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Hello , and receive back to TechCrunch Space ! This week , SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said she would n’t be surprised if the company plunge Starship 400 time over the next four class . What do you think ? How realistic are those number , on the scale of “ almost sure ” to “ no chance in underworld ” ? I conceive SpaceX has the manufacturing know - how to make it happen . But I ca n’t help but wonder if regulators and the quietus of the industriousness are quick — regulators , to actually process and keep up with that scale , and the diligence , to in reality fill all those Starships with utile mass .
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Story of the week
Pivot of the week
As the saying operate : “ Space is severe . ” That difficulty was on full video display with ABL Space Systems ’ proclamation that it was pivot from commercial launch to projectile defending team . There ’s for certain a massive appetency within the DOD for this technical school — the department’sfiscal twelvemonth 2025 budgetallocates $ 13.5 billion for projectile defense programs — but we ’ll have to wait and see to memorise how just ABL plan to use its exist IP for this new determination .
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This week in space history
This week we ’re fete the Apollo 12 crew , which touched down on the lunar surface on November 19 , 1969 . Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean spent around 31 hours on the synodic month while the third mortal in the work party , Richard Gordon , remained in lunar orbit . One of the most pregnant achievements of the foreign mission was the pinpoint landing : The ballistic capsule Intrepid touched down just 535 foot from the Surveyor 3 probe .
