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China has successfully conducted the debut launch of its Long March-6 (Chang Zheng-6) rocket:
China initiated a new era in its space exploration with the debut of a new family of launch vehicle. The first Long March-6 (Chang Zheng-6) rocket was successfully launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, with a multi-payload cargo of 20 small satellites. Launch took place at 23:01:14.331 UTC on Saturday.
[...] The core stage consists of a single 120t-thrust YF-100 engine that burns oxygen and kerosene (LOX/Kerosene) propellant, which causes less pollution compared to the UDMH/N2O4 (nitrogen tetroxide) propellant currently in use. The Long March-6 is designed for small-load launch missions, with a sun-synchronous orbit (700km SSO) capability of 1,080 kg.
(Score: 3, Informative) by K_benzoate on Monday September 21 2015, @08:33AM
It was kind of a thing [wikipedia.org] in the beginning history of modern communist China.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday September 21 2015, @08:42AM
Kind of like naming a shuttle "Columbia", which of course would make no sense in Chinese, since Columbia would be 哥伦比亚. See? That would never work. Nations name things after important events in their history. Which is why I cannot understand why one mercenary contractor in Iraq (from America) was called "Custer Battles". I have been to the Little Bighorn. Not auspicious.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 21 2015, @10:19AM
With or without his final defeat, there was nothing auspicious about Custer. A pompous ass is a pompous ass, in any language.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 21 2015, @02:08PM
Which is why I cannot understand why one mercenary contractor in Iraq (from America) was called "Custer Battles". I have been to the Little Bighorn. Not auspicious.
Custer was a glory hound, but a glory hound with some notable victories to his name. In particular, he helped the North (the USA or Federals) win the crucial Battle of Gettysburg by apparently playing an important role in keeping a large Confederate cavalry force away from the rear of the Federal army during Pickett's Charge, a large frontal assault on a prepared position which was suicidal in the absence of the cavalry support. He also destroyed a cache of vital supplies during the final route of the Army of Northern Virginia (the primary force keeping the Northern armies from capturing the capital of the Confederacy/South) in 1865, forcing the surrender of that army and effectively ending the Civil War (the rest of the armies surrendered over the course of a couple of months). Those appear to be legitimate feats, though he did have the habit of routinely exaggerating his endeavors.
His defeat at Little Bighorn is a classic cautionary tale of hubris and what happens when you don't analyze a situation well enough, commit everything without a backup plan, if things go bad, and catch a bullet right at the start.
He does have his admirers even today. And maybe the name of the company is a pun as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21 2015, @09:18AM
There's another thing [urbandictionary.com] that is completely applicable here.