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This time, it's Taiwan, always in the news,

but for a rocket startup. What's happened, Bob?

All right, so we have these actually two different failures and two different nations on the other

side of the world. First, Taiwan attempted, a Taiwan private company startup, attempted its first

suborbital launch of its small rocket from actually a new space port in

Japan. They originally wanted to launch, what do you call it, in Australia. They couldn't

make that arrangement so they switched to Japan. I suspect they don't launch out of Taiwan because

they don't want to poke the bear that sits next to them, China. But it didn't succeed.

That's not a problem when you're trying to learn how to do this.

Similarly, in Oman, its proposed Dukeham spaceport,

I think it's maybe they say it's private enterprise,

but I think it's funded by the government.

They attempted also another suborbital launch this.

This was the second attempt

out of five they want to do before the end of the year in this proposed spaceboard, all suborbital.

Neither launch so far of the two has gone off of the two of the five. Both of them were canceled

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