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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, technically, Russia is in Europe.

Also, as the guys at NASA said back in the day, it takes a thousand failures to create one working rocket. Don't look at something halfway done and call it a failure.

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't they do most of their launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan?

[–] CrateDane@feddit.dk 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, but they do have Plesetsk in the European part of Russia. Only used for unmanned launches.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

I'll edit my comment

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is it? I thought technically it was in Asia?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Russia is like Turkey partial in europe. Whereas in Turkey its only part of Istanbul, Russia is up to the ural mountains.

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Mountains

[–] kubica@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago

RU is in Europe, and SSIA in Asia.

Any pretty much everything east of Ural mountains was colonised by Russian slavs. The native indigenous peoples often do not consider themselves russian.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

The actual Russian part is the European part, though.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] CrateDane@feddit.dk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It has a small part in Europe, west of the Ural river. The vast majority of it is in Asia, and I would largely consider it an Asian country.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago
[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Schrödinger's Country.

Sometimes it's in Europe and sometimes it's in Asia.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not very orbital, then, is it. Jokes aside, rocketry is hard and I hope they gained the data to make it work next time.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s pretty much a requirement for a new space company to crash their first rocket. At least that’s my default expectation. Space is crazy hard.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Did they forgot about the abort mission function?
That rocket went ballistic into the ground.

Also, years of years of rockets (and missiles) development, and it's still so difficult.

[–] drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] deeferg@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How dare they zoom back out but not show it falling to the ground.

I can always imagine the tight feeling in the engineers chests as they watch it start to go sideways.1

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where did they launch from?

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

From here :

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The rocket lifted off from the pad at 12.30 p.m local time (11.30am BST) ... ... explosion just after its launch from from the Andøya spaceport in the Arctic.
... exploded less than a minute after takeoff from Norway on Sunday ... (( ... on 3rd rock from the sun)).

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

It crashed? Go read the telemetry and see what went wrong. Try again.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Article said they said 30 seconds would be a success. Not clear how long it stayed up? Clock froze at +18 seconds.