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This is definitely a Soyuz and not a Proton; more precisely this is a Soyuz rocket using the short "S fairing" used for the first few Starsem launches from pad 31/6 in the early 2000s. (notable ones include ESA's Cluster II, Mars Express/Beagle 2 and Venus Express) However there are no such...

I am busy with my first full time work, but a report on the Cygnus-Phoenix-Deke complex will be available from me half a day before launch. ;)

Go for launch tomorrow at 04:04 UTC!

And just as I have finished the report..... :rolleyes: 1 December 2015 During the final step of VV06 launch campaign, a technical issue on the Vega launch vehicle required additional analysis. The launch initially scheduled for December 2, 2015 is postponed. ESA’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft...

Launch phase report Yet another long awaited universal mission left on paper for decades is about to fly! The general relativity theory, of which its basis was published by Albert Einstein exactly one century ago, has one major prediction left untested till now - the ripples of gravitational...

It's probably a bit too late, but I'm writing a launch report for this one. While it's not the real LISA, maintaining absolute position accuracy in space is always cool. :thumbup:

:blink: What kind of job is that? Here in HK fresh graduates usually start with $14K per year. Not even the brightest mind hired by Goldman Sachs would get $60K per year here right off the bat......

Some detective work from the web seems to indicate that this might come from the CRS-4 launch last September instead.

In other news, is someone going to make an add-on for that? :hmm:

Spacecraft separation coming up soon:

Thanks to yet another boat straying into the path, I can finish the launch report before it launches! New launch time is 06:50 UTC.

Despite being one of the biggest space powers in the world, Japan has never stepped into one of the largest markets in the industry. Until today, no Japanese rocket has ever lifted a commercial payload as its main passenger. That's right, 0 commercial launch contracts until very recently...

Following last month's weird discussion, I can report that the game now also features the ghost carrier Graf Zeppelin. :rofl: Also a note for our Italian members - the game also feature the battleships Littorio and Roma plus 1 destroyer. ;)

....and as always it flies like clockwork. :tiphat:

The Eastern Hemisphere has been the powerhouse of Earth's development for the last few decades, and space utilization is no exception to this theorem. Today's Ariane 5 launch marks exactly that, with both passengers coming from Asia. Arabsat 6B is the newest comsat for the big Middle East...

....and another EVA is underway outside the ISS right now! This one mainly aims to restore the original configuration of the P6 truss thermal control system after it was altered during attempts to stop an ammonia leak there back in late 2012 - early 2013...

Given the current time frame, the snow will be long gone by the time the 1st Soyuz rocket can fly out of Vostochny. :rofl: I am surprised that the Russians haven't consider moving the Progress flights to Vostochny yet - given that the various satellite and inter-planetary probes are suffering...

What does this have anything to do with Sputnik 2? :blink:

To compare, here's a sounding rocket launch where the spin stabilization is working (well, it's an order of magnitude smaller than the one we are talking about....):

Well I was watching during a break from work training - just as I was thinking at T+30 s that "Hmm, isn't that spin rate a bit too high?" the rocket started to wobble and I knew it would flop sooner or later... :shifty: