +190

      it's just good practice in general to post sources

    • @theelsanto32
      @theelsanto32 9 месяцев назад +52

      Yes it is an absolute must

    • @siechamontillado
      @siechamontillado 9 месяцев назад +33

      Yes, it would be great to get sources again.

    • @lilbiggs4661
      @lilbiggs4661 9 месяцев назад +7

      Please Kraut

    • @artonio5887
      @artonio5887 9 месяцев назад +41

      And posting sources must be on the video description, not the damn discord, please.

  • @EpicgamerwinXD6669
    @EpicgamerwinXD6669 9 месяцев назад +952

    If I was a betting man, I’d say Poland would get into space before Russia gets to the moon.

    • @TheFireGiver
      @TheFireGiver 9 месяцев назад +78

      I'll get into space before Russia gets to the moon

    • @Butter_Warrior99
      @Butter_Warrior99 9 месяцев назад +11

      I’d bet good money.

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 9 месяцев назад +7

      I'd say that's a sure bet.

    • @magictoffee7066
      @magictoffee7066 9 месяцев назад +50

      @@EpicgamerwinXD6669 Well technically Luna-25 which was launched by russia also landed on the moon, just very fast.

    • @EpicgamerwinXD6669
      @EpicgamerwinXD6669 9 месяцев назад +33

      @@magictoffee7066 that is certainly one way to leave your mark on the moon.

  • @SeruraRenge11
    @SeruraRenge11 9 месяцев назад +278

    "and if something is dropped or goes wrong, it goes straight into the Atlantic"
    Well, except that one time it went horribly wrong way too fast. That was something you didn't need to see on tv as a kid right after your teacher saying something to the effect of, "if you study and try hard, this can be you!"

    • @defordumbas9302
      @defordumbas9302 9 месяцев назад +76

      At least big bird survived

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 9 месяцев назад +24

      @@defordumbas9302 Yeah by sheer luck.

    • @TheDanorte
      @TheDanorte 9 месяцев назад +12

      Can't even imagine how much that would mess with my brain as a child...

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 9 месяцев назад +25

      Damn. The Challenger Disaster was before my time so I could never imagine something like that happening while millions of students were watching it live in school.

    • @maninredhelm
      @maninredhelm 9 месяцев назад +26

      @@TheDanorte Being old enough to have been a child who even had a teacher apply to that program, and who himself had childish dreams of becoming an astronaut, my main takeaway from the disaster was that government agencies were nowhere near as infallible as I thought they were. The Space Shuttle had been a huge public relations success, especially among children. It had been presented as a miracle of technology and engineering, and to be fair it was, but it wasn't infallible, we weren't just a decade away from Star Trek like I thought, and if we could screw up something this important this badly then getting into an accidental nuclear war was probably only a 50/50 coin flip. Fortunately I was able to overcome that overriding sense of dread and futility to grow up, get a normal well-paying job, work hard, save up, and buy my first apartment in a big high rise in a major city the day before 9/11. #GenXthings

  • @TheDormantPsycho
    @TheDormantPsycho 9 месяцев назад +58

    I love that kraut mentioned something wasn’t on the Wikipedia, and less than an hour later someone has added it with sources and all

  • @Kraut_the_Parrot
    @Kraut_the_Parrot  9 месяцев назад +48

    So, here is that video with that title that some of you have requested for over 4 years.

    • @hans2396
      @hans2396 9 месяцев назад +1

      Nice

    • @sircatangry5864
      @sircatangry5864 8 месяцев назад

      What you think about "Can Ukraine replace Russia in space"?

  • @MiSt3300
    @MiSt3300 9 месяцев назад +607

    As a Pole 🇵🇱 we actually CAN into space. We have had a cosmonaut in space (Mirosław Hermaszewski) we have our own private orbital rocket company (Space Forest, check them out) and we are part of ESA, the European Space Agency.
    Go Poland 🇵🇱🚀😆

    • @karlhibell278
      @karlhibell278 9 месяцев назад +43

      Love your patriotism brother, as a fellow European Polands growth recently has me excited! All love from the U.K. 🫡

    • @histhoryk2648
      @histhoryk2648 9 месяцев назад +10

      RIP 1941-2022

    • @thomasbohl6924
      @thomasbohl6924 9 месяцев назад +27

      The meme came about because Poland wasn't a ESA member for the longest time. I have "poland cannot into space.png" and "A polish space adventure 3.png" from February 2012. Poland joined November 2012. I'm surprised that meme is still used because it's not that funny.

    • @vainthatoneoverhere
      @vainthatoneoverhere 9 месяцев назад +32

      @@thomasbohl6924 Tbh, as a Pole I like this meme. Even if it takes a jab at my country, it's extremly motivating because you wanna prove it wrong. I even made a Stellaris build around this concept to play Space Poland with underdog story scenario. Quite fun motive.

    • @MiSt3300
      @MiSt3300 9 месяцев назад +23

      @@thomasbohl6924 interesting, I didn't know about the back story. I think it generally falls into the category of "polish jokes" people just making fun of Poland and how Poland is funnily sloppy sometimes. As a Pole I find it funny, although I do realize that most polish jokes come from the time of imperial Germany and later 3rd reich (for propaganda reasons)

  • @FredoRockwell
    @FredoRockwell 9 месяцев назад +198

    Gosh - I hadn't realized that Russia's space programme was in such a dire state! In a way, I'm not surprised, but the reasons it is in such trouble are not what I would have expected. Thanks for the great video!

