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NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket sits at Launch Pad Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 15, 2022. NASA is aiming for June 18 for the beginning of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) at the Kennedy Space Center, with tanking operations on June 20. (Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Story of the week
With its incredible mass and elevator , SpaceX ’s spaceship is already transforming missionary work planning . typesetter’s case in power point : Voyager & Airbus will found their private space place Starlab on Starship — in a individual mission .
The two companiesannounced the launching deal last calendar week , though neither political party disclosed the fiscal term . In some way , it is n’t much of a surprisal : Starship is the only heavy - lift rocket under developing that will be capable of accommodating the post ’s eight - meter - diameter in one go . But it ’s nevertheless a welcome sign of healthy development , both for Starlab and Starship .
Scoop of the week
Iuncovered more details about a tightlipped lunation startupheaded by antique - Blue Origin leaders . Interlune , a startup that ’s been around for at least three geezerhood but has made almost zero public announcements about its technical school , elicit $ 15.5 million in new backing and aim to fill up another $ 2 million . It ’s headed by Rob Meyerson , an aerospace executive and investor who was president of Blue Origin for 15 years .
What picayune is known of Interlune ’s technical school mostly comes from an abstract of a small SBIR the startup was present last yr from the National Science Foundation . Under that award , the company said it will take to “ develop a nucleus enabling technology for lunar in situ resource employment : the ability to sort ‘ moon dirt ’ ( lunar regolith ) by particle size . ”
“ By enabling raw lunar regolith to be sorted into multiple current by atom size , the technology will render appropriate feedstocks for lunar atomic number 8 extraction systems , lunar 3 - dimensional printing machine , and other applications,”the abstraction says .
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Launch highlights
SpaceX team up with Northrop Grumman to deliver more than 8,000 pounds of cargo , refreshing food and scientific experiments to astronauts on the International Space Station .
The NG-20 resupply delegation consider off from the Space Force ’s Cape Canaveral in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 30 and arrived at the ISS on February 1 .
Northrop has been plunge Cygnus to the ISS for resupply commission using its own Antares rocket since 2013 , with the exception of just two mission that used a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 . But Northropretired that version of Antares last year , and the next adaptation — an all - American launch vehicle call Antares 330 , which it is developing with Firefly Aerospace — will not be ready to fell until around mid-2025 .
Both Northrop and SpaceX have multibillion - dollar contracts with NASA to deliver cargo resupply missions to the ISS . Under its contract , SpaceX uses its Dragon capsule ; this is the first meter the society flew a Cygnus .
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What we’re reading
Last week , I had a great timediving into this storypredicting SpaceX ’s 2024 taxation authored by Payload co - founder Mo Islam and Jack Kuhr , Payload ’s enquiry director .
The TL;DR is that Payload is projecting SpaceX ’s revenue will climb from $ 8.7 billion in 2023 to $ 13.3 billion in 2024 , in the main due to higher demand for Falcon 9 launches and more Starlink customers . But there ’s short ton more treatment on SpaceX ’s business at the link above , and it ’s deserving check out .
This week in space history
On February 5 , 1971 , Alan Shepard became the fifth cosmonaut to take the air on the moon . advertising astra !
