Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines, UK judge rules Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US. Israeli prosecutors detail charges against Prime Minister Netanyahu in corruption case, social leaders in form of FARC combatants killed in Colombia, and in our video section we look at the Venezuelan government's efforts to provide public services under the blockade in Caramels. In our first story, a UK court has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to the United States. The extradition was refused on the grounds that it would be to court, unjust and oppressive by reason of Mr. Assange's mental condition and high risk of suicide. The decision was announced by District Judge Vanessa Baretzer on January 4, that is today. Assange is facing the indictment from the US government on 18 counts. These are related to publishing of classified government documents on Wikileaks between 2010 and 2011. Prosecutors have accused Assange of attempting to hack into the US military databases to acquire information that supposedly put lives at risk. Assange is assertive that the information exposed abuses by the US military and there is no evidence of informants being endangered. His prosecution has been widely denounced as being politically motivated. The judge stated that while US prosecutors met the tests for Assange's extradition for trial, the US was incapable of preventing him from committing suicide. This is related to Assange's likely confinement under conditions of isolation in a US supermax prison. Serious concerns regarding Assange's physical and mental health have also previously been raised by activists and a human rights expert. United States lawyers are expected to appeal the decision within the mandated 14 day period. A full application for Assange's bail is expected to be made on Wednesday. Witesville celebrations broke out following the verdict. However, many also pointed out that the verdict was not a victory for freedom of expression as the judge has accepted most of the prosecution's claims. She turned down the extradition request only on account of the high risk of suicide. In our next story, Israeli prosecutors have released an amended indictment detailing charges in the corruption case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has been charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. A letter released by the prosecution on December 3rd, alleges 315 incidents of the Walla news agency being requested to produce favorable coverage of Netanyahu and his family. Netanyahu was reportedly personally involved in 150 of these incidents. A prosecutor has also alleged that Netanyahu promoted regulations worth millions of dollars to Walla owner Bezek Telecom in exchange. According to the letter, requests were made to promote positive articles about the Prime Minister and his family to lower or remove stories which could be disadvantageous and to change headlines. Requests were also allegedly made for negative coverage of Netanyahu's ribbons. The Prime Minister has denied all these charges and declared that he is a victim of a witch hunt. His style and corruption charges has been initiated in 2020 and is set to resume next month. He will also be facing elections in March, following the dissolution of the Israeli Parliament in December 2020. In our next story, we will go to Colombia where two social leaders and two former combatants, the now defunct revolutionary armed forces of Colombia, have been killed since January 1st. Harad and Leon were killed by armed men in the Meta Department on January 1st. On the same day, the body of Diego Higuera was discovered in the Casanare Department. People close to the latter stated that they had been unaware of his whereabouts since December 30th. Diego Higuera was found with deep knife-cuts on his body and it is possible that he was killed on December 30th itself. Both Leon and Higuera were educators and members of the Colombian Federation of Education Workers or FECODE. January 1st also marked the killing of Colombian peace accord signatory Yolanda Zavala Mazub and her sister Reina Zabala. Zabala was killed in the Antiqueer Department. On January 2nd, former FARC combatant Duvall Galindes was also assassinated in the Cageta Department. Both Zabala and Galindes have been members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC. The organization was disarmed after the signing of a peace record with the Colombian state in 2016. As a result of these accords, the group morphed into a political party commonly known as the Common Alternative Revolutionary Forces. 