    • @korakys
      @korakys 9 месяцев назад +11

      Eh, it's in a poor state for sure, but not for the reasons stated. It's entirely the problem of corruption, geography and geopolitics has nothing to do with it.

    • @bobert6259
      @bobert6259 9 месяцев назад +28

      @@korakys geopolitics definitely has a role to play. What do you think Kazakhstan thinks when they see Russia invading Ukraine, meddling in their politics, not sticking to the security agreement they have with Armenia, etc? And now combined with rapidly diminishing access to technology like semiconductors and becoming an international pariah state. You don’t want to get into bed with a deal-welching, poor, outcast nation when it may bar you from western markets and technology and destabilize your internal political system.

    • @DOSFS
      @DOSFS 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@korakys It's have contribute to Russia space decline but it isn't THE reason. Its isolation from other is the main points especially it lost most of its international launch market to new private launch providers (mostly SpaceX).
      So... isolation from international communities, lack of capital, lack of fund, corruption, (very) poor leadership that cause great erosion on Soviet/Russia space industrial base and institution knowledge and brain drain.

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@korakys Nearly every state function in Russia is suffering from corruption. I did think the fact that Russia's previous competitive advantage, rocket design, no longer being an advantage, is highly relevant. Also, as he explained, Russia's main space port is now in Khazakhstan, which thanks to geopolitics Khazakhstan is edging out of Russia's orbit. That makes geopolitics VERY relevant to Russia's decline.

    • @HemantKumar-id3jg
      @HemantKumar-id3jg 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​​​@@FredoRockwellThat's bollocks. Kazakhstan is closer to Russia than ever. Russian military went to quell violent protests in Kazakhstan on the request of the Kazakh government just 2-3 years ago.
      Kazakhstan is part of CSTO (like all other central Asian nations). Russia is probably second only to China as being it's largest targest trading partner. It is in a trade associated with other central Asian states and Russia. That whole central asia area is Russia's backyard where even China hasn't been able to increase it's influence (despite it's proximity). The western narrative of expansionist and untrustworthy Russia isn't mainstream in Kazakhstan especially not amongst it's leaders.
      Most if not all central Asian nations have either opposed or abstained all anti russia motions in the UN.

  • @raxit1337
    @raxit1337 9 месяцев назад +36

    The comparison between Indian and Chinese news coverage is just not fair. English is used far more in India. SCMP is China's only internationally recognised English-language news publication, and they covered it.

  • @TheBreadlord
    @TheBreadlord 9 месяцев назад +122

    One thing, regarding Australia. I am British, and as far as space is concerned we have a curious distinction. We developed an independent launch programme, using Australia as a launch site. And then abandoned the capability.

    • @demondoggy1825
      @demondoggy1825 9 месяцев назад +31

      *launches rocket one time*
      Meh, I'm bored of this already
      *cancels rocket*

    • @thespiritphoenix3798
      @thespiritphoenix3798 9 месяцев назад +14

      @@demondoggy1825 Prospero programme in a nutshell.
      The thing is the UK might actually become the European version of Japan when it comes to Space Programmes focusing heavily on Civilian Satellites and Solar Mapping.

    • @squeaksquawk4255
      @squeaksquawk4255 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@demondoggy1825 We launched 2 rockets, they didn't work, it was cancelled. The scientists then persuaded the Gov't to allow a third launch, as the rocket was already being shipped to Australia. The launch was successful. And then it never launched again.

    • @squeaksquawk4255
      @squeaksquawk4255 9 месяцев назад

      @@thespiritphoenix3798 Prospero was the sattellite. The rocket was called BLACK ARROW

    • @Ruddpocalypse
      @Ruddpocalypse 9 месяцев назад +2

      The distance between the UK and Australia is very long

  • @mateuspires7282
    @mateuspires7282 9 месяцев назад +55

    Amazing to see Brazil in this and with such highlight. I study electrical engineering and recently we had in my college a lecture from the president of the Brazilian space program, who also have studied electric engineering, and it's great to see that our program is truly relevant in the international stage

    • @ethandouro4334
      @ethandouro4334 9 месяцев назад +4

      Esse vídeo está cheio de mentiras e afirmações sem fontes sobre o Brasil, apenas porque ele acredita no que um professor dele disse.

    • @ahwabanmukherjee5065
      @ahwabanmukherjee5065 9 месяцев назад +5

      As an indian ee, my best wishes to you for surviving this degree

    • @mateuspires7282
      @mateuspires7282 9 месяцев назад

      @@ethandouro4334 se vc puder elaborar o que há de errado com o vídeo pfv

    • @mateuspires7282
      @mateuspires7282 9 месяцев назад

      @@ahwabanmukherjee5065 thanks 😄

    • @radio100jogosdeemacs2
      @radio100jogosdeemacs2 4 месяца назад

      @ethandouro4334 fala oq tá errado noq ele falou ae

  • @AirForceNut
    @AirForceNut 9 месяцев назад +52

    The US resistance to the Brazil space program surprised me because the NASA Aqua satellite was launched in 2002 with the HSB (Humidity Sounder for Brazil) instrument which was a Brazilian instrument. It failed within a year of launch, but was an example of cooperation between the two nations in space.
    Granted a instrument launched on an American Satellite is a bit different than a Brazilian Launch Site...

