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China's rocket that was supposed to be a Falcon 9 Killer Just Crashed Tianlong-3 (TL-3), the Chinese rocket built specifically to challenge SpaceX's Falcon 9, failed on its maiden flight yesterday (April 3) The Rocket: • 72-meter tall, reusable heavy-lift launcher • Designed for 17-22 tonnes to LEO........nearly matching...

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BREAKING: For 10 years the world believed there was one way to reuse a rocket: land it upright on its engines, the way SpaceX does. Today China refused to copy it, and pulled off something SpaceX never managed on a first flight. It caught the rocket instead. The Long March 10B lifted off from Hainan, China this morning, and about 6 minutes later its first stage came back down toward a 25,000-ton ship at sea. It did not land. Hooks on the falling booster snagged a net of tensioned steel wires strung across the deck, the wires riding robotic rails that slid into place to meet it. No landing legs. No touchdown. A rocket plucked out of its own descent by a moving net, on the maiden flight of a brand-new vehicle. No one handed China this. SpaceX guards its rocket tech as “trade secrets”, not “patents”, precisely so it cannot be read and copied. China watched a decade of public flights and then built an entirely different machine to reach the same prize, catching instead of landing, which sheds the heavy legs and spares the fuel a soft touchdown burns to hover. And this was never about cheaper satellites, though it delivers those too, feeding the thousands of birds in China's Starlink rival. Its deeper purpose is the Moon. That booster shares its core with the rocket meant to land Chinese astronauts on the lunar surface by 2030. In the same season, America's own Moon rocket, Starship, has flown 12 times and still has not shown the single maneuver its lunar plan depends on. One flight does not dethrone SpaceX. It has landed hundreds. What ended today is not SpaceX's lead. It is Uncle Sam’s belief that it owns the only road to the Moon. The piece works out which way of coming home actually wins.

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🚨 🚨 BEZOS HAS 3 OPTIONS LEFT AFTER NEW GLENN'S LAUNCHPAD EXPLOSION. ALL 3 ARE CATASTROPHIC. This is the moment nobody wants to talk about. After years of development, a $1B+ heavy-lift rocket program, and a final ground test before Amazon's Kuiper satellite mission → Blue Origin is now boxed into THREE choices. And every single one is a nightmare: ⚠️ OPTION 1: REBUILD LC-36 FROM SCRATCH – The only launchpad Blue Origin owns is now a debris field – One 600-foot lightning tower toppled. Erector-gantry: gone. Ground equipment: destroyed. – Pad rebuilds after a full vehicle explosion take 12–24 months minimum – Amazon's Kuiper constellation — already years behind SpaceX Starlink — falls further behind – Every month of delay costs Amazon market share it cannot get back ⚠️ OPTION 2: BORROW OR BUY LAUNCH CAPACITY FROM A COMPETITOR – The only competitor with available heavy-lift pads is SpaceX – Asking your direct rival for a launchpad is not a business negotiation — it's a surrender – SpaceX has every incentive to slow-walk, overcharge, or simply say no – Amazon would be funding the company that is actively destroying Kuiper's market window – Jeff Bezos built Blue Origin specifically to avoid this dependency ⚠️ OPTION 3: ABSORB THE DELAY AND KEEP INVESTING – New Glenn's first stage was enveloped in fire during a routine hotfire test — the final check before orbital flight – The vehicle collapsed. The upper stage tilted and fell. Fires burned at multiple stories – This wasn't a launch failure. This was a ground test. The hardest problems haven't even been attempted yet. – Blue Origin has no second pad, no backup vehicle, and no timeline for the next attempt – And Starlink already has 7,000+ satellites in orbit Let that sink in. There is no Option 4. There is no clean exit. There is no "we rebuild and catch up by Q4." The media is showing you "rocket science is hard" and "no injuries reported." They're NOT showing you that Blue Origin just destroyed its only launchpad — the single piece of infrastructure that connects years of development to an actual orbital mission — three hours before midnight on May 28, 2026. This is the most consequential single test failure any American space company has faced since SpaceX's Pad 40 explosion in 2016. Follow now → this story is moving fast. RT so others see what's really at stake. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

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🇹🇼 SPACEX JUST LAUNCHED TAIWAN’S FIRST HOME-BUILT SATELLITE SpaceX fired up its Falcon 9 rocket from California and gave Taiwan’s brand-new Formosat-8 satellite a ride to space. This isn’t just some shiny tech toy. It’s the first fully built-in-Taiwan satellite meant for serious business: watching Earth, tracking disasters, and showing the world that Taiwan’s space game is no joke. The satellite, named “Chi Po-lin” after a famous Taiwanese aerial photographer, is the first in a planned constellation of eight. It’ll orbit at 561 kilometers above the Earth and snap high-res images for everything from urban planning to spotting deforestation. And no, it’s not just science class stuff. This thing helps with disaster response, climate monitoring, and yes, national security. About 84% to 86% of the satellite was built using Taiwanese-made tech, a huge leap for a country trying to grow its space independence. Taiwan’s space agency (TASA) plans to launch a new Formosat satellite every year until 2031. When it’s done, Taiwan will have its own sky-eye network scanning Earth like a sci-fi movie come to life. While some countries still rent satellite time or import the tech, Taiwan is doing it DIY-style. This is not only about building cool hardware, it’s about making sure they’re not depending on anyone else when it comes to critical data from space. And props to SpaceX for being the go-to launch partner for countries that actually build their own satellites. Elon’s rocket crew keeps proving that if it fits in the payload bay, they’ll get it to orbit fast, smooth, and with a cloud of fire. Sources: Al Arabiya English, RTI Taiwan, TVBS, Taiwan News