251 former FARC combatants have been killed in Colombia till date. FARC has condemned these killings and has accused the right-wing government of Iván Duque for failing to comply with the peace accords. These killings have occurred in the context of increasing persecution of social activists and movements in the country. For a final story, we go to Caracas, Venezuela, where the financial blockade by the United States has restricted crucial imports and access to basic services. Here is Caracas Mayor Erika Farias discussing how the government is coping with the blockade and is providing food, gas and transportation services to citizens. I am going to explain the distribution of gas and all that has to do with the maintenance of the war, what has been what we have done. One is the popular organization, supporting the work that is sometimes complicated with institutions and with the same mechanisms and responses that we must have with the popular organization. In terms of transportation, we have created the mobility tables and alongside the city's transportation, we have generated policies to reorganize and provide a service of greater quality to our people and make changes to the routes that our people normally use to move from a parish, from one sector to another. And we have had to create express routes, routes that connect several areas of the city, outside of what the city center is, to be able to guarantee mobility and, of course, everything that has to do with reposts, parts and parts that the national government is trying to distribute under the criteria precisely of that work that we do between the popular power and the line of transport that is done. In relation to the issue of gas, it is the same, organizing the distribution of gas for the communities is for us, we could say it in some way easy because in 2007 we created a distribution system of food, the local committee of supply and production, product of the rupture of all the commercialization mechanisms and distribution that there was in the public and private country, that is, it was not only here in this blockade and in this crisis, it has not only suffered the public system, it was also perforated distribution mechanisms and commercialization in the private sector and we did an organization, our president Nicolás Maduro asked us to create a new distribution system and commercialization and the local committees of supply and production are born, which is a network that covers all of a spider web, so to speak, in some way, of communities, sparrows, sectors, axes, so that the community comes monthly or every 21 days a food combo to help counteract the crisis, I give you for example a figure in Caracas there are 2,700 communities and 14,500 streets in Caracas are distributed 782,000 food combos every 21 days at a price more than succeeded for our people and complementary to that there are food houses where food dishes are produced for people who have greater vulnerability and there is also a program that in addition to the school food program that works in all the schools in the city we also have the plan to attend to the people who have nutritional deficit that they are already expressing nutritional deficit and well there is a tension there that is not perfect but we are perfecting it in the medium that the popular organization is in charge of located case by case or house by house street by street community by community those families that are being expressed with greater difficulty the blockade of the that's all your time for today be back tomorrow with more news from around the world until then keep watching People's Dispatch


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We're here to talk about that loading screen and the players that were dropped just yesterday inside of FIFA 22 Ultimate Team road to the knockouts, also abbreviated as RTTK. I wanna talk about the cards that we got yesterday, how they're gonna upgrade, what's the deal with them, and how the market crashed again. Another promo Friday with more pack supply, more market crashing. We saw a new pack in the store, the 45K pack, and I just wanna talk about why those prices went down and also start to talk about how maybe tonight, late into the night, Friday into Saturday morning and into today on Saturday, we might see a decent bit of a rise on this market just like we saw last week. So right now the market is up as I'm recording this video but I expect it to drop into the late Friday night and early Saturday morning timeframe. So let's talk about what happened today on this game. Now, this is the team. Obviously you guys have seen this. This was the team that it was released in packs and you're like, okay, there's some cool cards. A lot of people, there's a lot of mixed opinions, right? A lot of people are happy with these cards because it's new cards, usable items that fit right into a lot of you guys' teams.  