  • @mr.normalguy69
    @mr.normalguy69 9 месяцев назад +181

    Petition for Kraut to make more China and India related videos.

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 9 месяцев назад

      I'm down. Their "cold war" is stirring the pot across the whole continent.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 9 месяцев назад +16

      nahhh. China and India are good topics, but the news has been inundated with them bnoth for farrr too long.
      Maybe the guy could talk about the private space stuff.

    • @Xalerdane
      @Xalerdane 9 месяцев назад +8

      He already did one about the both of them.

    • @HemantKumar-id3jg
      @HemantKumar-id3jg 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@honkhonk8009😂😂. You're right but unfortunately that's only going to increase specially in the space sector.
      Kraut missed that US is planning to return to the moon with Artemis in 2025, a plan made specifically because of Chinese ambition to do the same by 2040.
      Now, even India has said that it eventually wants to have it's own space station and land an Indian on the moon.

  • @RavignonCh
    @RavignonCh 9 месяцев назад +1252

    Glad to know that India is making headways into the one place not corrupted by capitalism: Space.

    • @angelotheangelo3978
      @angelotheangelo3978 9 месяцев назад +183

      Not corrupted by capitalism, yet :'3

    • @starmaker75
      @starmaker75 9 месяцев назад +106

      I would have gone with this
      India: I'm going to the place with no Abrahamic religions, SPACE!!!

    • @donaldlee8249
      @donaldlee8249 9 месяцев назад +55

      Space X: am I a joke to you

    • @Iggi-mv2ux
      @Iggi-mv2ux 9 месяцев назад +45

      @@donaldlee8249
      Yes.

    • @lostlegend9015
      @lostlegend9015 9 месяцев назад +23

      Indian Govt. have allowed private sector to work in space sector in 2020 so within 5-6 years at least 2-3 companies are going to develop their own rockets to launch. Within a decade after developing that they are going to aim big.
      Space isn't the only sector India is good at.

  • @Bluefire-zl5fm
    @Bluefire-zl5fm 9 месяцев назад +70

    Currently studying Spaceflight Mechanics and Systems. Really surprised and happy to see this video appear in my feed! It's provided a lot of geopolitical context that my course doesn't cover.

    • @nadri3335
      @nadri3335 9 месяцев назад +6

      This channel is all about geopolitics, if you became somewhat interested in the topic I would reccomend watching other videos of his, they are great

  • @hedgehog_fox
    @hedgehog_fox 9 месяцев назад +78

    I am pretty sure the "Taiwanese nerds" you are referring to at 3:28 are actually Chinese university students from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

    • @kennethye4374
      @kennethye4374 9 месяцев назад +24

      Yeah especially since they're clearly using simplified Chinese characters in the video.

    • @kevinzhou3
      @kevinzhou3 9 месяцев назад

      The whole video is pretty propagandistic. He claims that China must be censoring news about India's space progress because his "media bias" checker can't find English language articles in Chinese newspapers about it. Well, obviously it can't -- Chinese newspapers are written in Chinese.

    • @ldelgg
      @ldelgg 9 месяцев назад

      It says in his channel Hong Kong

    • @hedgehog_fox
      @hedgehog_fox 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@ldelgg No it is not, the school name is literally in the video. ruclips.net/video/4xEx2EQIPD4/видео.htmlsi=OBEib12LPX1_jfgR&t=192

    • @kennethye4374
      @kennethye4374 9 месяцев назад +18

      @@ldelggBut it says at the end of on the videos Nanjing University of Aernautics and Astronautics. (also there's a big PRC flag in one of them). So either a mainlander who has a VPN in Hong Kong, or a Hong Konger who's studying in Nanjing.

  • @frederickbrown8222
    @frederickbrown8222 9 месяцев назад +36

    This is crazy I was literally just thinking man Kraut hasn’t made an upload in a while

  • @kingace6186
    @kingace6186 9 месяцев назад +42

    This is different from the usual videos that can be expected from Kraut, but, as a space enthusiast, I AM HERE FOR IT.
    Either way, space exploration is deeply tied to geopolitics so I hope we can expect more content about space on this channel.

    • @CockatooDude
      @CockatooDude 9 месяцев назад

      I think we likely will in some time, space will be the single most important geopolitical topic in the coming years.

  • @chongqingcapybara1306
    @chongqingcapybara1306 9 месяцев назад +21

    I know you love Taiwan very much, however that Taiwanese nerd is actually a Chinese student from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(南京航空航天大学). His name is Shang Liu (刘上), and he was born in Changde, Hunan, not in Taiwan.

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 8 месяцев назад +8

      He got a lot of facts about China's space program wrong, anyone that watches this video could get the impression that Europe and India are more advanced than China in space and that's just wrong. He didn't even mention the Chinese space station that right now has astronauts in orbit, the only other country that went alone making their own space station was the USSR.

  • @BladderProductions
    @BladderProductions 9 месяцев назад +165

    Poland has long planned to land the first man on the surface of the sun. After intense criticism that their astronauts would burn up, they explained they would go at night in winter time.

    • @dschortz
      @dschortz 9 месяцев назад +7

      As a New Mexican I used to tell the same joke, but then Richard Branson into’d space and messed it all up

    • @rafamanko4142
      @rafamanko4142 8 месяцев назад

      Tępy chuju masz nas za idiotów? wylądujemy w nocy :P

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 8 месяцев назад

      In my country we don't have Polish jokes, so our set up involved the Soviets sending brunettes and redheads to space, so the blondes plan to land on the Sun.

