Weekly Space Report: SpaceX 2025 Economics Review

SCANALYZER The Happening World
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Highlights:

  • Pad 2 catch arms massive new actuator cylinders

  • Pad 2 launch mount scaffolding slowly coming down.

  • Pad 1 foundation removal continuing

  • Pad 1 tanks and plumbing gone

  • New ship test article, engine skirt ring, to mate with booster host stage test article.

  • Gigabay construction cranes raised to work on level 3 structure.

  • Massey’s V3 conversion loose details

  • Unknown hardware at Massey’s suspected to hold ship fuel transfer test kit

  • SpaceX economic impact report, possible IPO

  • New test frames for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels at Massey’s

  • Bad batch of COPVs suspected.

  • 165 Falcon 9 launches in 2025, plus five Starship test flights

  • Thousands of Starlink satellites moving to lower orbits

  • Falcon 9 COSMO SkyMed FM3 mission, expected to be last of 2026, delayed to first of 2026.

  • Cargo Dragon at ISS reboosts its orbit

  • Axiom Space new lunar spacesuit reveal

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I looked around for Kessler syndrome models a while back in response to the emerging demand for space-based machine learning centers.

It’s rather strange that there isn’t an open source model that is credible. Apparently SpaceX has a model but it is not available to the public.

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