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In 2002, Elon Musk tried to buy a rocket. The Russians quoted him $8 million per unit. American aerospace companies wanted over $65 million. He walked away from both. On the flight home, he opened a spreadsheet and broke down the raw materials. Aerospace-grade aluminum. Titanium. Copper. Carbon fiber. He priced each on the commodity market. The total came to roughly 2% of what the industry was charging. That gap is what first principles thinking actually looks like. Not "how do we negotiate a better deal." Not "who else sells rockets." Just: what is this thing actually made of, and why does it cost what it costs? The answer was overhead. Legacy processes. Layers of contractors and subcontractors. Margins stacked on margins. Nobody had questioned the price because nobody had questioned the structure. Musk decided to build it himself. The first Falcon 1 exploded 33 seconds after launch. The second made it further but failed to reach orbit. The third exploded too. Three rockets. Three failures. SpaceX was almost out of money. Musk put his last $35 million into the company. If the fourth launch failed, that was it. September 28, 2008. Falcon 1 Flight 4 reached orbit. First privately developed liquid fuel rocket to ever do it. Seven years later, they landed a booster back on Earth for the first time. Now they do it routinely. The cost per launch dropped from $65 million to under $3 million for a reused Falcon 9 booster. Everyone else was reasoning by analogy: rockets are expensive because rockets have always been expensive. Musk reasoned from atoms: rockets are expensive because nobody rebuilt the system from the ground up.

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My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder & CEO of Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab is scaling launch cadence faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9. 0:44 The biggest bottleneck to increasing launch cadence and mass to orbit 1:25 Growth of new space startups 3:05 Why governments have been ineffective at scaling launch 3:53 Tall Poppy Syndrome 4:38 Starting Rocket Lab without having $100 million 7:24 Scaling Electron vs focusing on Neutron 9:17 Rocket Lab hustle 11:10 Creating a culture of “F*ck it, let’s do it” 11:40 Worst supplier experiences 13:54 Having an engine explode before an important meeting 18:52 Rocket Lab’s first mission to the moon 20:55 Chewing glass and forcing the outcome to be good 22:57 Similarities in how Elon and Peter operate 25:05 Elon time and how to structure timelines 27:13 Designing a culture where everyone runs towards the fire 28:44 Making the Ferrari of rockets — the importance of creating beautiful things 31:20 “You don’t need to equate a price tag to beauty” 32:12 Why Peter hates launch day 34:48 “After a launch failure this place is a morgue” 35:22 Moving forward after a failure 36:40 Transitioning from an R&D organization to scaling rocket production 38:07 Production hell with rockets 39:09 Taking learnings from Electron to Neutron 41:03 Having dinner with Elon 42:00 Keeping the hiring bar extraordinarily high 44:05 “My job is to fix sh*t” 44:56 Rocket Lab’s first NASA launch 45:55 “The great thing about America is anything is possible” 47:40 Coming to Silicon Valley — meeting with Vinod Khosla 51:22 Why he decided to take $RKLB public 54:12 Creating a company that will outlive you 55:41 Turning Rocket Lab into a profitable business 57:23 The best space companies will all build their own rockets 1:00:35 Scaling Neutron 1:01:32 Why they’re using carbon fiber instead of steel 1:02:56 “Going public was a great capital unlock” 1:04:10 The importance of relentless optimism

