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Heiko Linke retweeted
SpaceX will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and Starship on the upcoming flight.
If both are successful, it will mark the first time that all parts of an orbital rocket return to Earth intact.
This is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary.
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
Heiko Linke retweeted
Starship Flight 15 mission profile modeling.
The same 275km 30.6° orbit, 14 orbits return to starbase.
Multiple twilight pass over populated area.
exoplanet5.github.io/Starshi…
Heiko Linke retweeted
🇺🇸 US House of Representatives, seats won so far.
Democrats: 254 seats
Republicans: 162 seats
Still not called: 19
Hatte auf klaren Sternenhimmel in Kandersteg gehofft jedoch der Hochnebel war schneller 🔭🔭 @tottoR
Heiko Linke retweeted
Huge announcements today from @NASA with REAL plans for “Moon Base” and doing some clever things with existing hardware like reusing Curiosity / Perseverance Rover hardware to build a moon rover named “Promise”! TONS of big contracts too!!! It’s happening! @NASAAdmin
Heiko Linke retweeted
BREAKING: NASA just announced a new Starship mission for its Moon Base and awarded SpaceX a spot in its $10 billion Moon cargo program.
• Starship will launch communications satellites near the Moon in 2028. The mission will help NASA develop a network linking astronauts and the Moon Base to mission control on Earth.
• Falcon 9 will launch some of NASA’s new Moon Base missions.
• SpaceX was also picked to compete for cargo deliveries to the Moon’s surface under a new 10-year NASA program worth up to $10 billion across all providers.
