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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 months ago

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#Amazon is under time pressure ⏱️. The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by 📆 July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 ⏳. More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

#Kuiper #ULA #Ariane6 #NewGlenn #Falcon9

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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📆 2025 Lunar Gateway #NASA #ESA #CSA #JAXA
📆 2025 Haven-1 #VastSpace
📆 2026 Axiom Station #AxiomSpace
📆 2026 StarMax #Gravitics
📆 2026 LIFE Pathfinder #SierraSpace
📆 2027 Russian Orbital Service Station #Roscosmos
📆 2028 Starlab #NanoRacks #VoyagerSpace #Airbus #MDASpace #Mitsubishi
📆 second half 2020s Orbital Reef #BlueOrigin #SierraSpace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_stations#Planned_and_proposed

#SpaceStation #launch

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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Prof Logsdon* expects big changes under #Trump, Mr #Musk and Mr #Isaacman: scrapping programmes, closing NASA centres and more contracting out to #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin and other private sector firms. "There is a delicate balance between the interests of #NASA, #Congress and the #WhiteHouse."

Mr Isaacman has called the #SLS "outrageously expensive" and said that the major aerospace contractors are "incentivised to be economically #inefficient". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn93797z2dpo

* https://www.planetary.org/profiles/jon-logsdon

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 3 months ago

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#SpaceX has developed two heavy lift rockets in the last decade, and #BlueOrigin just launched #NewGlenn. Each of these rockets is at least partially reusable ♻️ and flies at less than one-tenth 💵 the cost of the #SLS rocket 💰 https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts

#Boeing #NASA

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

"Getting to orbit is hard. And we did it on our first go." True. They've earned the celebration we're seeing now. New Glenn is about 90% the size of a Saturn V, to point out how big this is. I noticed the shape of the shock diamonds in the rocket thrust looked like consistent stable combustion. Well done! #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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"Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - Excellent first flight of the new heavy-lift rocket achieved it's primary goal of reaching orbit. The booster landing attempt should be viewed as good that they tried and got data from the attempt. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/blue-origin-reaches-orbit-on-first-flight-of-its-titanic-new-glenn-rocket/ #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #space #business #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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2nd stage climbing toward orbit. 1st stage re-entering for attempted landing. #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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Booster data feed frozen on descent for attempted landing. #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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2nd stage continues climbing toward orbit, which is the primary goal of this mission. #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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Webcast says 1st stage booster was lost during landing burn near the landing ship. They promise more details. But expect the mood to be of celebration with success of 2nd stage reaching orbit. #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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"GS2 is now orbital". Second stage engine cutoff. Primary objective successful! #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn🚀 #NG1 #NewSpace #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last year

Launch costs have fallen 95% 📉 (with another massive reduction expected in the coming years) thanks to reuse, improved engineering, and increased volumes.
“In economics, we assume that resources are limited; land is limited; natural resources are limited. With #space 🌌, it allows us to change that.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/were-in-a-new-era-the-21st-century-space-race-takes-off

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 11 months ago

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“ #Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from #Arianespace, #BlueOrigin and #ULA”. At current market prices, it is assumed that the launch Capex from these 83 launches could be as high as $6 billion to $10 billion, deploying only half 🌗 as many satellites as #Starlink already did by 📆 mid-2024. If #Kuiper had access to the same launch deal as Starlink, its launch Capex could be less than half 📉 of what it is estimated here. https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-the-categorical-imperative-to-achieve-low-launch-cost/

#Ariane6 #Vulcan #NewGlenn #LauchCost