Ti Morse

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Video generated using 15 second clips with the Grok Imagine 1.0 API, powered by xAI. --- Errata: The Feb 2nd anomaly was a Falcon 9 upper-stage engine failure the second-stage engine failed to ignite for its deorbit burn, not a Starlink satellite issue. The Vandenberg Starlink missions launch to polar orbit ~97-degree inclination, not sun-synchronous orbit. The two are similar at Starlink altitudes but SpaceX and the FAA classify these as polar. Crew-12 is launching from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, not Kennedy Space Center. --- Transcript: FAA Clears SpaceX Falcon 9 The FAA cleared the Falcon nine for return to flight after probing a February second Starlink anomaly. This paved the way for a successful launch of twenty-five Starlink satellites into sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on February seventh. Vandenberg Starlink Launch Success The booster nailed a landing on the droneship OCISLY. Meanwhile, SpaceX static-fired nine Merlin one D engines on a Falcon nine at Cape Canaveral on February eighth. That's prepping for the Crew twelve mission to the International Space Station. NASA OKs Crew-12 Launch NASA just gave the green light for launch no earlier than February eleventh from Kennedy Space Center. Four astronauts will ride the Dragon spacecraft to the ISS. --- Grok Imagine 1.0 Image Prompt Motoko Kusanagi-inspired cybernetic operative, East Asian, porcelain skin glowing under artificial light. Iconic jet-black bob: glossy straight hair, buzzed tight at the nape, asymmetrical sidelocks falling to mid-chest on one side, heavy blunt bangs with feathered underlayer. Lithe athletic build, toned arms, narrow waist, curvaceous hips, long powerful legs. Three-quarter profile, head tilted upward in contemplative vigilance, standing amid rain-lashed nocturnal skyscrapers. Wearing a form-fitting navy-blue tactical coat: high mechanical collar, unzipped low, armored pauldrons with circuit engravings, yellow insignia patch on chest, cybernetic braces on forearms and thighs with exposed wiring. One hand on hip, rain tracing rivulets down weathered seams, slick pavement underfoot. Pervasive misty haze, light rain, high-contrast chiaroscuro shadows, sodium-vapor orange wash bathing the scene, blurred high-rises and fog-shrouded alleys in background. Photorealistic cinematic still, high-budget sci-fi thriller.
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Video generated using 15 second clips with the Grok Imagine 1.0 API, powered by xAI. --- Errata: The Feb 2nd anomaly was a Falcon 9 upper-stage engine failure the second-stage engine failed to ignite for its deorbit burn, not a Starlink satellite issue. The Vandenberg Starlink missions launch to polar orbit ~97-degree inclination, not sun-synchronous orbit. The two are similar at Starlink altitudes but SpaceX and the FAA classify these as polar. Crew-12 is launching from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, not Kennedy Space Center. --- Transcript: FAA Clears SpaceX Falcon 9 The FAA cleared the Falcon nine for return to flight after probing a February second Starlink anomaly. This paved the way for a successful launch of twenty-five Starlink satellites into sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on February seventh. Vandenberg Starlink Launch Success The booster nailed a landing on the droneship OCISLY. Meanwhile, SpaceX static-fired nine Merlin one D engines on a Falcon nine at Cape Canaveral on February eighth. That's prepping for the Crew twelve mission to the International Space Station. NASA OKs Crew-12 Launch NASA just gave the green light for launch no earlier than February eleventh from Kennedy Space Center. Four astronauts will ride the Dragon spacecraft to the ISS. --- Grok Imagine 1.0 Image Prompt Motoko Kusanagi-inspired cybernetic operative, East Asian, porcelain skin glowing under artificial light. Iconic jet-black bob: glossy straight hair, buzzed tight at the nape, asymmetrical sidelocks falling to mid-chest on one side, heavy blunt bangs with feathered underlayer. Lithe athletic build, toned arms, narrow waist, curvaceous hips, long powerful legs. Three-quarter profile, head tilted upward in contemplative vigilance, standing amid rain-lashed nocturnal skyscrapers. Wearing a form-fitting navy-blue tactical coat: high mechanical collar, unzipped low, armored pauldrons with circuit engravings, yellow insignia patch on chest, cybernetic braces on forearms and thighs with exposed wiring. One hand on hip, rain tracing rivulets down weathered seams, slick pavement underfoot. Pervasive misty haze, light rain, high-contrast chiaroscuro shadows, sodium-vapor orange wash bathing the scene, blurred high-rises and fog-shrouded alleys in background. Photorealistic cinematic still, high-budget sci-fi thriller.

