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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Plots Launch of Its Mega Rocket. Next Year. Maybe
- gardenfelder 3y agoRelated (2020) [1] (2023)[2] [1] https://medium.com/swlh/nasa-said-no-to-jeff-bezos-cheaper-sls-mega-rocket-9ed423b7e011 https://medium.com/swlh/nasa-said-no-to-jeff-bezos-cheaper-s... [2] https://phys.org/news/2023-05-spacex-nasa-bezos-blue-moon.html https://phys.org/news/2023-05-spacex-nasa-bezos-blue-moon.ht...
- hindsightbias 3y agoIt gets better: > Amazon has confirmed it now plans to launch the first two test satellites for the company's Kuiper broadband network on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as soon as next month, shifting the payloads off of the inaugural flight of ULA's new Vulcan rocket. As the Vulcan also uses Jeff's BE-4 engine. > Amazon needs to deploy half of its 3,236 satellites by July 2026, a deadline to maintain network authorization from the FCC. Not gonna happen. We can't even call it space grift, as nothing is ever going to make space. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/amazons-first-internet-satellites-will-launch-on-atlas-v-rocket-not-vulcan/ https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/amazons-first-internet...
- archo 3y agohttps://archive.is/81Tgx https://archive.is/81Tgx
- jtode 3y agoSoundtrack for yall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzjCWyV4CIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzjCWyV4CIw