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Story of the week
The Space Force has contracted out its next “ responsive quad ” mission , and this one is a doozy . The two awardees , Rocket Lab and startup True Anomaly , will each build and launch space vehicle that will conduct rendezvous and proximity operations on cranial orbit .
In the Space Force ’s words : “ The vender will exercise a realistic threat answer scenario in an on - scope space domain consciousness demo call Victus Haze . ”
The two companies will have to operate under by choice pixilated prison term anatomy , too — the first responsive space charge from Firefly Aerospace and Millennium Spaceset new recordsin price of launch facility — so we ’ll definitely follow this delegacy tight when it launches next year .
Scoop of the week
secret financial statements from SpaceX for 2018 and 2019 capture an early coup d’oeil at the degree to which the company is probably dependent on its Starlink business unit , and get the Starship rocket salad online , to become cash flow electropositive .
While the comprehensive balance sheets are five years one-time , they provide an intimate look inside the operations of arguably one of the most important , and closelipped , individual companies in the U.S.
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What we’re reading
I was very concerned to see this reportage from Bloomberg on Starlink ’s profitability — or not . It ’s a really nice complement to my scoop above : Taken together , the two stories state a story about the importance of Starlink as a revenue - driver for the company ’s long condition , and substantially ambitious , plan to colonize Mars .
This week in space history
Houston , we have a job …
This week ’s place history segment is dedicated to the Apollo 13 mission , which launch on April 11 and repay to Earth on April 17 . The three - somebody crew was designate for the moon , but those plans were fleetly put to an death when an atomic number 8 armored combat vehicle in the service module snap two day after launch .
