"Intentionally building toward"
Having a Honeywell CEO forever, especially when they were growing like crazy, is gonna be impossible to unwind from their corporate culture and policies.
He can afford to build a new arena for every team in the league
Blue Origin with all this money and hype becoming an old space company is so disappointing.
The Artemis program was way too late in realizing that they would need a crew lander and EVA suits...
There are so many stories in the history of spaceflight of deployables not deploying, so it's completely believable that they didn't work. There are stories of astronauts kicking them, satellite operators jostling and gimbling and heating them, limited performance from partial failures...
Bigger cheaper rockets should hopefully mean less JWST Rube Goldberg style satellites because the extra volume and mass can be put to use. But it probably just means even bigger deployables...
I think the value proposition is more about national pride and security, so they can keep launching things if they have a falling out with other countries. Like when Russia decided to start a war and take Oneweb satellites hostage. Imagine a world where the US elected a crazy nationalist who wanted out of NATO...
Suni is about 20 days from hitting a year total in space, which would be a cool milestone.
I wonder what its main purpose is. I'm pretty sure all Gateway modules and visiting vehicles dock together, so they don't need an arm to help berth them the way ISS modules, Cygnus, and Dreamchaser do. So this is mainly for moving external payloads around? And holding astronauts during EVAs?
compact coupe SUV
I hate these. It's a big vehicle without better storage space. Or better visibility, because of how huge the hood is and how small the windows are. It's just big for the sake of being big.
I brought up Northrop because I'm guessing they bid a Cygnus derived deorbit vehicle.
How is this a handout? They bid for a contract and won it vs competitors.
I'm hoping we get a source selection statement soon where they spell out why companies like Northrop and Blue didn't win.
They just announced Wallops, too. They must be getting ready to really scale up.
Luckily this was already in a low orbit and these pieces will come down within a year or two. I do still want to see some debris bounties for deorbiting big dead stuff.
Underrated shout-out to the DOD for getting satellites built and ready faster than Amazon and Sierra Space?
ULA's manufacturing pictures of Atlas and Vulcan have been cool to see. "It's in the high tens of millions" isn't great, but hopefully that comes down.
Or the mythical Dragon XL?
They want to control the descent and not risk a bunch of huge chunks crashing through people's houses. Or worse.
The ISS is too low to cause Kessler syndrome.
Part of why the commercial stations won't be ready is because the ISS won't commit to a deorbit date, so they can't predict the market!
2030 should be the absolute latest, or the leaks on the Russian side will take the whole thing down.
They'll still prop up a domestic launcher for national security and pride reasons. It would be cool to see a cheaper startup break into the market and unseat Ariane and Vega.
ExoTerra raises $8 million to boost propulsion system production
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Ford now says mass-adoption needs EVs that cost the same as combustion cars.
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Starlab Space, the joint venture developing the Starlab commercial space station, has selected SpaceX’s Starship to launch the station on a single flight.
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"Just give us a sip. We'll take our 14 tons and we'll be glad to pay for it."
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk again appeared to rule out any near-term plans for spinning out his company’s Starlink broadband satellite business going public.
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Space Force assigns 21 national security missions to ULA and SpaceX
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"I just want to be out. Make as much noise as possible."
SpaceX has filed a final mishap investigation report to the FAA for its April 20 Starship integrated flight test, the FAA told Payload on Tuesday. Submitting the report is an important regulatory step toward SpaceX launching Starship on its second orbital test flight, a milestone that will req...
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SpaceX is offering a second class of rideshare missions on its Falcon 9 rocket to serve customers seeking to go to mid-inclination orbits.
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NASA's Orion spacecraft is taking a bit longer to prepare for its first crew flight.
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From the last section of the article:
>If the Artemis III landing mission moves to 2026 or later, it doesn't make much difference whether Artemis II flies in late 2024 or 2025. There's just no big rush. In fact, Free acknowledged on Tuesday that NASA is considering alternate mission profiles for Artemis III in case of significant delays to Starship and the Axiom spacesuits. > >SpaceX first needs to get the Starship rocket into orbit. Another Starship test launch could happen in the next couple of months. Then there will need to be many more test flights, including a Starship refueling demonstration in orbit, a capability without which Starship can't reach the Moon. Finally, SpaceX plans to fly a Starship test mission to land on the Moon without astronauts before committing to a crew landing. > >Free said NASA officials recently met with SpaceX's team at the Starship development site in South Texas. SpaceX provided NASA with an updated schedule of milestones to get to the Artemis III landing, but Free declined to discuss specifics of the timeline. > >"I think we’ll look at that and update around that in the near future, after we have some time to digest it," Free said. "But we’re holding all the contractors to that December of ’25 date (for Artemis III). > >"We may end up flying a different mission," Free said. "If we’re having these big slips, we’ve looked at can we do other missions, if the possibility exists there. Right now, we’re still taking a look at their schedule. The spacesuits are having a CDR (Critical Design Review) in October, so that’s obviously another piece of hardware that’s on the critical path for that mission.”