Sorry. I probably should have been clear why I thought this was significant too.

The F9 booster for Starlink 7 has already flown 4 times. 2 paid and 2 Starlink missions. They could easily choose to make it expendable as it has already been more than paid for. Instead they are accepting a significant delay for a date sensitive series of missions. To meet their agreement with the FCC they need to have ~6000 satellites flying in 4 years. That's 100+ launches in 48 months, or 2 launches per month, not including their launch schedule for other customers. Currently they are planning 3 Starlink launches and a GPS 3 launch for the Air Force in June.

The next few years are going to be INSANE if they can actually meet that launch cadence. SpaceX changed the landscape for launches with it's reusable platform, and we haven't even seen the half of it yet.

Seriously. Over the next 4 years a private company is launching orbital rockets twice a month to blanket the earth with a constellation of 12,000 satellites. That is truly the stuff of science fiction. While I am super excited for DM2 and taking the day off to watch/celebrate, I think that achievement pales in comparison to launching 6000 satellites in 4 years.

Is space force essential us space command with a new name?

Starfleet Command actually


https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/u...01/space-1.gif

There are also plenty of contractor jobs with the Space Force.

I ****ing hate politics being injected into science.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NASA&#39;s head of human spaceflight, Doug Loverro, has abruptly resigned — just one week before a historic test flight to send astronauts up in a new space capsule developed by SpaceX.<a href="https://t.co/axtNyKIBmR">https://t.co/axtNyKIBmR</a></p>&mdash; NPR (@NPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1262873934300622854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So what did he do?

He was caught ****ing aliens.

Again.

Friend of Epstein's

I'm sure there's a joke about mass and acceleration in here somewhere.

I guess we'll see how it plays out, but I suspect we may have to get used to weather-related scrubs on manned launches. This is a lot of stuff that has to be right...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The finalized <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CrewDragon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CrewDragon</a> launch weather commit criteria for next week. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Demo2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Demo2</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falonc9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Falonc9</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NASA</a> <a href="https://t.co/oyD0Bqacq4">pic.twitter.com/oyD0Bqacq4</a></p>&mdash; Chris G - NSF (@ChrisG_NSF) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1263088988287574016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is a nice profile of the two astronauts set to fly next week.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meet the first NASA astronauts SpaceX will launch to orbit <a href="https://t.co/bOjdKC8d6r">https://t.co/bOjdKC8d6r</a> <a href="https://t.co/nyU9ZATbLP">pic.twitter.com/nyU9ZATbLP</a></p>&mdash; The Verge (@verge) <a href="https://twitter.com/verge/status/1263077072366428163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

:)

T-7 days

It wasn't politics...


https://arstechnica.com/science/2020...hy-it-matters/

<samp class="EmbedCode-container"><code class="EmbedCode-code"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheWormIsBack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheWormIsBack</a> and it’s on the <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpaceX</a> spacesuits that <a href="https://twitter.com/Astro_Doug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Astro_Doug</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/AstroBehnken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AstroBehnken</a> will be wearing next week for our Demo-2 mission! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaunchAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LaunchAmerica</a> Check it out: <a href="https://t.co/e8iSshObWi">pic.twitter.com/e8iSshObWi</a></p>&mdash; Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1263213438806917121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </code></samp>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 in the hangar at Launch Complex 39A <a href="https://t.co/l758CdYXNQ">pic.twitter.com/l758CdYXNQ</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1263296976499748864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>