Boeing is the prime contractor for SLS. That’s why I brought them up.

I’d include the R-7 family (Soyuz, Molniya, Voskhod, etc.), Proton, and Space Shuttle.

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.

Hopefully they get a longer streak over the next 2 years after finding and fixing whatever caused this and returning to flight.

I would rather have JEM2, but I’ll settle for HTV-XL. Actually, now I want both.

It’s Arstechnica, that has to be intentional

That really seems like it should be Boeing’s job. Prove to NASA why they should use it for high energy probes. Prove the value for heavy GEO sats. Calculate out cost savings from a higher launch rate and bid on contracts based on that.

None of those trades close, but it still shouldn’t be NASA’s job to say so.

SLS and Orion are really impressive from a political standpoint.

Congress shouldn’t design rockets.

Just relight the 2nd stage to go back and get it!

Well a 7 is a rotated L, so cross that one off

Kibo is great, and JAXA has been on the ISS train from almost the beginning. I’m genuinely looking forward to their pressurized lunar rover and commercial station contributions, whatever they end up being.

They made the Coke Freestyle machine into its own store?

They made the Coke Freestyle machine into its own store?

But it’s too easy

*Ariane 9

Go FMARS! Hopefully the polar bears leave them alone.

in Korea

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I would love to see an updated version of the JEM take the forward port on a Starlab station.

An Apophis mission would be cool, but they really need to fund that yesterday and get moving on designing and building it if they want anything meaningful.

I’m also glad that there’s a little more CLD pressure. Hopefully the ISS deorbit plans really firm up soon and CLD can pick up the pace.

Awkward

Firefly is doing a lot better now that he’s out of the picture and they had their phoenix regeneration. Correlation vs causation and all that, but they probably aren’t champing at the bit to get him back in?

Max Polyakov might have some kind of under the table deal with Tom Markusic after selling most of his stake to him for $1, though…