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RUSSIA, now the WORLD LEADER in space launch technology, leaving NASA and SPACE X in its wake! 💪🇷🇺 ❗️Russia successfully launches another Soyuz-2.1b space rocket carrying heliogeophysical satellites "Ionosphere-M" & 18 accompanying satellites from Vostochny Cosmodrone Roscosmos reported. 💪🇷🇺 On July 25, 2025, Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, carrying 2 Ionosfera-M satellites and 18 secondary payloads, including 17 Russian & 1 Iranian satellite. This mission, aimed at completing the Ionosfera-M constellation to study Earth’s ionosphere and space weather, underscores Russia’s renewed vigor in space exploration. The launch, the third Soyuz-2.1b flight of 2025 and the first from Vostochny this year, highlights Russia’s strategic push to bolster its space capabilities, positioning it as the Primary player in the global space race, arguably outpacing NASA and SpaceX in recent activity and ambition. The Ionosfera-M satellites, equipped with instruments like the GPS total electron content receiver (PES), Laertes radio wave sounder, and MAYAK dual-frequency beacon, are designed to monitor the ionosphere’s electron density and space weather effects. This scientific focus, combined with the successful deployment of 18 secondary payloads, including a 16U CubeSat and Iran’s Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite, demonstrates Russia’s ability to execute complex, multi-payload missions. The Vostochny Cosmodrome, a relatively new facility, supports Russia’s goal of reducing reliance on Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, further signaling its intent to assert independence and efficiency in space operations. In contrast, NASA and SpaceX, while historically dominant, have faced challenges that suggest Russia’s current momentum may surpass them. NASA’s Artemis program has encountered delays and budget overruns, with the Artemis II mission now pushed to 2026. SpaceX, despite its reusable Falcon 9 and Starlink successes, has focused heavily on commercial satellite deployments, with 27 Starlink launches in 2025 alone. However, these efforts lack the scientific depth of Russia’s Ionosfera-M mission, which prioritizes geophysical research critical for global communication and navigation systems. Russia’s ability to integrate international payloads, like Iran’s, also showcases its diplomatic and technical flexibility, an area where NASA’s international collaborations have been constrained by geopolitical tensions. China’s space program, meanwhile, is rapidly ascending, with milestones like the Tiangong space station and lunar exploration missions. Russia and China have deepened their space cooperation, notably through joint projects like the Russian-Chinese satellite launched in November 2024. This partnership, rooted in technology sharing, positions them to challenge Western dominance. China’s advancements in reusable rocket technology & Russia’s expertise in reliable Soyuz launches create a synergy that could see them lead the space race. For instance, Russia’s planned space station, set to launch modules in 2027, aligns with China’s ambitions for lunar bases, suggesting a strategic alignment that will outpace NASA’s slower-paced lunar gateway project. Russia’s recent successes, including a record-breaking 55-satellite launch in November 2024, reflect a revitalized space sector despite Western sanctions. By leveraging domestic infrastructure like Vostochny and fostering ties with China, Russia is not only more active but arguably more successful in achieving its space objectives than NASA or SpaceX, whose efforts are spread across commercial and exploratory domains. As Russia and China share technologies, their combined expertise in launch systems, satellite constellations & deep-space exploration is redefining their leadership in the space race, leaving NASA & SpaceX to catch up.
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RUSSIA, now the WORLD LEADER in space launch technology, leaving NASA and SPACE X in its wake! 💪🇷🇺 ❗️Russia successfully launches another Soyuz-2.1b space rocket carrying heliogeophysical satellites "Ionosphere-M" & 18 accompanying satellites from Vostochny Cosmodrone Roscosmos reported. 💪🇷🇺 On July 25, 2025, Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, carrying 2 Ionosfera-M satellites and 18 secondary payloads, including 17 Russian & 1 Iranian satellite. This mission, aimed at completing the Ionosfera-M constellation to study Earth’s ionosphere and space weather, underscores Russia’s renewed vigor in space exploration. The launch, the third Soyuz-2.1b flight of 2025 and the first from Vostochny this year, highlights Russia’s strategic push to bolster its space capabilities, positioning it as the Primary player in the global space race, arguably outpacing NASA and SpaceX in recent activity and ambition. The Ionosfera-M satellites, equipped with instruments like the GPS total electron content receiver (PES), Laertes radio wave sounder, and MAYAK dual-frequency beacon, are designed to monitor the ionosphere’s electron density and space weather effects. This scientific focus, combined with the successful deployment of 18 secondary payloads, including a 16U CubeSat and Iran’s Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite, demonstrates Russia’s ability to execute complex, multi-payload missions. The Vostochny Cosmodrome, a relatively new facility, supports Russia’s goal of reducing reliance on Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, further signaling its intent to assert independence and efficiency in space operations. In contrast, NASA and SpaceX, while historically dominant, have faced challenges that suggest Russia’s current momentum may surpass them. NASA’s Artemis program has encountered delays and budget overruns, with the Artemis II mission now pushed to 2026. SpaceX, despite its reusable Falcon 9 and Starlink successes, has focused heavily on commercial satellite deployments, with 27 Starlink launches in 2025 alone. However, these efforts lack the scientific depth of Russia’s Ionosfera-M mission, which prioritizes geophysical research critical for global communication and navigation systems. Russia’s ability to integrate international payloads, like Iran’s, also showcases its diplomatic and technical flexibility, an area where NASA’s international collaborations have been constrained by geopolitical tensions. China’s space program, meanwhile, is rapidly ascending, with milestones like the Tiangong space station and lunar exploration missions. Russia and China have deepened their space cooperation, notably through joint projects like the Russian-Chinese satellite launched in November 2024. This partnership, rooted in technology sharing, positions them to challenge Western dominance. China’s advancements in reusable rocket technology & Russia’s expertise in reliable Soyuz launches create a synergy that could see them lead the space race. For instance, Russia’s planned space station, set to launch modules in 2027, aligns with China’s ambitions for lunar bases, suggesting a strategic alignment that will outpace NASA’s slower-paced lunar gateway project. Russia’s recent successes, including a record-breaking 55-satellite launch in November 2024, reflect a revitalized space sector despite Western sanctions. By leveraging domestic infrastructure like Vostochny and fostering ties with China, Russia is not only more active but arguably more successful in achieving its space objectives than NASA or SpaceX, whose efforts are spread across commercial and exploratory domains. As Russia and China share technologies, their combined expertise in launch systems, satellite constellations & deep-space exploration is redefining their leadership in the space race, leaving NASA & SpaceX to catch up.