  • @pangolimazul6055
    @pangolimazul6055 9 месяцев назад +26

    I'm a brazilian and my undergraduate thesis is about the brazilian space program. First I will say you got did point out well various things about the brazilian space program, including the bit about the quilombolas.
    It is also true that the US has storically been very much against the brazilian space program, which can be seen by a wikileaks of 2009 where the US tried to convince Ukraine of not cooperating with the brazilian space program. Not only that, the Accident of Alcatara, in which a big explosion of the first satellite capable rocket of the country occurred a few days before launch and killed more than 20 scientists, is sometimes speculated to be a work of american sabotage. The thing I though you were inacurate is saying that the US has stopped this posture against the brazilian space program. The Tecnology Safeguards Agreement negotiated in 2019 and ratified more recently did permit US companies to launch in Brazil, but it imposed a heavy ammount of control from the US to any activities there, whether a company launches a US rocket or just a single US made equipment, everything is overseen by the US. The agreement is much more restrictive than other agreements of this kind, like the one beetwen the US and UK. So the US is still trying to stop Brazil here.
    Another thing of note is that the achivments of Brazil's space program were made against the odds from a resource point of view, even more so after the end of the military. Brazil invests very little in it's space program, in fact it is the smallest amount as a percentage of GDP in all the big economies of the world. Not only that but the organization of such program is a mess, with a civil agency that has barely any power but planning(AEB), the military (FAB, that are in charge of rockets) and a very well educated laboratory that produces one of the most advenced space literatures in the world even as it repetedly recieved budgets cuts from Bolsonaro for their continual coverage about the Amazon deforestation (INPE). Honestly, I'm surprised we even have as much progress as we have now, since our government really doesn't invest enough into the area. The saddest part is that Brazil really has a good scientific community that studies the subject and universities that are top class in meteology and aerospace, we could probably achieve much if there was any substantial investment.

    • @jusu8961
      @jusu8961 2 месяца назад

      Who the hell would think america sabotaged your tiny 380kg to orbit rocket? why would they do that?? why would anyone think that? rockets go boom, thats kind of their whole thing.
      Anyway i am interested in why you think america is throttling the brazilian space industry. its not like brazilian launchers really matter at all.

    • @gabfelippi
      @gabfelippi Месяц назад

      @@jusu8961 market competition, our sites could cause divestment in america and we could get a good amount of advanced technology which is probably be seen as a threat by americans, specially now that space war is something in the near future

  • @vh1830
    @vh1830 9 месяцев назад +12

    this is one of my personal favourite videos you've done. thanks for putting in the effort to make these.

  • @roncedoniafinossenoresVCG1724
    @roncedoniafinossenoresVCG1724 4 месяца назад +9

    I'm Brazilian and to this day I don't understand how a country full of people, raw materials and a perfect geography chooses to sell what it has to the USA instead of protecting and feeding the national industry.

    • @dangelo1369
      @dangelo1369 23 дня назад +1

      That’s a question for Brazilians to answer for themselves. You have been persuaded that you are a “poor” country, you’re not. People don’t steal from poor countries. So, your most precious resource isn’t the raw materials, it’s the minds of Brazilians. Invest money into developing and retaining intellectual capital, and you will become not only a regional power but also a player on the world stage.

  • @benjammin9745
    @benjammin9745 9 месяцев назад +6

    One of the things that truly makes me smile is seeing that kraut made a new video

  • @wulf37
    @wulf37 9 месяцев назад +29

    No New Zealand? Im surprised you didnt mention Rocket Lab and the fact that they're in second place after SpaceX in the private space race.

    • @neelpatelnek
      @neelpatelnek 9 месяцев назад +15

      SK NK Israel also didn't get mentioned.
      Rocket lab is now US co so maybe that's why

    • @sackjavage6959
      @sackjavage6959 9 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah I was really surprised to not see them mentioned, especially considering they’re among the cheapest if not the cheapest rockets launched at the moment

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 8 месяцев назад +3

      Rocket Lab is an American company under ITAR that works for the department of defense and with American citizens on their leadership. They only use New Zealand for their location. Independently, New Zealand would have NEVER developed a space program.

  • @poisonousbadge126
    @poisonousbadge126 9 месяцев назад +3

    Kraut makes the most entertaining, enticing and educating vids ever!

  • @someone_stole_my_handle
    @someone_stole_my_handle 9 месяцев назад +13

    My godfather used to work for the Brazilian space program, and I feel like you forgot to mention something important (or maybe it just isn't public knowledge).
    Several years ago a launch went catastrophically wrong: the rocket (I can't remember what it's name was) exploded killing a lot of important people in the Brazilian space sector, that were my godfather's friends and co-workers. The lost of life, of the expertise the dead had, of the rocket, of the money it costed and the consequently lost face basically meant that the funding for the space program was almost non existence, which set it back for at least a decade.
    (This is a story I grew up hearing, and I haven't thought about it in a long time, so forgive me if the details are a little vague)
    Edit: I just googled it in 2003 the VLS-01 (Veículo Lançador de Satélites) exploded while it was still being worked on, three days before scheduled launch, killing 21 people and the dream of an Brazilian rocket.

  • @arneboeckxstaens4228
    @arneboeckxstaens4228 9 месяцев назад +4

    Love your amazing video’s kraut. Keep it up💪

  • @thedude4795
    @thedude4795 9 месяцев назад +78

    God, I love the quality of your conten, Lance.