We love that. We like live upgrading cards, very cool. There's a lot of downside to this though too. It's because a lot of these cards are in positions in their groups or in their competitions whether it's Europa League, Conference League, or Champions League, where it doesn't look like their card's gonna get an upgrade. So it's basically just a promo team of cards with an upgrade that's not gonna happen until late November at the earliest. And that for some reason, for some people is making it not very hyped. Also the player selection, right? We've got Marquinhos, that's a big name player, and Hyunmin Son, Leroy Sonny is a pretty big name. Other than that though, there's not anybody from Manchester United, no Manchester City, no Chelsea, right? There's a lot of teams and no Liverpool as well. A lot of Premier League. There wasn't a lot of Premier League representation besides Diop and Son in this team. And a lot of people think that the player selection could have been better. But with the players that we do have, I think it's a W, right? We have a lot of nice players in here. That Treore card is nice. Esauk is one of the most hyped up cards released today. Marquinhos is a dub. And then you also have to factor in the live upgrading portion to these cards too. As we saw on the loading screen, these cards get upgraded in two different ways. Basically, instead of the road to the final, road to the final, that final is like the big end goal, right? Our big end goal for these cards is just getting to the knockout stage, right? And that happens at the end of December or the beginning of December, the end of November is when those births will be clinched, I guess you could say. And that's how they get upgraded. If the team qualifies for the knockout stages of their current competition, they will get upgraded. And if the club earns three wins from their four remaining group stage matches, which the first matches start this week, that's how they get a secondary upgrade. So there's two potential upgrades for these cards over the course of basically the next two months.  But the first upgrades we should see in about a little over a month, right? Like the end of November is match day five. So this week we have match day three coming up. So if teams can win the first three games, they can get their upgrade right away and some will get, they will clinch their birth into the knockout stages on that match day five. So a little bit of what we have to talk about today too is just that that upgrade timeframe is just not very soon. And yes, these cards are live and they're gonna fluctuate, but a lot of these cards too, their clubs are kind of low. These cards are all over the place, right? Marquinhos and PSG, Bayern and Sane, they're at the top of their groups looking like they're gonna coast through to the knockout stages. Whereas some of these other teams, like Leipzig, like Tonali and Milan, Inter and Vidal, they're in some tough spots. So that's what makes it interesting and maybe a bit, some of these cards look like they won't get upgraded, like Mucchiele and Leipzig, two games played, two lost, zero points right now, right? Milan is also on zero points in group B. Group C, you've got Ajax, right on six points. So that one looks pretty good with Gravenberge. This card getting a potential upgrade looks good. But if you look through this team, there's a bit of a downside with some of these cards and how they actually might get upgraded. You take a look at Esok, even, Real Sociedad, two games played, two draws, so they're on two points. So they're in position to maybe make a comeback and spring forward into the top of the group. So it's early, right? And it's gonna be fun to follow these fluctuations. They're gonna be great to trade with based, especially on those cards like Esok, like Vidal, that are on the border, their borderline being, getting on to the knockout stages or not. So we're gonna continue to monitor those over the next couple of weeks as we go throughout this game as these are live items and they will get at least one, maybe if not two, upgrade. So that's gonna be cool as we see that. But those are the cards that are in packs. And that was kind of the highlight of content if I'm being completely honest yesterday. The other cards that were released via objectives and via SBCs, in my opinion, are not that hot. This Andre card, it looks okay. It's just not that good, right? I think they needed to give them a bigger juice and Lille right now in their group, I believe is sitting in last place. Yes, Lille is sitting on one point in group G. Definitely not out of the question yet to move out of that group, but it doesn't look that good. And you need upgrades on this Andre card for it to look good. So if you're gonna grind this objective, which isn't super-duper hard, but you know, group stage glory, I don't even know what that friendly mode looks like. Nine matches, win nine matches, score finesse goals. So if you wanna grind that out, you can. I just don't think that's the best card in objectives. And I think the Delict SBC is nice. I think this is a decently priced SBC and it is an okay card. But look at the card right next to him in the SBC section, Kulabali. If you're doing Delict, why not do Kulabali unless you already have done it? Because I think this Kulabali card looks just as good, if not