Hiya and welcome again to TechCrunch Area. I hope everybody has a implausible July 4 this week. Go eat a sizzling canine.
Learn my story from final week on the causes of Starliner’s further delay and what it would imply for Boeing’s Starliner program.
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The indeniable story of the week is the huge $843 million contract NASA awarded to SpaceX to develop the automobile that can deorbit the Worldwide Area Station. As soon as the station enters the Earth’s ambiance, it’ll expend, however the contract is to make sure that is achieved in a way secure to people on the bottom. There are scant particulars in regards to the U.S. Deorbit Car, because it’s being referred to as, however one NASA official did say it could be primarily based on “Dragon heritage” {hardware}.
Try my story about Starfish Area’s new settlement with Intelsat. The GEO servicing market remains to be a number of years away, however offers like this one present that it’s a lot nearer to being realized than the haters may suppose…
NASA has an article titled “Fourth of July Holidays in Space” and people — it’s as pleasant because the title makes it sound. Apparently, there wasn’t a July 4 celebration on orbit till 1982, and the second passed off 10 years later! Now that we have now a steady presence of NASA astronauts on board the ISS, such celebrations are an annual occasion. All I’ve to say is: God bless stars-and-stripes pants in house.
