This is the last one with a fairing, but there are still 4-6 Atlas V cores booked for Starliner missions.

AntennaPod. It’s available through F-Droid.

“I’d like to pay rent for my heated seats!” -Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

They have played us for absolute fools

I miss the golden era of Netflix when they had everything. Now that all the streaming platforms balkanized… Fuck em.

It should get clearer in the next few months with the first Starship v3 launch and when Blue Moon Mk1 gets out of TVAC and launches. If those keep slipping or go poorly then the LEO demo next year is off the table and 2028 for a landing is definitely off.

Orion isn’t Dragon, Starliner, or Dream Chaser, though. There was much much heavier NASA involvement in all the minute requirements and designs compared to those other examples.

Yeaahhh but there’s at least some shared accountability. Lockheed messed up and NASA didn’t catch it.

How’d they like it? My family was a little confused because the NASA stream wasn’t great, but it’s hard not to get excited for a giant rocket.

This is an especially salient article given that another Starlink just blew up.

The cronyism feels unavoidable right now, but it doesn’t seem like the new stations are as grifty as a lot of other programs across the government. Axiom, Vast, Voyager, and Blue have all been working on their concepts, and even some fabrication, since before this administration, and they aren’t just random new shell corps with like Don Jr as CEO. You could argue that Axiom has a ton of connections to JSC and Blue has some powerful lobbying, but that’s very different from the scams going on in other agencies.

Not without funding and competent leadership

Let’s go!

The launch times look a lot better this time around. 8:30pm eastern is so much easier to watch than something in the middle of the night.

The target audience for newsletters and dashboards and analytics is not people actually doing work, it’s people who talk about other people’s work.

Ladder climbers and empire builders are a cancer

It’s interesting that both of the astronauts who flew on the Boeing Starliner have since retired. They were already toward the ends of their careers, but that had to be the final nail in the coffin.

Orion’s heat shield would keep me up at night if I worked on the program. I know they cleared it and changed the reentry profile, but they also approved of it before Artemis 1…

Looking back, it’s pretty surprising that Dragon hasn’t had some more serious issues with crew aboard. Especially given the above recent safety issues and going back to Shuttle and Apollo.

That just isn’t what the astronauts deal with, though? They either go do research on the ISS or wait for the next Artemis mission to go do research on it near the moon.

Odds are that they’ll go bankrupt, but eventually someone will make that business model work. Hopefully one of them burns VC money on something useful and makes lunar surface research or materials a little cheaper for others.

Roman is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.

Great work by the team! Being ready to launch sooner than scheduled is really impressive for a program like this.

I love their upper stage concept. Compared to Starship, it seems like it should be a lot more rapidly reusable.

Agreed on brightness and deorbiting. There are some efforts underway for those.

FCC licensing includes how operators are reducing constellation brightness:

https://spacenews.com/fcc-directing-more-satellite-constellations-to-mitigate-effects-on-astronomy/

And their 5 year rule for deorbiting:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-5-year-rule-deorbiting-satellites-0