better than Delict will after Delict gets one or two upgrades. Because this guy already has the 83 pace, 89 defense, 87 physical. Delict will have above 90 physical and high 80s defense with a couple upgrades, but he'll barely crack 80 pace, whereas sprint speed and pace on center backs in this game is so important and Kulabali has 89 sprint speed. And with an upgrade, Delict is not gonna come close to that. He's gonna be like 83 or 84 max. So I think this Kulabali for the price point right now is a better SBC than Delict, if I'm being completely honest. People say Kulabali is cracked in game. So besides that, I think the content today is nice, but the bigger content on this game was the no loss glitch and the market movements that were happening because of that no loss glitch on the market. Supplying the market with team of the weak cards, if you guys did not know, I believe it has since been patched. I've been like hearing and seeing things on Twitter that the no loss glitch has been patched, but there was a no loss glitch going around in footchamps and people were doing this no loss glitch. And basically what they were doing was using this glitch to get themselves a higher win count total in the weekend league in footchampions. And therefore they were getting higher rewards and they were getting team of the weak packs and opening team of the weak packs, right? Cause we can open early on Fridays. So this team of the week yesterday, if we take a look at some of these graphs, I'll show you these prices. They had incredible drop offs in price because of all of the insane supply in such a short amount of time. 87,000 coins under Afinha all the way down to 62. He's been rising up into the higher 60s. Of course, as a lot of people saw these prices and like, man, these were way too cheap. Take a look at informed Teo Hernandez. He was down at 200,000 coins flat after being 290. Went down to 200, he was actually 200K flat. This doesn't do it justice. He was 200K flat before now rising back up. Mane was 820K, now he's 870. So just insane, insane drop offs in price on a lot of these informs today. We might have seen the lowest, depending on what content comes out for the rest of this weekend. Lozano was like 30K flat at one point during the promo pack supply too. We might have seen the low point for team of the week four today. I think today or last night Friday in the daytime and maybe a little bit today on Saturday if there's more depending on the supply and depending on the panic selling today, that might be the low point for team of the week four as there's a lot of meta cards in here and people are gonna start to buy them up and put them in their teams. And that was a crazy happening yesterday on the market. But if we take a look at the index 100 in general, just as we expected, right?  A lot of your golds dropped. Again, the informs dropped. A lot of stuff on this game just dropped in general yesterday because of the supply. They put a brand new pack in the store, a 45,000 coin promo pack, which is 12 gold, six rares, including 182 plus overall player guaranteed. Now, looking at the pack probabilities, UCL wrote to the final player, 1.7%, UEL under one and UECL under one. The pack odds for these cards, they're low. These are very low. Remember last week, it's less than 1% for a UCL road to the knockout player right now from a 25K pack. Last week with UCL cards from 25Ks, it was 2.5%. So these cards are definitely more rare than the ones to watch cards were last week. But again, what you had a lot of today was just supply, supply, supply on the gold cards that were in pack specifically. Usman Dabeli was 70K to start the day on Friday and he was all the way down to 58K during lightning rounds. Now, of course, the Rodrigo card dropped his price a little bit, but you just saw prices across this entire game going down. Llorente, right? A very popular card at the moment with Lilega Lynx being very popular. This Llorente card was down to 130K. He's risen back up to right around high 140s, 150,000 coins. There were just tons of price drops on this game yesterday in that first 30 minutes. Basically the first 30 minutes when all those saved up packs were opened, all the promo packs were spanned, that's when you saw these prices drop the most. DeYoung was down, he was 110 this morning, went down to about 95K and is now back up almost back to 110,000 coins, right? Goretzka was 160, he went down in the 140s, now back to 155. So you saw a lot of movements on this market today just as we expected. If you wanted to buy a team with gold cards Friday during that first 30 minutes with the promo pack supply, was your time. That was an absolute great time to buy some of those cards. Now we'll talk about the promo cards here in a second. Hero cards have rebounded very nicely, they got supplied, I bought a Morientes at 250, I thought that drop was too big. Again, with that Esau card being out and with the Rodrigo card being