I adore the Russian media! Especially their euphoria about some minor events, of which make a sensation in the style of "bite, damned Yankees!".

The day before yesterday, incredibly, but a fact, a new satellite of the Russian Defense Ministry was launched into orbit. We launched it not from the cosmodrome "Vostochny" (again and again), but from the already bored everyone, the banal Plesetsk. The satellite was launched by the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket. 1 "(which this time did take off) and is intended for photographing space objects.

Actually, you can rejoice, still launched - already an achievement. But, that's the case.

Today, in the US, the Falcon 9 rocket will launch (the one that will then return back, rather than destroy a certain number of layers of the atmosphere), which will house 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. That is, one rocket, which will return for subsequent launches, puts into orbit 10 satellites, each weighing about 860 kg, that is, almost a ton of total weight. And then - one rocket, which will burn in the upper atmosphere, thereby creating another ozone scar and all for the sake of a single satellite?.

By the way, before the end of the year Falcon 9 will carry out three more similar launches. If you do not understand, it will put into orbit 30 more satellites. Something like this.

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