Already been posted yesterday, sorry

That’s pretty cool!

As this has been widely speculated already, this is not a surprise. Super great to see this move forward at pace!

“Sanity prevails” Thank goodness

This was such a refreshing article to read. The NRHO requirement was so stupid. I’m so glad Jared is helping to move the program forward.

Cancellation of the Exploration Upper Stage and Block IB upgrade for SLS rocket

Artemis II and Artemis III missions will use the SLS rocket with existing upper stage

Artemis IV, V (and any additional missions, should there be) will use a “standardized” upper stage

Artemis III will no longer land on the Moon; rather Orion will launch on SLS and dock with Starship and/or Blue Moon landers in low-Earth orbit

Artemis IV is now the first lunar landing mission

NASA will seek to fly Artemis missions annually, starting with Artemis III in “mid” 2027, followed by at least one lunar landing in 2028

NASA is working with SpaceX and Blue Origin to accelerate their development of commercial lunar landers for Artemis IV and beyond

The openness with which this was presented has been so refreshing.

I have a feeling this is more about the launch than the meeting, which is fine. Personally I think that having relations with the Russians is a waste of time.

Again lol

Tough start to the year

16 to 18 Vulcan flights

Idk man…

Honestly can’t wait to see what the Chinese do. They move fast and I’m excited to see how they transform the industry.

It will be fascinating to see what they come up with. $50 million for just the upper stage is so expensive compared to Falcon 9. According to the numbers in the article, SpaceX can launch 3 Falcon 9s for the price of that one upper stage.

I wasn’t expecting this. Looks like Blue is refocusing

That’s pretty remarkable. Hope it goes well.

It’s actually pretty well understood that a starlink satellite’s life span is approx. 5 years at which point it is intentionally deorbited, and any malfunctioning satellite’s orbit would naturally decay within a few years as well.

That being said, I agree that there should be regulations about this. Feels like we’re in a bit of a wild west situation.

It’s going to take a lot to change the agency culture, but I’m glad Jared seems to be taking the right steps.

Rough day

Some nice news to hear in time for the holidays!

I think their second stage design is so cool.

This was the first time any company besides SpaceX has propulsively landed an orbital-class rocket booster, coming nearly 10 years after SpaceX recovered its first Falcon 9 booster intact in December 2015.