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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space . SpaceX is launching its Transporter-10 rideshare missionary station today . These are always really fun to get across because they post dozens of payload , include from many startups . This mission will let in satellites from Apex Space , Unseen Labs , Care Weather , True Anomaly and others . God upper !
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Story of the week
Once again this week , we ’re highlighting Intuitive Machines ’ first lunar lander commission . This mission will be remembered for many reason , but in my level this calendar week I highlighted a somewhat overlooked scene of Odysseus ’ computer architecture that deserves major congratulations : its propulsion organisation .
Scoop of the week
An internal congressional memo take in by TechCrunch casts strong dubiety on Rocket Lab ’s title that its Neutron rocket will be quick for launching in time to forgather a all-important contract deadline from the Space Force .
“ In light of public reporting and media press , Rocket Lab has intensify their political campaign to misrepresent their launch readiness in an exploit to derive militant reward over incumbents and other Modern entrants by on - embarkment into NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 at the first opportunity in 2024 , ” the memo , watch by TechCrunch , order . “ Public records and information usable to staff confirm that Neutron has no credible path to launch by 12/15/2024 . ”
What we’re reading
This week , SpaceDotBiz ’s Ian Vorbach sat down for a long and plainspoken consultation with Payam Banazadeh , an aerospace engineer who set up Capella Space in 2016 and led the troupe as CEO until last October . The two have a fantastic conversation about entrepreneurship , growing a venture - backed inauguration and the remote sense diligence .
This week in space history
On March 6 , 2009 , the Kepler space telescope lifted off from NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center . The “ planet - hunting ” telescope was launched to research for Earth - sized planets revolve stars much like our sunlight . It succeeded in this foreign mission , revealing that the universe is occupy with exoplanets .
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“ When we start conceiving this mission 35 year ago , we did n’t bed of a individual planet outside our solar system,”William Borucki , the Kepler commission ’s founding principal investigator , said . “Now that we experience planets are everywhere , Kepler has set us on a new course that ’s full of promise for next generations to search our Galax urceolata . ”
While Kepler discovered more than one thousand planets , only a dozen are less than twice the sizing of Earth and reside in the “ habitable zone ” of their ace . The diagram below from NASA establish those planets , with Earth as a equivalence , though they have been exposit by 25 times compared to the stars .
