Stephen Clark
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Space Reporter @arstechnica, ex @SpaceflightNow | Reachable at [email protected]
Texas
Joined January 2009
Perhaps a few million dollars (or a few hundred million rubles) from ad revenue will ensure some workers get their paychecks—if the money doesn't disappear into someone's private coffers, that is. https://t.co/RcOKUXttJM
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This Soyuz mission is brought to you by the Wagner Group.
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In this week's Rocket Report: • Blue Origin's big week • Weather gets a vote in rocket launches • Starship Flight 11 set for Monday • Stoke's impressive funding haul • NASA still interested in VASIMR https://t.co/8JyKmpvrSy
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The long, winding road for Franklin Chang-Diaz’s plasma rocket engine takes another turn.
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SpaceX was scheduled to launch 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit tonight. However, the weather outlook at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station wasn't terribly promising as seen below. Liftoff is now NET Oct. 11. Read more: https://t.co/B8NdU89KCa
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Maybe there's a silver lining to all this talk about aliens and interstellar objects.
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“You don’t have to claim that they’re aliens to make these exciting.”…
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My best sighting of a Starlink satellite "train" from orbit!
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Sora 2 Prompt: "Make an ad for Vectara featuring me ala "Old Spice – The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” ad. It should feature me wearing gym wear. I should also be very muscular and fit. Backgrounds: San Francisco Bay Area, Carmel Highlands, Pyramids of Giza, and Saudi Arabia"
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Never tell me the odds? Challenge accepted, Blue. https://t.co/rZ1TevTloG
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To be financially sustainable, New Glenn must be reused often.
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Busy morning at Blue. Florida ➡️ New Glenn's on the move. West Texas ➡️ New Shepard's on the pad.
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Also, the bulk of this year's launch orders went to SpaceX's Falcon Heavy. https://t.co/FNtdBdqcMT
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A close examination of this year’s military contracts reveals some interesting things.
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Everyone but China has pretty much stopped littering low-Earth orbit with dead rockets.
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“In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard.”…
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Blue Origin is betting big on recovering and reusing the next New Glenn booster. https://t.co/hwqW8mhSie
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“We fully intend to recover the New Glenn first stage on this next launch.”…
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"Jeff and Sean? Y'all need to talk."
Here's a deep dive into how NASA squandered a huge advantage in the space race with China, and a realistic solution to still win the short- and long-term competition. https://t.co/UPsK3Z9DSl
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In a presentation at the IAC in Sydney, Blue Origin's Pat Remias says teams are preparing for a hotfire of the second New Glenn booster in a few weeks at Cape Canaveral, with launch likely a few weeks after that with NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars.
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This is a really innovative concept for space cargo delivery. Can Inversion pull it off? https://t.co/SRks41IaJ6
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“The key discriminator is, does this make a difference in the moment it’s needed?”…
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With rocket engines, boring is good. To that end, please enjoy this 1,030-second (17+ min!) BE-7 engine burn. This test represents the Apogee Raise Maneuver or ARM burn for our Blue Moon Mark 1 Lunar lander, plus margin, the longest burn required by the mission to reach the Moon.
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I spoke with the crew of Artemis II about the wild start to their upcoming mission. https://t.co/CJbEIm7ZLV
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“Then you go do like, the most energetic thing you’ve ever done in your life.”…
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Starship V2's last ride.
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SpaceX will reuse a Super Heavy booster with 24 previously flown Raptor engines.
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It'll be a while before Alpha flies again.
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“We will share more information on the path forward at a later date.”…
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ESA will pay an Italian company nearly $50 million to design a mini-Starship
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This is a “step forward in the transition of European launch systems toward full reusability.”…
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Congrats to the entire @SpaceX team for another 16 Falcon launch/month. We were one tropical system away from hitting 17 in September, but we’ll take recovery impacts over landfall any day! Special shout out to the entire west coast team for their first ever 8 launch/month.
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The media once defended free thought—now too often it polices it. Propaganda is their weapon of choice. The free world must reject manipulation and stand for truth without apology.
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