out, Player of the Month, Benzema being very hyped up at the moment, LaLiga is a very hyped league in this game. And so is Serie A. Melita went 160 all the way up to 202 with the big boy midfielders, Tonali and Vidal being released today. A lot of people were trying those cards out on this game. So you saw a lot of prices move upwards on heroes, on icons, on the out-of-packs team of the weeks. We take a look at maybe team of the week three. Sun was rumored to be in the team, he did get in the team. He went from 515K all the way up to 559. So a nice rebound on his card right there. Gabriela Jesus was panic sold down under 200K. He is back up now. Barela was 125, he's back up to 137. So the out-of-packs stuff was the safest play for sure. Kimmich was 190, he's now 212. Salah was 600, he was just 650 a minute ago. So that part of the market and icons rebounded very well again because the promo today wasn't anything, anything like shocking and super spectacular. Now I bought a lot of icons and flipped some icons today. It was a great time for flipping these cards. And what I'm gonna say is you've seen this market rise up a lot, right? You've seen the market rise up some, like we talked about, Urenta was 130, he's now 150. Or we looked like this Balak, I bought at 650, sold him at 707. I bought this Maka Lele at 660K. He was just the cheapest up at 730, now he's getting undercut a little bit. And there's a 690 undercut. I'm gonna leave mine since it's fresh right around 730, see if we can get a nice bit of profit there. But, oh, I bought Alfonso Davies too. I have a couple Alfonso Davies that I bought for, what did I get these for? Two Alfonso Davies at 52K, 52K flat for Davies. And with a couple Bundesliga cards being hyped up out of this team, and people using Bundesliga, like with Wurz, play of the month being out, I thought this was a good buy. How much is Davies at the moment? Alfonso Davies is not quite 60K, but he's almost there. These are the types of cards that I want you guys to be watching tonight. Late Friday night into the Saturday morning timeframe. I know this video is dropping early Saturday morning. I'm talking tonight US time. I'm talking tonight USA time, where I am from. So early morning, UK. I'm talking like five, six AM UK time, or basically when you wake up and watch this video, take a look at some gold cards on the market. This Davies card went from down to 51, 52K. He's back up to about 56, 57. If this card, or let's use Marcus Rente as our example again, if this guy drops back down, so Marcus Rente is basically 150 at the moment. Right now what you have are a lot of people, this is the hot time on the market right now. A lot of people have open packs. They've gotten coins. They're going out, building squads, putting together teams with the promo cards, or with the coins that they have gotten to play Weekend League and to play games. What they're gonna do is a lot of people start to sell off, and this happened big time last week. A lot of sell off happened in the late Friday night US time into Saturday UK time. So Saturday morning UK time, like early early, when this video comes out, the market should be a bit lower. You're gonna see these promo cards drop a bit off in price too. And basically the very meta parts of this market, right? The golds did well, the informs should do well. Just watch for big price dips and price drop offs even on these promo cards too, right? E-Soc today, I wanna take a look at this E-Soc card because it's not gonna show this probably, but he had an insane, insane fluctuation. When this card was first dropped into packs, he was getting bought for 110,000 coins. It shows 150, but he was actually 110. Here we go, 115, 115, right? 112,000 coins, and look where he went. He went all the way up into the 190s. He's now dropped back to 143K. Keep a close eye on this card tonight because he is very hyped up. A lot of people are using him, and they wanna try him out, right? And they're gonna wake up on Saturday today and wanna try this card. Mukielle, 74K, Vidal has dropped 30,000 coins. He was 130, Tanali was 170, Rodrigo was 330,000 coins, right? So, some of these really popular cards, like even Treore was 62K, now he's 47K. Watch these cards kinda drop off into the late night, early morning UK hours, and see if you can snag any of these cards at a low price. Kinda when you're looking around this video, or even in the early morning hours of Saturday as after this video goes out, I would really watch the informs from this week's team of the week. I'd watch gold cards like Rashford, like DeYoung, Mendy, Werner, Taylor Hernandez, even though he's out of packs. Raheem Sterling, 48,000 coins. That's a big drop off for him. He was like 60K at one point this past week. Yeah, I mean, he was probably like 44, 45K during the lighting rounds. I didn't check on Sterling, but that's a really big drop off in the past 24 hours. So, keep an eye for more drop offs tonight