Weekly Space Report: The Reusability Race Heats Up!

Highlights:

  • Pad 1 Demolition screaming along

  • Pad 1 design change implications

  • Pad 1 plumbing, tankage, and cryo hardware all being touched

  • Pad 2 test hardware “I Be Proofin” placed on the new OLM

  • Booster scrapping update

  • Giga Bay construction crane amusement

  • Giga Bay structure assembly progress

  • Ship V3 test articles spotted

  • Massey’s test stand gets its new ship quick disconnect–first of the V3 style.

  • Blue Origin New Glenn 2 scrubbed on Sunday, but..

  • …complete success on Thursday.

  • Booster returned to land on Jacklyn with interesting hover action

  • Escapade mission on track, both spacecraft communicating as expected

  • Rocket Lab Neutron schedule update

  • Falcon 9: Starlink 6-87, Starlink 6-89, Starlink 6-85

  • ULA Atlas ViaSat-3-2

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