    • @notsure134
      @notsure134 9 месяцев назад

      Is this Kraut lore cannon?

  • @lukasschimpf6862
    @lukasschimpf6862 9 месяцев назад

    Glad to see another upload, keep it up!

  • @berzerius
    @berzerius 9 месяцев назад +37

    12:49 You forgot that India too was restricted by the US just like Brazil. Indian space program struggled and persevered through these restrictions. They were lifted only in 2011.

    • @hydrogen5087
      @hydrogen5087 9 месяцев назад +10

      Let's be honest. USA did more than just restrict.

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 9 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@hydrogen5087Sabotage for sure. The USA is vad atcreatjng good engineers so I expect them to go talent hunting around Asia and Europe in the near future.

  • @gwaith6666
    @gwaith6666 9 месяцев назад +11

    Holy cow, Kraut talks of Poland🥰 Pls do more - we are in a very interesting point right now, basically divided into two hating each other Polands❤️🤍

    • @chlopakzpolski
      @chlopakzpolski 9 месяцев назад

      nie widzę 7 gwiazdek, nie widzę też napisów jeb*ć PO , ani naklejek w stylu PiS gdzie za I robi narząd męski, tylko jedna strona nienawidzi drugiej, a ja poyebanych ludzi nie nienawidzę

    • @ColorPandora
      @ColorPandora 9 месяцев назад +2

      There was nearly nothing about Poland in this video though

    • @Kulei666
      @Kulei666 9 месяцев назад +3

      That's just how Polish people operate. Sees one pole and immediately gets incredibly excited. "Wow look mum I am at the TV!" @@ColorPandora

  • @TDroid-0208
    @TDroid-0208 9 месяцев назад +5

    I was going to make a comment about how it’s been 3 years since the last “yearly” long form video, BUT you said be nice so good luck on making it

    • @Kraut_the_Parrot
      @Kraut_the_Parrot  9 месяцев назад +6

      I know. I am sorry. Thank you for being nice.

    • @ultimategamer876
      @ultimategamer876 9 месяцев назад

      you are loved and appreciated in the eyes of the Dark Gods@@Kraut_the_Parrot

  • @todberry5068
    @todberry5068 9 месяцев назад

    This was fun to watch!! Thank you for being witty and entertaining

  • @kennethye4374
    @kennethye4374 9 месяцев назад +24

    What was the Chinese space failure in 2021 though?
    Edit: Alright so I think kraut is referring to the Shiyan 10 satellite failure launched Sept 27. That or the Hyperbola 1 or Kuazhou 1A failures. But I'm not sure if that counts as "plagued with failures".

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 8 месяцев назад +2

      Also those "failures" we're of the Chinese private space sector, a bunch of startups, not the Chinese National Space Administration (Chinese equivalent of NASA)

  • @pacocheung1864
    @pacocheung1864 9 месяцев назад +89

    If Poland (with or without ESA) ever starts a kickstarter for a space program I think the internet would get together and chip in enough for a Polish space program
    I mean at least I would

    • @klosikowa
      @klosikowa 9 месяцев назад +9

      Poland is already doing trials on suborbital rockets. There is two organisations who are doing their own projects: one is government owned- Institute Of Aviation with rocket named Amber 2k. The other one is private company named Spaceforest and their rocket is named Perun. Both organisations had test flights with lower altitude targets and in my opinion Perun is more likely to achieve suborbital space flight first because in recent months Spaceforest has already tested Perun two times and is preparing for third flight.

    • @Rabarbarzynca
      @Rabarbarzynca 9 месяцев назад

      We are using KSP as a base for designs. What can go wrong? ;)
      Seriously though, Poland most likely will do something with ESA...

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 8 месяцев назад +1

      Can I get a "Polish Space Marines" patch as backer reward?

  • @manlycorn
    @manlycorn 9 месяцев назад +4

    You are somewhat incorrect in your explanation about why equatorial locations are good for space launches: While it is true that the equator does provide a boost during the launch, the much larger issue is actually in lowering the payloads' inclination, which gets most costly the farther you are from the equator.
    Since you seemed to focus on space exploration, rather than commercial or military satellite launches (which make up the absolute majority of all space launches), the advantages that some locations have are quite relevant, as almost all interplantary missions for instance would prefer an equatorial inclination.
    It still has to be noted, that most launches do NOT need to launch from an equatorical location. Equatorial orbits are generally only really useful for either interplanetary or geostationary target orbits.

  • @fusionsub
    @fusionsub 9 месяцев назад

    Nice to see this type of video once and a while.

  • @WasatyPanKazimierz
    @WasatyPanKazimierz 9 месяцев назад +1

    Your videos are a treasure. Thank you!

  • @TheVakama112
    @TheVakama112 9 месяцев назад +4

    My day just went from no Kraut lecture to Kraut lecture. 🤠

  • @jannegrey593
    @jannegrey593 9 месяцев назад +15

    Very good video. And yes, the "history" of how Brazilian "launch site" came to be is complete news to me. Thanks for covering that.

    • @jclfreitas
      @jclfreitas 9 месяцев назад +1

      It's called expropriation and happens all the time, including in countries where the rule of law applies (let alone in Brazil). Who cares?

    • @jannegrey593
      @jannegrey593 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@jclfreitas I care because while it is normal it isn't usually hidden from people's view. That's the point of contention (at least biggest one). Doing it shadely.

