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S8 Ep326: GLOBAL SPACE FAILURES AND CHINA'S REUSABLE CRAFT CLAIMS Colleague Bob Zimmerman. Zimmerman analyzes a failed Indian rocket launch that lost multiple payloads, though a Spanish prototype survived. He also critiques the European Space Agency for delays in d

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🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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GLOBAL SPACE FAILURES AND CHINA'S REUSABLE CRAFT CLAIMS Colleague Bob Zimmerman. Zimmerman analyzes a failed Indian rocket launch that lost multiple payloads, though a Spanish prototype survived. He also critiques the European Space Agency for delays in debris removal missions and casts doubt on China's claims regarding a "new" reusable spacecraft, suggesting it relies on older suborbital technology. NUMBER 8
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I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman.

1:00.4

We're looking at space engineering and the European prototype for a capsule.

1:02.4

About time, Bob. What is it?

1:07.5

Well, this is not such good news in a sense, but it's partly good news.

1:15.1

Last week, India attempted to launch, make its first launch this year with its PSLV rocket,

1:16.3

and the launch was a failure.

1:19.8

For the second time in a row, the third stage failed.

1:23.9

And so all the payloads and satellites on that were failures.

1:26.1

They were like 15 or 16.

1:30.1

I've heard conflicting numbers up to 18 different payloads, and they all were failures. Well, it appears one was not a complete failure. A Spanish startup

1:35.2

called Orbital Paradine had put a demo capsule on this, and they were going to test. This is

1:43.6

a reentry capsule. It's like Varda's reentry

1:45.8

capsules. They launched for a period of time. You can do manufacturing or testing or experiments in

1:53.0

space, and then the capsule comes back with its experiments. So they were going to test this

1:59.9

and test its reentry capabilities. Well, it appears that even though they didn't get everything they wanted, they actually did after the third stage failed, this capsule apparently separated and they got 190 seconds of flight data transmitted and received.

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