Is it ablative or reusable
From bananas to junk food, smh
One of the seals SpaceX is using between heat shield tiles is called Crunchwrap
A Crunchwrap Supreme is a Taco Bell food that's like a flat burrito thing with a tostada in the middle
The Oreo is on there because of a viral video of an Oreo surviving a torch
Customize: Make it Grilled
Centaur V makes so much more sense to me than Boeing blowing billions.
The Dynetics lander would have been so cool if the engineering was actually sound.
And pour one out for Altair?
The Blue Origin HLS is another option, but it also requires multi launch and orbital cryo refilling. It's planned for Artemis 5, so who knows if or when we'll see real progress on that.
I've seen multiple Hummer EV SUVs and pickups in Denver suburbs and the mountains above town. It's the perfect fit for some of the conspicuous consumption suburbanites and gorp-core finance and tech people.
Can I get one with that wrap?
LEO gap confirmed
I wonder if they would be better off issuing the paid space act agreements and start issuing task orders like CLPS. For example, the could contract 2 crew with 4 racks for 30 days, or 3 crew with 6 racks for 3 months.
They have a slightly higher orbit than Starlink, so it won't quite take as many, but they did say they need 580ish to become operational.
Their 4 launches so far put them at about 100, with about 150 manifested for the rest of 2025 (Falcon+Atlas+Vulcan+Ariane). If they pick up the pace on Vulcan and New Glenn launches, which carry 45 and 49 each, then I could see them getting to 580 by the end of 2026.
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How ATMOS Space Cargo is shaping Europe's spaceflight future through reentry capsules
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ULA to launch Atlas 5 rocket with 2nd batch of Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon (NET Jun 16)
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NASA Confirming Success of ISS Leak Repairs Before Finalizing Ax-4 Launch Date
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Ok, I'm back in. The 30 day mission is a Crewed Flight Test that NASA is formalizing in a way that sneaks Vast into the competition, which I'm fine with given how much hardware theyre building.
I don't love that. Everything Russia is doing on the ground and in orbit is such a missed opportunity to get money and set a deadline to get out of that toxic relationship. This also makes it harder to define the market for commercial stations, so private investment gets a little tougher.