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Elon Musk in 2008: "NASA was going to pay Russia $70M per astronaut. SpaceX could do it for $15M" Musk is presenting SpaceX to a small audience. He shows a video of the Falcon 9 first stage firing: "This is almost a million pounds of thrust in vacuum, about four times the maximum thrust of a 747. It's pretty much Armageddon down there. You don't want to be standing at the base of that test stand." He explains the NASA contract: "The contract SpaceX has right now is to demonstrate cargo transfer to the space station and return of experiments to Earth. What we're hoping NASA will exercise is an option on that contract to also carry astronauts. I think they will exercise that option fairly soon." On the coming gap in American spaceflight: "The Space Shuttle is retiring in 2010. So unless our spacecraft is active, the US will not have the ability to send people to orbit. For about five or six years, unless SpaceX is successful, there will be no American manned space capability. There'll just be the Russians." He describes the situation bluntly: "The Russians are charging us over $70 million per seat after the shuttle retires. They got us over a barrel and they're doing us hard. We'll spend half a billion dollars per year on the Russians just buying tickets for six or seven astronauts to go to the space station." Musk shares SpaceX's cost: "Our cost per person, even assuming no reusability, assuming every bit of it is expended and no refurbishment, is about $15 million per person. And it's us. The jobs are here. So I think it's kind of a no-brainer. But no-brainers in Washington DC don't always happen." On Congress: "We've been given money for the cargo portion but not for the manned portion. The amount we're asking for to get this done is $300 million. For every year that we're dependent on the Russians, we have to send them half a billion dollars. It seems kind of ludicrous. But anyway, that's DC." Someone asks about the space elevator: "The idea is you have this really long cable, like 40 to 60,000 miles long, with the ends way out in space and the base on Earth. There are a lot of issues with the space elevator. It relies on super strong materials, carbon nanotubes. Until we build, say, a carbon nanotube footbridge, then I think we should not really be thinking too much about building a 60,000-mile elevator. Not this century." On space solar power: "If there's anyone in the world who should love space solar power, it's me. I'm chairman and the largest shareholder of a solar company called SolarCity, and I've got a rocket company. So it should be perfect. Unfortunately, I don't think space solar power makes sense. I wish it did because that'd be awesome. But even if you assume it costs zero to transport the solar panels to space, when you take into account the equipment to convert the energy to microwaves, then equipment on the ground to convert it back to electricity, just that capital cost blows you out of the water. It's not competitive with terrestrial solar power. So there's no point in even thinking about it." On fuel costs: "The fuel and oxidizer cost is really super low. For our big rocket, it's only a couple hundred thousand dollars. For our small rocket, it's about $30,000 or $40,000. If you just look at the propellant cost, it's very, very cheap." On the long-term goal: "One of the design goals for Falcon 9 is that it can go from in the hangar to in the air in under 60 minutes, which would be super fast for a rocket, particularly a big rocket. It's going to take several flights before we get there. But as long as we lay the foundation and make sure the design is capable of that, we can at least have the possibility of getting to a flight an hour in the future."
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Elon Musk in 2008: "NASA was going to pay Russia $70M per astronaut. SpaceX could do it for $15M" Musk is presenting SpaceX to a small audience. He shows a video of the Falcon 9 first stage firing: "This is almost a million pounds of thrust in vacuum, about four times the maximum thrust of a 747. It's pretty much Armageddon down there. You don't want to be standing at the base of that test stand." He explains the NASA contract: "The contract SpaceX has right now is to demonstrate cargo transfer to the space station and return of experiments to Earth. What we're hoping NASA will exercise is an option on that contract to also carry astronauts. I think they will exercise that option fairly soon." On the coming gap in American spaceflight: "The Space Shuttle is retiring in 2010. So unless our spacecraft is active, the US will not have the ability to send people to orbit. For about five or six years, unless SpaceX is successful, there will be no American manned space capability. There'll just be the Russians." He describes the situation bluntly: "The Russians are charging us over $70 million per seat after the shuttle retires. They got us over a barrel and they're doing us hard. We'll spend half a billion dollars per year on the Russians just buying tickets for six or seven astronauts to go to the space station." Musk shares SpaceX's cost: "Our cost per person, even assuming no reusability, assuming every bit of it is expended and no refurbishment, is about $15 million per person. And it's us. The jobs are here. So I think it's kind of a no-brainer. But no-brainers in Washington DC don't always happen." On Congress: "We've been given money for the cargo portion but not for the manned portion. The amount we're asking for to get this done is $300 million. For every year that we're dependent on the Russians, we have to send them half a billion dollars. It seems kind of ludicrous. But anyway, that's DC." Someone asks about the space elevator: "The idea is you have this really long cable, like 40 to 60,000 miles long, with the ends way out in space and the base on Earth. There are a lot of issues with the space elevator. It relies on super strong materials, carbon nanotubes. Until we build, say, a carbon nanotube footbridge, then I think we should not really be thinking too much about building a 60,000-mile elevator. Not this century." On space solar power: "If there's anyone in the world who should love space solar power, it's me. I'm chairman and the largest shareholder of a solar company called SolarCity, and I've got a rocket company. So it should be perfect. Unfortunately, I don't think space solar power makes sense. I wish it did because that'd be awesome. But even if you assume it costs zero to transport the solar panels to space, when you take into account the equipment to convert the energy to microwaves, then equipment on the ground to convert it back to electricity, just that capital cost blows you out of the water. It's not competitive with terrestrial solar power. So there's no point in even thinking about it." On fuel costs: "The fuel and oxidizer cost is really super low. For our big rocket, it's only a couple hundred thousand dollars. For our small rocket, it's about $30,000 or $40,000. If you just look at the propellant cost, it's very, very cheap." On the long-term goal: "One of the design goals for Falcon 9 is that it can go from in the hangar to in the air in under 60 minutes, which would be super fast for a rocket, particularly a big rocket. It's going to take several flights before we get there. But as long as we lay the foundation and make sure the design is capable of that, we can at least have the possibility of getting to a flight an hour in the future."

