Spacecraft has deployed solar panels, currently still calculating orbit accuracy I believe. Everything seems to have gone smoothly.
Update: actual orbit matches target orbit
Update 2: launch has been officially declared success
When will they dock?
Spacecraft has deployed solar panels, currently still calculating orbit accuracy I believe. Everything seems to have gone smoothly.
Update: actual orbit matches target orbit
Update 2: launch has been officially declared success
I hear in 6 hoursWhen will they dock?
Nonsense, Russia siding with China is out of necessity for further economic growth and scientific collaboration, not an hedge.Russia is playing a game. If Putin manage to extract a promise from Biden that the US and NATO will respect Russia’s primacy in the former Czarist sphere of influence, Russia will immediately drop collaboration with China in any field that makes the US nervous.
The main question is whether the US can admit to herself that she has been overplaying her hand with respect to Russia during the last 20 years, and her capacity to simultaneously contain both russian and china is weak.
Russia and Putin sees this, and wants to leverage the fact that in the long run Russia’s capacity to reduce American global influence is much less than those of the chinese. So it wants something from the US for not taking China’s side.