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This week , I sat down with Orbit Fab CEO Daniel Faber to mouth about the fellowship ’s first fueling port officially hitting the market . The price tag ? Just $ 30,000 .
“ SpaceX has made arugula reusable , Orbit Fab nominate artificial satellite reusable , ” he said . “ In this humans today , if you ’re running a rocket company , and you ’re not work towards reusable garden rocket , you ’re working to a dead final stage . The same is truthful of planet : If you ’re not making your satellite reusable , you ’re just putting preordained dust into orbit . ”
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I learned a lot from this deep dive into China ’s battle to institute on external married person to its International Lunar Research Station opening . It can be a conflict to sympathize China ’s space programme as a non - Chinese - speak Westerner , so I always apprize Andrew Jones ’ reporting .
This week in space history
On April 1 , 1960 , THE VERY FIRST weather orbiter was launch by NASA . It ’s odd to mean about , because blue Earth sphere is apace filling out with spacecraft that provide tons of useful data point on weather … but we had to start somewhere . And we started with TIROS 1 ( Television and InfraRed Observation Satellite).Here ’s NASA :
The TIROS Program ( Television Infrared Observation Satellite ) was NASA ’s first experimental dance step to determine if satellites could be utilitarian in the study of the Earth . At that time , the strength of orbiter reflection was still unproven . Since satellites were a new technology , the TIROS Program also tested various purpose issue for spacecraft : pawn , data and in operation parameters . The goal was to ameliorate planet applications for Earth - bound decisions , such as ‘ should we empty the coast because of the hurricane ? ’