Grey

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LIST OF ALL STARSHIP FLIGHTS IN ORDER • Back on April 20, 2023, Starship Flight 1 blasted off with an explosive debut – it lifted off strong but lost control and broke apart minutes later. • November 18, 2023’s Flight 2 pulled off the first hot-staging separation successfully, sending the ship higher even though neither stage survived to the end. • On March 14, 2024, Flight 3 reached space for the first time, completed major test objectives, and proved real progress despite a rough reentry. • June 6, 2024 brought Flight 4 and the first controlled soft splashdowns for both booster and ship – reusability was starting to feel within reach. • October 13, 2024’s Flight 5 was unforgettable: they caught the returning Super Heavy booster with the tower arms on the very first try. • November 19, 2024 saw Flight 6 carry the first payload to space and nail a beautiful daylight ship splashdown in the ocean. • January 16, 2025 marked Flight 7 and the Block 2 era – another booster catch but the ship was lost to a propellant issue. • March 6, 2025 on Flight 8 delivered yet another successful tower catch despite some engine trouble on the booster. • May 27, 2025’s Flight 9 pushed the limits of booster reuse but ran into landing problems, while the ship faced its own reentry challenges. • August 26, 2025 Flight 10 shone bright with successful satellite deployment, an in-space engine relight, and a spot-on ship splashdown. • October 13, 2025’s Flight 11 wrapped up the Block 2 program on a high with excellent reentry performance and precise targeting. • May 22, 2026 brought Flight 12 with the new V3 Starship launching from Pad 2 – it deployed payloads and had the ship mostly ace its profile, though the booster had a tough ocean impact.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Clip: Nic Cruz Patane
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LIST OF ALL STARSHIP FLIGHTS IN ORDER • Back on April 20, 2023, Starship Flight 1 blasted off with an explosive debut – it lifted off strong but lost control and broke apart minutes later. • November 18, 2023’s Flight 2 pulled off the first hot-staging separation successfully, sending the ship higher even though neither stage survived to the end. • On March 14, 2024, Flight 3 reached space for the first time, completed major test objectives, and proved real progress despite a rough reentry. • June 6, 2024 brought Flight 4 and the first controlled soft splashdowns for both booster and ship – reusability was starting to feel within reach. • October 13, 2024’s Flight 5 was unforgettable: they caught the returning Super Heavy booster with the tower arms on the very first try. • November 19, 2024 saw Flight 6 carry the first payload to space and nail a beautiful daylight ship splashdown in the ocean. • January 16, 2025 marked Flight 7 and the Block 2 era – another booster catch but the ship was lost to a propellant issue. • March 6, 2025 on Flight 8 delivered yet another successful tower catch despite some engine trouble on the booster. • May 27, 2025’s Flight 9 pushed the limits of booster reuse but ran into landing problems, while the ship faced its own reentry challenges. • August 26, 2025 Flight 10 shone bright with successful satellite deployment, an in-space engine relight, and a spot-on ship splashdown. • October 13, 2025’s Flight 11 wrapped up the Block 2 program on a high with excellent reentry performance and precise targeting. • May 22, 2026 brought Flight 12 with the new V3 Starship launching from Pad 2 – it deployed payloads and had the ship mostly ace its profile, though the booster had a tough ocean impact.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Clip: Nic Cruz Patane

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LARGE NUMBERS OF Americans harshly criticized China’s re-usable booster rocket on social media, saying that the US had already achieved similar feats. They are missing the point. The world took such an interest in China’s achievement not because they claimed to be first--they did not--but because a nation from a poor part of the world successfully did what the world’s wealthiest country had done. Remember, China had the same GDP as India as recently as 1986. It’s not specific achievements, but the speed and velocity of China’s rise that is terrifying the US political-media establishment. And that’s why the US is heavily arming Japan, Taiwan, Australia and a dozen other places to stand by to attack China. . COMPARE PROGRESS The missing context of the reports is this: The US, European nations, and New Zealand are ALL actively working on creating reusable rockets of one kind or another. For an Asian nation to zoom to second place is notable. What the Chinese did this week was to fire a rocket into space and successfully land an orbital booster at sea, for reuse. In achieving this, it can be said that China’s Long March 10B rocket is following in the footsteps of the US. Other rockets which have done this are Falcon 9 in 2015 (by SpaceX, helmed by Elon Musk) and New Glenn in 2025 (by Blue Origin, a Jeff Bezos project). . AHEAD OF EUROPE Yet the Chinese did not demonstrate a copy of those systems, but a unique set-up of their own, with the rocket guided down into a floating landing pad while firing retro-boosters. By achieving this feat, the Chinese have overtaken other rich countries, confirming the velocity of China’s rise. Europe’s Ariane Group has been working with the European Space Agency on a reusable rocket stage called Themis. A New Zealand-US project called Rocket Lab has fired boosters, and then parachuted them into the ocean, so parts can be reused on later launches. China has apparently overtaken both projects. . NEXT: SCI-FI ROCKETS It is worth noting that the Chinese are testing multiple systems—so they are also deploying systems where a rocket flies straight up and then returns to earth, intact, to land upright, in the style which has been seen for a half a century in sci-fi movies. Active Chinese companies in this area include LandSpace, Space Epoch, Deep Blue Aerospace and Galactic Energy. So China can say to its American critics: “Yes, you were first. But we’re happy to be making remarkable progress in this area.” Yet the elite in the US will think differently. Their attitude is more likely to be something like this: “Hey, we may be number one now, but at the rate they are going, we’re gonna be eating their dust. How can we Tonya them?” .
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LARGE NUMBERS OF Americans harshly criticized China’s re-usable booster rocket on social media, saying that the US had already achieved similar feats. They are missing the point. The world took such an interest in China’s achievement not because they claimed to be first--they did not--but because a nation from a poor part of the world successfully did what the world’s wealthiest country had done. Remember, China had the same GDP as India as recently as 1986. It’s not specific achievements, but the speed and velocity of China’s rise that is terrifying the US political-media establishment. And that’s why the US is heavily arming Japan, Taiwan, Australia and a dozen other places to stand by to attack China. . COMPARE PROGRESS The missing context of the reports is this: The US, European nations, and New Zealand are ALL actively working on creating reusable rockets of one kind or another. For an Asian nation to zoom to second place is notable. What the Chinese did this week was to fire a rocket into space and successfully land an orbital booster at sea, for reuse. In achieving this, it can be said that China’s Long March 10B rocket is following in the footsteps of the US. Other rockets which have done this are Falcon 9 in 2015 (by SpaceX, helmed by Elon Musk) and New Glenn in 2025 (by Blue Origin, a Jeff Bezos project). . AHEAD OF EUROPE Yet the Chinese did not demonstrate a copy of those systems, but a unique set-up of their own, with the rocket guided down into a floating landing pad while firing retro-boosters. By achieving this feat, the Chinese have overtaken other rich countries, confirming the velocity of China’s rise. Europe’s Ariane Group has been working with the European Space Agency on a reusable rocket stage called Themis. A New Zealand-US project called Rocket Lab has fired boosters, and then parachuted them into the ocean, so parts can be reused on later launches. China has apparently overtaken both projects. . NEXT: SCI-FI ROCKETS It is worth noting that the Chinese are testing multiple systems—so they are also deploying systems where a rocket flies straight up and then returns to earth, intact, to land upright, in the style which has been seen for a half a century in sci-fi movies. Active Chinese companies in this area include LandSpace, Space Epoch, Deep Blue Aerospace and Galactic Energy. So China can say to its American critics: “Yes, you were first. But we’re happy to be making remarkable progress in this area.” Yet the elite in the US will think differently. Their attitude is more likely to be something like this: “Hey, we may be number one now, but at the rate they are going, we’re gonna be eating their dust. How can we Tonya them?” .

