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The Russians had too many issues with their launchers in the past years, so this seems to be part of a trend, and not an isolated case. As you said, this is ro
by tzfld 8y ago
The Russians had too many issues with their launchers in the past years, so this seems to be part of a trend, and not an isolated case.
As you said, this is rocket science. High corruption level and incompetent officials can be very destructive in domains like space exploration.
- solarkraft 8y agoUnfortunately that's not a great argument for moving more of the work to the US :-)
- craftyguy 8y agoMaybe a case of "the corruption you might stand a chance to expose, vs. the corruption you don't"?
- adventured 8y agoThe US doesn't suffer from a very high level of corruption. So yes, it's a reasonable argument for moving more of the work to the US. Transparency International ranks the US with Belgium and just behind Australia and Iceland on corruption. Russia is #135, below Ukraine and Myanmar.
- adrianN 8y agoEh, launch failures are probably approximately Poisson distributed. It's not unlikely for them to appear in clumps.