because I think you will see the market rise nicely into Saturday as people wake up on Saturday and wanna go play games. They wanna go play footchamps. They wanna play the weekend league and they wanna get games in that competition. So, really keep an eye on that part of the market this evening. That'll be my number one tip. Now, if you wanna trade with icons, it's a great time to be doing some of that as well. A lot of these cards got traded off and they get very rare. Friday nights into Saturdays, these cards get rare. And last week what we saw is a lot of them go up in price. This Seedorf was 630K earlier today. And right now he's 690,000 coins. Petit was in the low 700s. What is he right now? High 700s, right? So, there's profit that there was to be made there. Rooney was 760. And I believe he was just over 800K as well. One of my friends sold him at 830. I bought a Bajio at 750. Sold it over 800,000 coins. So, just look for the rarity. Like this Terry-Henry is a great icon to trade with. Wow, he's 1.2 right now. It's crazy, crazy high, right? As you've seen, a lot of this stuff is pretty high. On this market, only the promo cards are starting to dip off a little bit as people have traded with them. So, follow this market into the nighttime. Of course, when this video is released, it's gonna be that nighttime timeframe. So, that's why I wanted to talk about just potential to buy some of these cards as you're looking at this video. Look at the hero cards, look at the golds, and some of that. And I do think there'll be an opportunity to trade and to fluctuate, fluctuation trade with some of these cards today on this game. Now, I'm gonna list this up at 7, let's go 747. I'm gonna give this a little bit of time. Icons get rare at night, so we should be good there. And I'm actually gonna list up my Alfonso Davies. I'll list them up for some Lazy. Let's see, Lazy buyers are in full effect too. So, I'm gonna list them, I'm gonna list these at 60, let's go 57, right? It's just a little bit of profit per card. But that's what I'd be looking for. If Alfonso Davies drops back to 52K tonight, then I'm gonna look to buy them again. I'm gonna look to buy them again and probably with no more supply coming on the market and people wanting to wake up and play footchamps, he could rise back up to around 57, 58K. I know that's not a lot of profit per card, but it's a small flip that you can make in a short timeframe, time window, that could be really, really good and make you some coins today. So, that's what I would watch for on the market. Otherwise, I think we'll probably see another objective or SPC player today. If you think back to ones to watch, they'll probably drop these SPC players or objective players pretty early. So, I would expect today to see another SPC, hopefully somebody from a big team, a nice card that would move the market a bit, maybe move some SPC fodder as well and then maybe another objective player today on Saturday. So, that's gonna be very interesting to see how that moves and how that moves around on the market. But, crazy day, right? A lot of prices dropping down, a lot of profit was made. I bought a lot of icons yesterday, man. You saw my transfer list. These icons were traded before the content drop, after the content drop. This Morientes was a good flip. I bought this before he went out of packs, I bought it at 97, I think, sold it at 109, little 10 and it flipped there. So, it was a really profitable day on a lot of the icons and a lot of the heroes moved as well. So, I'm gonna sell these cards, take my profit tonight. It was a good day of making coins and we'll continue to see if we can make some money into the day today on Saturday. So, that's the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Butta Count and I'll catch you guys later. Peace.


Named for the 16th president, Lincoln County offers a diverse landscape from high mountains in the Snake River in the north to the sedimentary hills in the south. It's a popular destination for recreationists with the famous Salt and Graze rivers originating within its borders. Star Valley is a fertile basin in the northern part of the county. Historically it's been a hotbed of dairy activity. Despite a decline in large dairies there are still many small farms and family ranches. The relatively wet moderate climate compared to other areas in western Wyoming lends itself to successful agricultural endeavors. Traveling south over Salt River Pass the Wyoming and Salt River mountain ranges taper into broken hills full of fossilized creatures from the past. Fossil Butte National Monument near Kimmer offers a visitor's center with displays of local collections. While you're in Kimmer check out the first JC penny store opened in 1902. Whether you come for the abundant natural resources or rich history a trip to Lincoln County is well worth your time. For University of Wyoming Extension this is Glenn Owings exploring the nature of Wyoming.