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elon musk just sat down with his SpaceX team and explained exactly how they're going to turn humanity into a kardashev type 2 civilization it's one of the most insane things i've ever watched: 1. humanity currently uses less than one trillionth of the sun's energy output. a trillion is a million times a million. on the kardashev scale, the one physicists use to measure how advanced a civilization actually is, we are not even registering. we are effectively non-existent. 2. starship is the first rocket in history designed to be fully reusable. every other mode of transport, cars, planes, ships, bicycles, you take reusability for granted. rockets have always been thrown away after one use. if you had to throw away the plane after every flight, almost nobody would be flying. 3. spacex currently launches 85 to 90% of all mass to orbit on earth. the rest of the world, including most of the us, accounts for maybe 5 to 7%. that's before starship even gets going. 4. the plan is to go from 2,500 tons to orbit per year to a million tons per year. in roughly 3 years. that's not a projection. that's the internal target. 5. data centers are moving to space. by end of next year spacex is targeting 1 gigawatt of ai compute in orbit. then 10x every year after that. 10 gigawatts in 2.5 years. 100 gigawatts in 3.5 years. a terawatt eventually, which is twice the entire electricity consumption of the united states. 6. the ai satellite is actually simpler to build than a starlink satellite. it's mostly solar panels, a radiator, and a rack of gpus. the hard part was already solved building starlink. they're just making it bigger. 7. latency from orbit is about 3 milliseconds. light travels 300 km per millisecond. some people assume orbital compute means high latency. it doesn't. it's 3 milliseconds away. 8. the terafab will be 100 million square feet. ten times the size of the tesla gigafactory texas. the entire global chip industry is on track to hit maybe 100 gigawatts of ai compute per year. a terawatt requires a completely different order of manufacturing. that's why they're building it themselves. 9. to go beyond a terawatt you have to go to the moon. no atmosphere. one-sixth earth's gravity. you manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from moon materials. then you launch ai satellites into deep space using an electromagnetic rail gun. no rocket needed. musk calls this the mass driver. this is the next step on the actual roadmap. 10. if enough mass is going to the moon to run a rail gun operation at that scale, it also means regular people can go. musk's exact words: "i think everyone should go to the moon at least once." 11. the ai satellite has about a terabit of laser link connectivity. it connects to the starlink constellation which then sends data to the ground using frequencies that penetrate clouds and even roofs. the connection never drops regardless of weather. 12. the reference design for the first ai satellites is built around nvidia rubin and GB300 chips. but the architecture is open. google TPUs, amazon trainium, any chip can go up. spacex is building the infrastructure, not locking in the compute. 13. spacex is the only operator on earth with experience running a constellation at the scale of 10,000 satellites. nobody else is even close. that operational knowledge is a moat that cannot be replicated quickly.
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elon musk just sat down with his SpaceX team and explained exactly how they're going to turn humanity into a kardashev type 2 civilization it's one of the most insane things i've ever watched: 1. humanity currently uses less than one trillionth of the sun's energy output. a trillion is a million times a million. on the kardashev scale, the one physicists use to measure how advanced a civilization actually is, we are not even registering. we are effectively non-existent. 2. starship is the first rocket in history designed to be fully reusable. every other mode of transport, cars, planes, ships, bicycles, you take reusability for granted. rockets have always been thrown away after one use. if you had to throw away the plane after every flight, almost nobody would be flying. 3. spacex currently launches 85 to 90% of all mass to orbit on earth. the rest of the world, including most of the us, accounts for maybe 5 to 7%. that's before starship even gets going. 4. the plan is to go from 2,500 tons to orbit per year to a million tons per year. in roughly 3 years. that's not a projection. that's the internal target. 5. data centers are moving to space. by end of next year spacex is targeting 1 gigawatt of ai compute in orbit. then 10x every year after that. 10 gigawatts in 2.5 years. 100 gigawatts in 3.5 years. a terawatt eventually, which is twice the entire electricity consumption of the united states. 6. the ai satellite is actually simpler to build than a starlink satellite. it's mostly solar panels, a radiator, and a rack of gpus. the hard part was already solved building starlink. they're just making it bigger. 7. latency from orbit is about 3 milliseconds. light travels 300 km per millisecond. some people assume orbital compute means high latency. it doesn't. it's 3 milliseconds away. 8. the terafab will be 100 million square feet. ten times the size of the tesla gigafactory texas. the entire global chip industry is on track to hit maybe 100 gigawatts of ai compute per year. a terawatt requires a completely different order of manufacturing. that's why they're building it themselves. 9. to go beyond a terawatt you have to go to the moon. no atmosphere. one-sixth earth's gravity. you manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from moon materials. then you launch ai satellites into deep space using an electromagnetic rail gun. no rocket needed. musk calls this the mass driver. this is the next step on the actual roadmap. 10. if enough mass is going to the moon to run a rail gun operation at that scale, it also means regular people can go. musk's exact words: "i think everyone should go to the moon at least once." 11. the ai satellite has about a terabit of laser link connectivity. it connects to the starlink constellation which then sends data to the ground using frequencies that penetrate clouds and even roofs. the connection never drops regardless of weather. 12. the reference design for the first ai satellites is built around nvidia rubin and GB300 chips. but the architecture is open. google TPUs, amazon trainium, any chip can go up. spacex is building the infrastructure, not locking in the compute. 13. spacex is the only operator on earth with experience running a constellation at the scale of 10,000 satellites. nobody else is even close. that operational knowledge is a moat that cannot be replicated quickly.

