Happy birthday to the one and only John Insprucker!

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Introducing Starbase Earth
60 launch pads 400 miles apart (40 floating + 20 land pads)
Enabling high rate downrange landings
300+ tons of payload per launch

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Space-Pioneer reveal their Tianhuo-21 methalox engine (2,450 kN, 332 s sea-level), presumably for some Starship analogue.

Gwynne Shotwell roasts Boeing

Gwynne Shotwell: "We're not retiring [Falcon 9] today, for sure, and there is another provider, right? Boeing has been paid, I think probably more than we have been paid, to develop their human capsule. So we're just going to let them have some business. They should fly their capsule. Government paid a lot of money for that. They should be able to use it."

@spaceflightmemes

#SpaceX #Boeing #Falcon9 #Dragon #Starliner

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No webcast. No advanced notice on RocketLab's social media. Just a "Oh, by the way, we launched an Electron for BlackSky a confidential customer bit over an hour ago."

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This is what came to mind during the @isaraerospace launch yesterday

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Context: Isar Aerospace Calls Off 4 September Spectrum Launch Attempt

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Since SLS stole Vulcan’s upperstage, I propose Vulcan steals SLS’s upperstage. BEHOLD, Vulcan 1B.

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