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Hi , and welcome back to TechCrunch Space . Happy New Year ! And … surprise ! : This will be the last edition of TechCrunch Space for the foreseeable future tense . I know , it ’s a bummer . But fear not : We ’ll still be reporting on space startups , so I hope you ’ll remain tuned .
And there will sure be alotto covering fire . This calendar month is already form up to be quite eventful , with Blue Origin preparing to launch its predominate New Glenn rocket for the first meter and SpaceX provision to demonstrate payload deployment using Starship , also for the first prison term . It ’s going to be a fully grown year .
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Story of the week
Nearly a quarter - century after its founding , Jeff Bezos’Blue Originis gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first sentence — and at last recruit the competitive launching industry that is presently dominated by SpaceX.
I am feel very , very hype for this launching . An melodic line traffic advisoryposted last calendar week advise that Blue Origin may lead the launch no sooner than January 6 , but that timing is at last TBD and nothing has been confirmed by Blue Origin . no matter , this will hopefully be the beginning of a immense year for Blue Origin ’s first - ever orbital rocket .
Scoop of the week
We ’re revisiting a scoop that editor in chief Julie Bort and I publish before in 2024 , showing that SpaceX tender some good mass to select insiders who are authorized to buy secondary shares in the company . The story , which is found on internal SpaceX text file , provides an interesting look into the ship’s company ’s top investors .
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This week in space history
This week , we ’re going back in history — way back to the 17th century , when Galileo Galilei recorded observation about Jupiter ’s four moons for the first time .
Why does this matter ? When Galileo correctly think that the object he was honour were moons orb around a planet , it yield the Italian stargazer strong grounds that Copernicus was right : that the existence did not revolve around the Earth , but rather around the Lord’s Day . Here ’s a nice slight write - upfrom NASA on Galileo ’s many discoveries of our solar organization .