Jaynit

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BREAKING: Inside Impulse Space with Tom Mueller (Tom Mueller) (SpaceX's 1st Employee) FULL TOUR The famous engineer behind the Merlin engine, now Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (Impulse Space) ICYMI: Merlin still powers Falcon 9 today, the most reliable rocket engine ever flown & the highest thrust-to-weight ever developed. It's the workhorse behind nearly every SpaceX mission: Starlink launches, Dragon crew & cargo flights to the ISS, & booster landings Tom walks us through the factory floor, from the avionics clean room to a live rocket engine firing in the vacuum chamber Impulse is building the in-space mobility layer: the vehicles & engines that move spacecraft after launch, from LEO to GEO, the Moon, infinity & beyond We cover: → Mira: precision maneuvering spacecraft & its saiph thrusters (8 thrusters, ~50 lbs thrust, 5-yr orbit life) → Helios: long haul same-day delivery vehicle (12 tons of LOX/methane, LEO to GEO) → Deneb Engine: 15,000 lbs thrust engine that powers Helios, ox-rich staged combustion, carbon skirt running over 3,000°F → Why 3D printing is "almost a cheat code" for rocket engines → In-house composite tanks, Novaloy, & copper liners machined from 700 lbs down to 25 → 3 spacecraft in orbit + a 1,200-meter rendezvous → Starlink, iterating Merlin & Raptor, & working with Elon Musk → Nuclear propulsion, the Moon, & why compute needs to move to space 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Tom Mueller, Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (00:49) Inside Impulse Space (02:32) Avionics Bay floor (02:59) Building rockets at home (03:50) Mira and Helios (08:00) Why Tom left SpaceX (09:33) The Deneb Engine walkthrough (11:42) Testing in Mojave (12:23) Favorite part of the Engine (13:30) How it's 3D Printed (14:21) Why 3D Printing changes everything (16:54) Finding Talent for COPVs (17:28) No Modern hardware without software (19:52) The Mill Turn explained (22:42) Payload Deck Design (25:28) Entering the Secret Area (30:48) Thrust, Flow Rate, & 100 Sensors (32:13) Collision avoidance in Orbit (32:57) The Electric Propulsion Chamber (34:28) Nuclear Electric is the future (38:49) Data Centers in Space (40:28) SpaceX & Starlink's Growth (41:10) Working with Elon (42:07) If not CEO, then what? (42:32) Moon matters more than Mars
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BREAKING: Inside Impulse Space with Tom Mueller (Tom Mueller) (SpaceX's 1st Employee) FULL TOUR The famous engineer behind the Merlin engine, now Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (Impulse Space) ICYMI: Merlin still powers Falcon 9 today, the most reliable rocket engine ever flown & the highest thrust-to-weight ever developed. It's the workhorse behind nearly every SpaceX mission: Starlink launches, Dragon crew & cargo flights to the ISS, & booster landings Tom walks us through the factory floor, from the avionics clean room to a live rocket engine firing in the vacuum chamber Impulse is building the in-space mobility layer: the vehicles & engines that move spacecraft after launch, from LEO to GEO, the Moon, infinity & beyond We cover: → Mira: precision maneuvering spacecraft & its saiph thrusters (8 thrusters, ~50 lbs thrust, 5-yr orbit life) → Helios: long haul same-day delivery vehicle (12 tons of LOX/methane, LEO to GEO) → Deneb Engine: 15,000 lbs thrust engine that powers Helios, ox-rich staged combustion, carbon skirt running over 3,000°F → Why 3D printing is "almost a cheat code" for rocket engines → In-house composite tanks, Novaloy, & copper liners machined from 700 lbs down to 25 → 3 spacecraft in orbit + a 1,200-meter rendezvous → Starlink, iterating Merlin & Raptor, & working with Elon Musk → Nuclear propulsion, the Moon, & why compute needs to move to space 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Tom Mueller, Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (00:49) Inside Impulse Space (02:32) Avionics Bay floor (02:59) Building rockets at home (03:50) Mira and Helios (08:00) Why Tom left SpaceX (09:33) The Deneb Engine walkthrough (11:42) Testing in Mojave (12:23) Favorite part of the Engine (13:30) How it's 3D Printed (14:21) Why 3D Printing changes everything (16:54) Finding Talent for COPVs (17:28) No Modern hardware without software (19:52) The Mill Turn explained (22:42) Payload Deck Design (25:28) Entering the Secret Area (30:48) Thrust, Flow Rate, & 100 Sensors (32:13) Collision avoidance in Orbit (32:57) The Electric Propulsion Chamber (34:28) Nuclear Electric is the future (38:49) Data Centers in Space (40:28) SpaceX & Starlink's Growth (41:10) Working with Elon (42:07) If not CEO, then what? (42:32) Moon matters more than Mars

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