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Hello , and welcome back to TechCrunch Space ! First off , I want to highlight a few stories we were n’t able to get to : First , Inversion Space raised a $ 44 million Series A to continue development of its radical - exact reach - to - Earth freight delivery service . The caller has already garnered a lot of aid from the DOD for its tech , which has clean obvious military program program , so I figure we ’d be seeing some new financial support before long .
Second : lid off to Blue Origin , which wing the New Glenn subocular vehicle twice in a one - month span . The most late escape , which took place on Friday , let in engineer , science TV emcee , and former TechCrunch contributing writer Emily Calandrelli !
And finally , I hope all my American readers have a great Thanksgiving . May it be filled with friend , family , and good sunniness .
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Story of the week
SpaceX ’s sixth flight test of the Starship rocket was likely not the most exciting of the batch , but it did come with a critical milepost : The upper stage ( also called Starship ) briefly reignite one of its six Raptor engine while traveling halfway around the humankind for the very first time . try out out this capability mean that SpaceX will soon be capable to quiz flying the upper point on a full loop around the universe and return it to the launching situation , where it can finally be chop-chop refurbish and reuse .
Exclusive of the week
I had the pleasure of confab with one of the co - founding father ofRaven Space Systems , a startup establish in the Midwest that ’s developed a raw cognitive operation to start the first scalable three-D impression of commercial , off - the - shelf thermoset composite components . These components are widely used across aerospace and defense team , including for reentry vehicle and hypersonics .
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“ We ’re essentially unlocking an entire field of 3D impression to production shell , ” Raven co - beginner and CEO Blake Herren say in a recent interview . “ We ’re taking these off - the - shelf materials that have been proven for both structure and thermal aegis program , and automating the dear net figure production by 3-D printing them for the first metre . ”
This week in space history
The first astronauts to celebrate Thanksgiving in quad did so in 1973 . Since then , there have been a few dozen Thanksgiving meals shared on the International Space Station . What do the spaceman feed ? Why , the same things you and I do , except suspend dried : turkey , mashed white potato vine , macaroni and cheeseflower , green beans , and dessert . chatter the data link above for more photos of Thanksgivings over the long time aboard the ISS .
