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It may be operating at a loss so they can control the market, but that doesn't make much sense at this point. There just isn't active competition.

Certifying the Dragons to fly 5+ times must help.

Now that I'm looking at this, Resilience, which flew Inspiration4 with a dome instead of docking adapter, hasn't flown again. Hmm.

The turnaround time to identify the problem, propose and test a fix, and return to flight is just unmatched.

You could argue that it should never have happened, either because of process or design, but I guess a quality escape like this was inevitable with how many of these they make and fly.

I almost wonder why it was still there if it wasn't really used. It would be really interesting to learn more about how they tracked this down so specifically.

This is why they call it a dogfight

I will never shed a tear for Northrop, Lockheed, Boeing, etc losing contracts.

Turret Toss champion on a technicality?

AMfAB

For the strongback, they've made changes in the past, like recently running liquid methane up it for Intuitive Machines, so that shouldn't be too big of a deal.

That would be a crazy flex if they pulled it off, compared to entire companies focusing on RPO like Astroscale with their current demo mission and True Anomaly with their failed attempted RPO mission.

That being said, I doubt that any Starlink engineering cameras would be good enough to give them better views than the 2nd stage's onboard cameras, and Starlink prop systems don't look like they have enough thrusters or control authority for that kind of thing.

They made the Coke Freestyle machine into its own store?

They made the Coke Freestyle machine into its own store?

"Intentionally building toward"

Having a Honeywell CEO forever, especially when they were growing like crazy, is gonna be impossible to unwind from their corporate culture and policies.

Blue Origin with all this money and hype becoming an old space company is so disappointing.

The Artemis program was way too late in realizing that they would need a crew lander and EVA suits...

I think the value proposition is more about national pride and security, so they can keep launching things if they have a falling out with other countries. Like when Russia decided to start a war and take Oneweb satellites hostage. Imagine a world where the US elected a crazy nationalist who wanted out of NATO...

I brought up Northrop because I'm guessing they bid a Cygnus derived deorbit vehicle.

How is this a handout? They bid for a contract and won it vs competitors.

I'm hoping we get a source selection statement soon where they spell out why companies like Northrop and Blue didn't win.

Copa Cabana

Or the mythical Dragon XL?

They want to control the descent and not risk a bunch of huge chunks crashing through people's houses. Or worse.