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Spaceleaks daily: Aug 11, 2021
Worldwide:
- Northrop Grumman launches a Cygnus cargo ship to the space station
- Thailand moving to enact Space Activities Act
Business:
- Elon Musk offers for SpaceX to make NASA spacesuits, after watchdog says program to cost $1 billion
- Shelling out Rs 1.8 crore for trip, but it’s truly worth it: Man who could be India’s first space tourist
- Accion Systems to Fly TILE Thrusters on Xplore XLEO In-Space Tests
- Darcton Damião Joins Vaya Space as Vice President of Latin American Operations
- DoD Launching Experiment For Space-Based Hypersonic Missile Detection
- Dawn Aerospace To Empower The Indonesian Space Agency’s Tsunami Warning Satellite Constellation
- Lockheed Martin takes aim at satellite servicing market
- Unseenlabs lines up Vega flight for fourth maritime surveillance satellite
- SpaceLink Adds Blue Marble to OISL Terminal Partners List
- Astrolight performs the first operational test of the mobile optical ground station for LEO satellites
- Rocket Lab to launch three sets of BlackSky satellites
- XELS partners with Albo Climate for satellite imaging tech that can accurately validate carbon sequestration from space
- Stellar Exploration propels EchoStar nanosatellite to valuable slot
- Xplore Partners with Accion Systems to Test Next Generation TILE Thrusters Aboard LEO Xcraft (XLEO)
- T4i and Spacety Luxembourg Sign an MoU to Seal Their Intended Collaborations on Electric Propulsion
- Intuitive Machines selects SpaceX for launch of third lunar lander mission
- IHI Aerospace to offer Epsilon rocket commercially
- US Space Force Adds ABL, Astra, and Relativity Space to OSP-4 Contract
- Chinese hypersonic spaceplane company raises $46 million
- Skykraft to begin launch of space-based air traffic management constellation
Technology:
Here you can find some photos of Starship and a nice timeline:
November 2018 — BFR, first announced in September 2017, gets renamed Starship
December 2018 — Musk confirms the new ship has switched to stainless steel
January 2019 — Shortened “Starhopper” prototype unveiled, and Musk explains the switch to steel
February 2019 — Raptor engine beats a long-standing rocket record
April 2019 — Starhopper completes a tethered “hop”
July 2019 — Starhopper launches 20 meters (67 feet)
August 2019 — Starhopper launches 150 meters (500 feet)
September 2019 — Starship Mk.1 full-size prototype unveiled
May 2020 — Starship SN4 full-size prototype completes a static test fire
August 2020 — SN5 launches 150 meters (500 feet)
October 2020 — SN8 completes the first triple-Raptor static fire
December 2020 — SN8 launches 12.5 kilometers (41,000 feet) and crashes into the ground
February 2021 — SN9 launches 10 kilometers (33,000 feet) and crashes into the ground
March 2021 — SN10 launches 10 kilometers (33,000 feet), lands, and explodes eight minutes later. That same month, SN11 launches 10 kilometers (33,000 feet) and hits the ground in several pieces.
May 2021 — SN15 launches 10 kilometers (33,000 feet) and lands without a hitch, except for a small fire at the base
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