1. Your country
2. How advanced is your nation's space program?
1. Your country
>USA
>We own the International Space Station because we have the deadliest nukes
enough to have our personnal launchpad
We have our own launchpads too...?
VERY
sure, never said you didn't have
how many countries have one, though?
and how many have one being the busiest one in the world and able to launch the biggest payload?
the most advanced in the world
i don't think it was meant as banter, frenchbro just wanted to point out that they are in the small club of nations with their own launchpads
>germany
>spaceprogramm has never recovered from world war II
>all we have left is the mission controll center of the ESA and a stake in some companies
>we secretly want some credit for the first moon landing because of wernher von braun and countless other guys who went to the USA and the USSR
not before we nuke you
I think the Chinese have made some noteworthy achievements foraying into space. However, America will always be superior. Right now I see our two nations competing in a space race to see who can develop slipstream space time war technology first.
>mission control center of the ESA
How many of those are in Europe? If you possess the only one then you hold the most space power in Western Europe....
>we want credit
Nah, man. Don't make me put you in the ejection tube and eject you into the atmosphere
more advanced than you muhammad
nexo knights are shit as fuck, and i'm tired of ninjago
make lord of the ring sets again
it is the only one but i would rather have something like the research and technologie center witch resides in the fucking netherlands or more than a 20% stake of the company that builds our launch vehicles
on the plus side we also have the astronaut training facilities but on the other side - what the hell does ESA want with astronauts once the ISS is defunct
literally only just made a space agency last year
better late than never
you should build a nice launch pad for smaller experimental rockets on tokelau or something
Cutting edge
>more than a 20% stake of the company that builds our launch vehicles
You mean like shares of Elon Musk's SpaceEx or Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions? Who wouldn't want to own a 20% share in investments like those! Get in line, kid.
>would rather have something like the research and technologie center
Yeah, it would be nice to have something like that for prestige and national pride.
we are very advanced in designing satellites/payloads and specific parts of rocket science, especially in Glasgow
we do a lot of work building specialist parts on behalf of much smaller space programmes
but we dont build actual rockets much, as we have bet all of our money on SSTO hybrid spaceplane technology. If our Skylon Spaceplane ends up working out we will instantly leapfrog forward into 2nd place in the Space Race, but if it doesnt we will remain in our current mediocre 4th-6th place position for the foreseeable future
we lead the world in jet engine design, and we are currently sitting on a goldmine of topsecret supercompressor technology that no other country has figured out, so im cautiously optimistic about our aerospace future
>tfw too poor to buy the lego Saturn V
it's not like that we own literally 20% of the stock but german companies hold 19,85% of arianespace
compare that with the france who has 64,1%
i guess germany should be happy with what we, have but i still have the feeling that compared to our economic and technological power in the world we kind of missed out because coming from the leading position in rocket developement we did literally nothing between 1945 and the founding of ESA in 1975
>After gaining U.S. citizenship
This thing is coming up in 2 years hopefully en.wikipedia.org
>en.wikipedia.org
Sorry sweatie, but you guys don't even own your own space station.
America has its own launch pads Frenchie, get over it.
These national rivalries mean nothing to me. I just like science.
you should remind yourself that at this time the iss depends solely on the russians
in theory they could decouple their 2,5 moduls and have an intact space station and the rest of the iss would be the biggest ghost orbital ghost town in human history
Be right back, guys
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Yea but they won't because we own them too
the USA just stuck to long on the space shuttle
they should have started the developement of a new launch vehicle 10 years early and nobody would be able to attack your total supremacy in space
the budget is around 24 millions so i'm pretty sure they're doing great with that repulsive capital, we could be more advanced if some monkey in the 90s didn't stopped the Condor, if there's something i can't criticize about the previous goverment was the cience programms
Why hasn't the Russian eaten my bait
is there a possible chance for a latin american version of ESA?
rest of the world btfo
newshub.co.nz
We will soon have a space program.
timesofmalta.com
fuck yeah! crusaders with spaceplanes
do they have an realistic timetable or is it vaporware?
where in malta do you live? i used to go there a lot when i was young
It's only Argentina who has a decent space programm with experience, Brazil has one too but their budget is even more reduced than us although they've been more active than us in the last 15 years. So answering your question, i think it's possible, but it will nowhere near ESA, NASA or RosCosmos
The project is entirely feasible from a technical standpoint. We have the facilities for a spaceport.
The current private company, Orbital Access, did win a small contract from ESA to refine their launcher. Maybe something will come of it.
has the university of malta a good tecnical program? it wold be neat if you could build up some homegrown talent
i have honestly no idea how much experience latin american countries have with aerospace technology, i was more concerned about the financial side of the whole enterprise
aerospace or space?
But we Europeans are co-owners, otherwise it would be called American Space Station, which would result in an unfortunate abbreviation.
Worse than best korea
one ends the other begins...
the biggest aircraft mainfacturers are also building spaceships, sattelites, launch vehicles etc.
Airbus
Boeing
Lockheed-Martin
just to name the big three of the western hemisphere
i know only one latin american aerospace company (embraer) and they have as far as i know never dabbled in spaceflight. but since i know to little about the subject concerning latin america i am just curious
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Stand back faggits.