In commemoration of Yuri Gagarin being the first human to space on April 12, 1961, I wanted to talk about the other nations of the world who have traveled down the path to space. This is your space pod for April 7, 2015. Last week I talked about Iran and the steps they are taking to achieve human spaceflight, but today I wanted to talk about some of the other nations who in the past launched their first satellites on their own rockets. The reason I want to talk about these nations launching their first satellites is because having the capability to launch a satellite into orbit paves the way if they choose to be able to launch humans into space, and many of the nations who have achieved human spaceflight flew on either similar rockets to the ones that launched their first satellites or derivatives of those rockets. With Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space being such a special occasion, I wanted to pay tribute to these nations who were able to achieve that very hard step of being able to launch a satellite into orbit, and being able to enable this present time that we live in with the internet and cable television and cat videos, and being able to argue with strangers halfway across the world. It's awesome! So I'd like to give a quick rundown of the nations who have been able to launch their own satellite into orbit. Here we go. As most people know, the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, followed by the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1, launched on February 1, 1958. Although that satellite is not quite as well known, the other nations and satellites that were launched after the Soviet Union in the United States are even less well known. Many nations have built and operated satellites that were launched by other countries. For example, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy were the third, fourth, and fifth nations, respectively, to operate their own satellite. However, their satellites were launched by NASA rockets. So I wanted to focus today more on the nations who have launched their own satellites on their own domestically built rockets. The third nation to launch its own satellite on its own rocket was France on November 26, 1965. They launched the Asterix satellite on their Diamant A rocket from Hamaquir, Algeria. Something notable about the launch site is that it was used by France between 1947 and 1967 for sounding rockets and orbital launches before they started using their launch site in Corot, French Guiana. Not only is Corot a better site to launch from since its downrange is over the Atlantic Ocean, but Algeria, gaining independence from France in 1962, may have also influenced that decision to move launch sites as well. France developed its Diamant rockets between 1962 and 1975, when it decided to retire the rocket in favor of the Ariane family of rockets with the European Space Agency. We'll talk more about the Ariane rocket and its precursors in a future space pod. The fourth nation to launch its own satellite on its own rocket was Japan on February 11, 1970. They launched their Osumi satellite on their Lambda 4S-5 rocket. It's a three-stage, all-solid-propellant, small orbital satellite launch vehicle, very small satellite. Its max payload was only 26 kilograms or 57 pounds. It launched from the Uchinora Space Center, formerly the Kagoshima Space Center, in southern Japan and is still used to launch their Epsilon rocket. Their main launch site is the Tanagashima Space Center, where their heavy H-2 series of rockets are launched from. China was the fifth nation to launch its own satellite. The Dongfang Hong-1, also known as China-1, on its own rocket, Long March-1, also known as Chang Jiang-1, and this launch occurred on April 24, 1970. Something that's interesting about the Long March-1 is it was only launched three times before it was retired, but we'll talk more in detail about China's rocket program in another space pod. Anyway, the sixth nation was the United Kingdom, launching their Prospero satellite on their Black Arrow rocket from Rumera, Australia, on October 28, 1971. Britain is the only country to develop and then later abandon its satellite launcher capability in favor of the United States' Scout rocket at the time, and then later for the European Space Agency's Ariane family of rockets. Although France also abandoned their indigenous rocket program, the Ariane is roughly 60% built by France, so they at least kind of have partial independence in having their own satellite launch capability today. In the late 70s, after organizational and political changes, there were a lot more opportunities that sprung up, and many more nations began developing their own satellites and rockets, and we're going to talk about those projects in the next space pod. It really is amazing to me that these simple satellites but complex rockets paved the way to be able to do so much cool stuff like communication satellites and geostationary orbit and observation and weather satellites and even to a certain extent spy satellites. It's just amazing to me and I can't imagine a world without satellites. So anyway, the next time you see a space pod from me, we're going to pick up where we left off on the other nations and even companies who launched their first satellites into orbit. If you haven't seen it already, yesterday Ariel Waldman had a really cool video about Hayabusa 2, so you definitely should check that out. 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