Did NASA ever actually say that about Starship?

Shuttle had abort modes that mostly involve landing “normally”. After jettisoning the SRBs, depending on how far it got and the target inclination, it could return to launch site, land in Europe or Africa, do one orbit then land back in the US, or abort to a lower than intended orbit, which actually happened once after an engine failure.

Starship can also do a pad abort, where the whole ship / upper stage separates from the 1st stage.

Can tiny SpaceX rock Boeing?

They could literally buy part of Boeing’s space division if they saw any value in it. How the turntables.

Idk, Millennium, a Boeing subsidiary that makes satellites, just got a pretty good contract.

https://spacenews.com/millennium-space-secures-386-million-contract-for-missile-defense-satellites/

And now released.

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/crew-8-astronaut-released-from-hospital-back-in-houston/

The suborbital one? At least this one sort of goes to orbit.

It might have been hit by something. Or it could have had a failure and blown itself up. The history of these buses and some previous observations on this satellite, plus Boeing being involved, makes me inclined to think it blew itself up.

It’ll be a sad day when they inevitably start scrapping it

A giant capsule with an aerospike on the bottom. No flips and flaps needed.

It looks like some small pieces blew off the booster and there was a little fire at the end, but they recovered it and can work on solving that for the next flight. What a catch.

I wouldn’t have even cared about NS if it was the only thing happening today

Stoke is comfortable knowing they have the safer concept for reentry

Oh wait that’s always been the case, but it is getting worse due to climate change. Florida weather has been a big downside of the Cape all the way back. Ctrl+F “hurricane”:

https://sma.nasa.gov/SignificantIncidents/assets/space-shuttle-missions-summary.pdf

Even if the FAA is twiddling their thumbs, hopefully paying customers (who wouldn’t have made orbit if an SRB blew out) are demanding answers.

“Oh no what do about all this waste heat?”

“Generate more waste heat”

I wish the jump seats could have been plan A for their sake

I just want canyons covered with a fish tank growing algae and shielding cool Adobe cities

Hey, it’s more like a big Vulcan with little legs.

Yeah, Axiom is working on a private space station that would bud off the ISS when it deorbits. Although they have some money problems right now.

For asteroid mining, look up AstroForge. They’re working on mining platinum group metals from near Earth m-type asteroids. They launched a forge demo sat and soon will launch an asteroid RPO demo sat.

We’re in a new space race.

There are too many rocket companies to list. This commercialization drives down launch costs and increases capacity, which benefits private companies and public research institutions.

There was just a record number of people in orbit (19) that’ll get broken again in the coming years. The ISS will get new modules. Tiangong has been expanding. The Lunar Gateway station is under construction. Several private space stations are under construction. And multiple companies and countries are working on new crewed vehicles.

Starlink has customers in 99 countries as of March. It’s a global service.