    • @incognitoman3656
      @incognitoman3656 9 месяцев назад

      @@jannegrey593 WE GOT IT ON THE SPACEPORT WIKIPEDIA PAGE

    • @janaejoaodosacramento9731
      @janaejoaodosacramento9731 8 месяцев назад

      and it acually existening its kinda of a miracle honestly, very little funding , political and military pressures and retrictions on its power , and acidents that killed people with a lot of expertixe

  • @TheGoodluckjonny
    @TheGoodluckjonny 9 месяцев назад

    Holy shit - Kraut doing a video about space exploration? What is this, my birthday, Christmas and Easter combined?
    Seriously, this was amazing. The video was as great as always, but that this was about a topic I’m pretty passionate about (more than your usual topics) was even better. I’d love to see more videos about this topic, but even so I’m looking forward to whatever you produce next!

  • @zachl3330
    @zachl3330 9 месяцев назад +4

    Very cool to see the location of space ports mentioned, ever since Mossdeep City in Hoenn being based off Tanegashima, it was interesting to see the low latitude east coasts was such a common location for launches

  • @purushottam_paramdharma
    @purushottam_paramdharma 9 месяцев назад +5

    Brazil was not the only one who was restricted rocket technology for their space program.
    It was the same for India, hence why we relied on the Soviets to launch our first satellites and based our engines on Soviet technology

  • @ReySchultz121
    @ReySchultz121 9 месяцев назад +34

    Poland trying not to be spiteful towards Russia challenge: impossible

    • @chlopakzpolski
      @chlopakzpolski 9 месяцев назад +3

      Krauts not trying quarrel the Slavs challenge: impossible (if GER did not feed Putin via NS1 and NS2 he would be less neoimperialistic and Poles would be less spitefull)

    • @unlikelyhero3167
      @unlikelyhero3167 9 месяцев назад +11

      BASED POLAND 🇮🇩 💪

    • @gloverfox9135
      @gloverfox9135 9 месяцев назад

      Least based man in Poland:

    • @gloverfox9135
      @gloverfox9135 9 месяцев назад

      @@chlopakzpolskiLeave to the Germans to cooperate the with Russians. Wouldn’t be the first time that happened lol.

  • @rohansrivastava6396
    @rohansrivastava6396 9 месяцев назад +3

    Keep up the good work

  • @Hellschwarz
    @Hellschwarz 9 месяцев назад

    Nice video again
    I learned a lot about space travel today

  • @piotr_jurkiewicz
    @piotr_jurkiewicz 9 месяцев назад +65

    Rodacy, dokonaliśmy tego. Znów o nas mówią i tym razem nie przez Wardęgę!!

    • @xdlol59
      @xdlol59 9 месяцев назад +7

      Nasi tu byli!
      Siema.

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 9 месяцев назад

      Time to can into space.

  • @hardlineamerican8495
    @hardlineamerican8495 9 месяцев назад +8

    As a space and politics nerd I need your sources on this.
    Absolutely want to learn every detail I can

  • @JMariano.1
    @JMariano.1 9 месяцев назад +1

    Hi watching from Guam here. Thank you for your great content !

  • @user-vv9ow7vq4n
    @user-vv9ow7vq4n 9 месяцев назад +1

    I liked your Brain4breakfast style. Really great video, i learned a ton of new things.

  • @JJAB.
    @JJAB. 9 месяцев назад +8

    To answer the question in the title.
    Poland right now is about to achieve the ability to launch suborbital rockets. That's no it yet, but the Perun rocket is a big steap in direction towards the stars for Poland.

    • @prkp7248
      @prkp7248 8 месяцев назад +1

      We had our own science rocket program in 50s and 60s that was closed without any reasonable reason while it was in advanced stage.

  • @linerider195
    @linerider195 9 месяцев назад +7

    A hard moment when following any youtuber is when he covers a topic you're familiar with.
    Your portrayal of the chinese space program is dismissive and downplays their enormous achievements. Two crewed space stations, significant activities in cislunar space...
    The video is also riddle with other smaller inaccuracies, but nothing that detracts from the main message too strongly.
    There are also some omissions. For example there is another, more important, reason spaceports must be close to the equator, it's very hard or impossible to achieve low inclination orbits otherwise, including GEO and a number of trajectories beyond Earth's sphere of influence. This is not crucial, but it's a pet peeve of mine that it gets forgotten since it's so important.
    China notwithstanding, it's a good video although definitely an outsider's perspective.

  • @stormelemental13
    @stormelemental13 9 месяцев назад

    That was one of the best ads/sponsorships I've seen inserted into a video. Damn that was smooth.

  • @LitmusPapyrus
    @LitmusPapyrus 9 месяцев назад

    I never saw this recommended, glad I checked your channel after your community post

  • @tremendousbaguette9680
    @tremendousbaguette9680 9 месяцев назад +4

    Brazil also suffered a setback in 2003 when there was an explosion at the launch site.

  • @nadri3335
    @nadri3335 9 месяцев назад +8

    Imagine some spaniards making a voyage around the solar system, it would be awesome

  • @Baconbitz-yd7jb
    @Baconbitz-yd7jb 9 месяцев назад +1

    YAYYYY NEW KRAUT VIDEO MY DAY IS MADE🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @KBergs
    @KBergs 9 месяцев назад

    Great video dude

  • @thewingedserpent5823
    @thewingedserpent5823 9 месяцев назад +11

    French guyana is an oversees department and not a territory. It has the same status as any other department of metropolitan france so the likelyhood of it going independed is probably rather slim

    • @xijinpig8982
      @xijinpig8982 9 месяцев назад +4

      So was Goa to Portugal lol, how did that end?

