Correction: the German space company was Isar aerospace; they launched from spaceport Andoya Space, located in Norway.

For now, The Exploration Company developed a reusable space capsule (not a launcher). Their demo was launched by Falcon-9 mission Transporter-14 (June 2025) https://www.spacevoyaging.com/... . It did survive atmospheric reentry, but parachutes failed to deploy.

Note that the parent poster could be confused with German space company Andoya Space, which successfully launched their rocket Spectrum from Norway last week.

The UN is nothing more than the set of the governments of this world. To understand better how it works, replace "The UN" by "The USA". The UN enforcing peace peace involves the USA sending their o soldiers in UN-lettering blue helmets catch bullets in Ukraine. It's not "The UN" that isn't motivated. "The UN" want peace, but can't find member countries to sending to an interposition force.

I think the UN did not recommend anything in particular but for information France announced their choice as Eckert IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The resolution is about encouraging "governments and education [and tech companies]". Governments publish PDF reports and schools post paper maps on the wall; plus the vast majority of the schools in the world use paper books (even if alongside electronic options in a few of them).

South Africa has a thriving car industry with local manufacturers and assembly of foreign cars. Kenya and Ethopia make their own cars as well.

You misunderstand how it works. The UN is a platform for diplomacy. A country or a group of countries call a topic for discussion to the General Assembly. It is then discussed until possibly a vote on a resolution can be held. The UN provides the infrastructure for the discussions to happen, not a Great Leader that chooses which topics can be discussed or not.

Also, topics do not need to be top agenda. Taking care only of top agenda item is a very fuced up way to handle an agenda, or workload, or business. You have to be able to handle multiple things at a time.

I meant space rockets.

Russia does launch rockets from its soil. They use Baikonur, Kazakhstan, a country considered Central Asian.

The headline can remove "Western [Europe]" by swapping it for "private [Rocket]", both being separately a historical first.

Fine to repackage their offer as traffic analytics as long as it is actually just that, meaning entirely giving up on licence plate OCR (the enabler of surveillance and law enforcement side of their product package).

"Would you like to be part of a pilot study for a temporary kidney until the waiting list clears and you can get a final transplant"

I'm not entering argument about your whole point, just for fun, but there are in total 17 countries without military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (mostly small islands: Palau, Vanuatu, Tuvalu...), plus 4 who formally abolished their army plus keep a police force that has limited military-like power: Costa Rica, Mauritius, Monaco, Panama

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Interesting correction. However, if he still found heartwarming to see such extreme opinions to be associated with country and its flag. This already tells something about him feeling compatible with these opinions, and willing to see them associated to his country.