    • @barmybarmecide5390
      @barmybarmecide5390 9 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@xijinpig8982french Guyana has voted twice in favour of remaining a part of France and rejecting autonomy. Besides, Goa was invaded by India. Are you suggesting Brazil will invade France through the Amazon rainforest lmao

    • @thewingedserpent5823
      @thewingedserpent5823 9 месяцев назад +1

      @xijinpig8982 was goa ever more than a colonial territory?
      Regardless the point is moot since goa didn't chose independece, it was invaded and annexed.

    • @barmybarmecide5390
      @barmybarmecide5390 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@thewingedserpent5823 technically yes, but nobody ever considered Goa a decolonised territory, whereas the entire world, NGOs and states, agree that French Guiana is a decolonised territory

    • @vmedhe2
      @vmedhe2 9 месяцев назад +1

      The French said the same thing about Algeria.

  • @belo2733
    @belo2733 9 месяцев назад +4

    The US also launches out of California , from Vandenberg space force base, and Virginia, from Wallops. There are also some private companies with small sat launch vehicles that launch out of Alaska.

    • @demondoggy1825
      @demondoggy1825 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, Kraut seems to be focusing specifically on equatorial launches.
      Also he left out Texas.

  • @Whisk3yKnight
    @Whisk3yKnight 9 месяцев назад +2

    Was reviewing a paper on the Outer Space Treaty, hell of a time to release this😤🙏🔥

  • @janusztracz542
    @janusztracz542 9 месяцев назад +2

    DAMN YOU KRAUT
    I was clickbaited thinking it will be about Poland

  • @fws88
    @fws88 9 месяцев назад +4

    Funny coincidence, today was actually the grand opening of the Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway. (It's only a launch site for smaller satellites though, up to 1500kg)

  • @CSGhostAnimation
    @CSGhostAnimation 9 месяцев назад +7

    9:54 I experienced this firsthand in Japan. The Tokyo Skytree had a small aerospace museum, and I was FLOORED when I saw it. Japan landed on a damn ASTEROID and fired the sample BACK TO EARTH-- the sample was on display at the museum. I was alone in that museum, everyone else was buying some silly tourist nonsense. It blows my mind that nobody cares about Japan's space achievements.

    • @themafix8348
      @themafix8348 9 месяцев назад +3

      The world is a small place.

  • @MrMotey
    @MrMotey 9 месяцев назад +1

    I like Kraut videos and space stuff. This has both.

  • @denizo9263
    @denizo9263 9 месяцев назад +2

    this is the smoothest segway to a sponsor I've ever seen.

  • @Sesarrbg
    @Sesarrbg 9 месяцев назад +24

    Equatorial orbits are not the only desirable orbits for satellites. Currently Russia's second most advanced cosmodrome is at Plesetsk, which is even further north from Helsinki. It's used for polar orbit launches. USA also launches a vast number of polar orbit flights from Vandenberg, California.

    • @BigBoss-sm9xj
      @BigBoss-sm9xj 8 месяцев назад

      yep I get to see some of their launches

  • @flags5765
    @flags5765 9 месяцев назад +4

    The soviet space program didnt exactly stagnated after korolev they kept on going and were onto produce stuff like the energia
    The problem is that the soviet space program was in the soviet union

  • @isacnascimento897
    @isacnascimento897 9 месяцев назад

    perfect video as allways !

  • @quronia2151
    @quronia2151 9 месяцев назад

    dear apollo.. what an amazing vid. this is so interesting

  • @reluctantcrusader8455
    @reluctantcrusader8455 9 месяцев назад +7

    Kraut, I believe you got some details wrong in this video. For example, you said the Philippines relied on China for its satelite launches but if you looked up the list of Philippine satellites, you would find that most of those launches are from the United States. Sure, most of those launches are in the 2010s but even if you focus onlyvon satellite launches before 2010, you would only find 2 satellite launches and only 1 of those is Chinese.

    • @uncommon_name9337
      @uncommon_name9337 8 месяцев назад

      I recall the last ones were launched from Japan

  • @pixelfiend7292
    @pixelfiend7292 9 месяцев назад +4

    Can’t wait for Brazil to become a big player in space like people are predicting, like how they became a super power. Oh wait…

    • @ethandouro4334
      @ethandouro4334 9 месяцев назад +3

      This country will only be something when people like our citizens stop coping about it and actually do something

  • @sulfie46
    @sulfie46 9 месяцев назад

    The perfect 16 minutes to spend before my class. Cheers!

  • @slyasleep
    @slyasleep 9 месяцев назад

    Great video, thanks!

  • @ChorltonBrook
    @ChorltonBrook 8 месяцев назад +3

    personal bugbear 2:56 the USSR is not just Russia - BTW Zasiadko & Korolev were Ukrainian (as were a lot of the scientists & engineers involved) & you know the Baikonur Cosmodrome is in Khazakstan.

  • @thelastofthehitachi972
    @thelastofthehitachi972 9 месяцев назад +4

    I heard they sent a rocket to the sun once, at night

  • @AnotherGuyV
    @AnotherGuyV 8 месяцев назад

    Well made and informative video👍

  • @arielpuma4512
    @arielpuma4512 9 месяцев назад

    You are back omg omg

  • @rogerman65
    @rogerman65 9 месяцев назад +3

    What you are saying in the first part of the video is correct - for GEO-orbiting satellites, like for instance broadband television. But Sweden has a launch site for polar orbiting satellites already, in the north part of Sweden i.e., Norrland or in English North Land. And we have had a space program and launch site connected to Universities in Norrland and the rest of Sweden for a long long time.

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam 9 месяцев назад +5

    Polish countryball is such a cutie patootie Poland needs into space

  • @RURK_
    @RURK_ 9 месяцев назад

    Today is a good day, Kraut video

  • @katzekaiserin
    @katzekaiserin 9 месяцев назад

    I'm embarking on a realistic hard scifi worldbuilding project so you have no idea how perfect your timing was for me

  • @juliuszkocinski7478
    @juliuszkocinski7478 9 месяцев назад +7

    So Poland CAN into space - just as a part of EU.
    Well, good timing on that, one Pole is already scheduled to go into space soon

  • @MynameisS_A
    @MynameisS_A 9 месяцев назад +10

    Wonderful video as always, Kraut! Really loved watching this one. The fact that some media always forget that the looming space race is between Asian countries and not USA and China will always be amusing to me.

    • @Joker-no1uh
      @Joker-no1uh 9 месяцев назад

      US and China are the only countries to land rovers on Mars (US many times). US is only country to put a man on the moon. Its not really a race until they get even close to those

  • @nobodysanything2330
    @nobodysanything2330 9 месяцев назад +1

    10:30 I have never needed more strength to continue watching a kraut video

  • @ash12181987
    @ash12181987 9 месяцев назад

    This was a very small, compact little video. Not like a lot of the longer form content I am used to here. And it was great, ty.

  • @josuemanuelparejacontreras6004
    @josuemanuelparejacontreras6004 9 месяцев назад +5

    Hi, I am from Perú, I don't know how my country ended up as an APSCO member 😂, maybe in the future north region of Trujillo (very close to the Ecuador) could become new Chinese launch site

  • @quisqueyanguy120
    @quisqueyanguy120 8 месяцев назад +3

    Why you didn't mention the Chinese space station or the Chinese space probe program on the moon and mars? You mentioned India's program on the Moon and Europe's deep space missions but not China's.

    • @mobiuscoreindustries
      @mobiuscoreindustries 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yep, also he handvawed away the US's strategic dominance in space as just a continuation of its prior state while there has been a GIGNATIC inversion in its root cause. The US was on the decline severely in term of launch competitiveness and launch capabilities and had briefly fallen behind both russia (pre- 2014 invasion) and China... Until spaceX happened
      80% of the total mass to orbit launched this year was due entirely to the endeavours of a single private company for their own wider mission of space developement and interplanetary colonisation, NOT a state apparatus.
      This is a GIGANTIC diffrence, but he glosses over it

  • @fudgepuppyorangecake
    @fudgepuppyorangecake 9 месяцев назад

    Love hearing some Agustin Barrios in the background! Also very impressive ad integration

  • @JakubWaniek
    @JakubWaniek 9 месяцев назад

    Amazed at the accuracy of the definition of an equivalence relation

  • @GojiMet86
    @GojiMet86 9 месяцев назад +3

    Alternate title 1: *Can Spaceland into Po?*
    Alternate title 2: *Can Po space into Land?*
    Alternate title 3: *Can Po land into Space?*

  • @turtek12
    @turtek12 9 месяцев назад +5

    The location of launch sites isn't actually as big a hurdle as it's often said to be. For one, artificial launch sites (offshore platforms) have always been an option--the Italians, prior to ESA's organization, launched rockets from an offshore platform off eastern Africa. There was a joint venture to launch Zenit rockets from a similar platform called SeaLaunch, though that went bankrupt for political reasons. And, if one gets really desperate, one can actually launch against Earth's rotation by firing westward--Israel does this because all its eastern neighbors are unpleasant. You eat some percentage loss in payload, but that can be countered by making a bigger rocket. The loss isn't really huge anyway--on the order of 10%.

    • @andreassag
      @andreassag 9 месяцев назад

      While there are alternative lunch platforms, they are severely limited in terms of efficiency and size. To my knowledge, most of the rockets shot from offshore platforms are suborbital rockets, because no offshore platform support the sizes required for orbital rockets. It also extends the time, and is more complex (transpiration) then shore-based lunch sites. It is not without reason why SpaceX for example have given up on offshore based lunch platforms, even if they claim that they'll revisit the idea.

    • @turtek12
      @turtek12 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@andreassag Most, yes, but not all--Zenit was a quite large rocket, comparable to Falcon 9, and it flew mostly off a platform.

  • @fmobus
    @fmobus 8 месяцев назад +1

    Brazilian here: the explosion at the launch site in 2003 was a significant setback, as it killed many experienced engineers and technicians. To this day, there are people who are not convinced it was an accident.

  • @FIBP
    @FIBP 8 месяцев назад

    Off-Poland-and-Space-Topic but Can I just say this is one of *the best As/Promotionals for a Sponsor I've seen in RUclips?!?! It really made me interested, showed benefits, and is far from annoying! - good job mate!! 👏🏽 Tell Ground you got them at least one potential onlooker