SpaceX Achievements
Generate Growing Interest in Reusable Launchers (Source:
Space News)
As SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 with a previously-flown first stage
May 22, both the company and its competitors are seeing a growing
acceptance of reusable vehicles in the overall market. The Falcon 9
that launched five Iridium Next satellites and two GRACE-FO Earth
science satellites from California used a first stage that first flew
in January, carrying the classified Zuma payload. That booster was the
12th first stage to be reflown, counting the two used as side boosters
in the inaugural Falcon Heavy launch in February.
Most of those Falcon 9 missions with reflown boosters have been for
commercial customers, enticed at least in part by the modest discounts
SpaceX has offered for using previously-flown stages. NASA has flown
two Dragon cargo missions to the International Space Station on reflown
boosters, but the agency says it evaluates the use of such vehicles on
a case-by-case basis.
We see a future where the most risk-averse customers are likely to
prefer to fly on the second flight of a booster rather than the first
flight,” SpaceX's Josh Brost said. “Once you demonstrate you can fly it
many times, you can see that first flight as essentially a check
flight.” Brost said that SpaceX was working with “other government
entities” about the use of previously-flown boosters. That’s likely to
include the U.S. Air Force, which has not yet certified reflown Falcon
9 vehicles for its missions. (5/23)
Air Force Aims for
Reliable Launch Services in Spite of Dramatic Changes in Commercial,
Military Space (Source: Space News)
Sending national security satellites into orbit is about to become more
complicated. In the past, launches largely fell into two categories:
big, expensive satellites requiring extremely reliable rides and
smaller satellites on slightly riskier rockets. In the future, the U.S.
Air Force will launch satellites of all different sizes for customers
with varying degrees of risk tolerance.
Through the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, the Air Force
has sent more than $50 billion in assets into orbit on 72 successful
launches, Strizzi said. The Air Force’s Rocket Systems Launch Program,
which is geared to smaller satellites traveling on orbital or
suborbital rockets, has flown more than 700 payloads for various
research and development, and technology demonstration missions,
Strizzi said. He said a key ingredient of the Air Force’s success has
been its intimate knowledge of how each rockets is designed, tested,
fabricated and operated.
To meet the often conflicting requirements for speed and mission
assurance, the Air Force is exploring greater use of parts that do not
meet military standards, additive manufacturing, new propellants,
collaboration with NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office, and
combining the best practices of traditional space programs with
elements of commercial “new space,” Strizzi said. “We hustle but we do
not hurry or rush,” he said. “We are not running with scissors. We do
all the right steps along the way to ensure high reliability.” (5/23)
NOAA’s New GOES-17
Weather Satellite has Degraded Vision at Night (Source:
SpaceFlight Now)
Engineers are studying a malfunction with the main imaging instrument
on NOAA’s GOES-17 weather satellite, launched March 1, that could limit
the observatory’s ability to monitor storms, winds and other weather
phenomena at night, officials said Wednesday. A cooling system aboard
the satellite is unable to chill infrared detectors inside the Advanced
Baseline Imager on GOES-17 to proper temperatures, degrading the
camera’s performance.
The imager is designed to be sensitive to light in 16 channels,
including 13 infrared and near-infrared wavelengths, and three colors
in the visible spectrum. The thermal control anomaly currently under
investigation affects the 13 infrared and near-infrared channels,
according to Steve Volz, assistant administrator for NOAA’s satellite
and information service. (5/23)
ICEYE Achieves the
‘Impossible’ with Miniature Radar Satellite (Source: Space
News)
Until ICEYE produced its first image in January from a Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) on its 70-kilogram ICEYE-X1 satellite, many people
said microsatellites could not perform radar missions. While not
impossible, it was challenging. To succeed, ICEYE’s founders Rafal
Modrzewski and Pekka Laurila had to dispense with a lot of the
traditional rules for building space-based radars.
Before founding ICEYE, Modrzewski moved from Warsaw, Poland, to
Helsinki, Finland, to study radio science engineering at Aalto
University and begin building a satellite. There, he met Laurila and
the two enrolled in an Aalto University venture formation course taught
by Mike Lyons, the Stanford University engineering professor who now
serves as chief executive of ICEYE US Inc.
Modrzewski readily admits ICEYE’s satellites would fail some of the
tests NASA spacecraft undergo before launch. Still, the first satellite
is in orbit and it is gathering SAR imagery. “It did past this one test
that was actually the ultimate test,” Modrzewski said. (5/23)
China to Launch Another
11 BeiDou-3 Satellites in 2018 (Source: Xinhua)
China will launch another 11 BeiDou-3 satellites by the end of 2018,
adding to its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), said
an official at an academic conference on Wednesday. China has already
launched eight BeiDou-3 satellites. The satellites will provide initial
services for countries and regions along the Belt and Road by the end
of the year, said Wang Li, chairman of China Satellite Navigation
System Committee.
Addressing the Ninth China Satellite Navigation Conference in Harbin,
capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Wang said the
BeiDou system is moving to become a global service provider after
offering stable and reliable time and space information for clients in
the Asia-Pacific region. (5/23)
How SpaceX Beat Boeing to
Become a $28 Billion Aerospace Juggernaut (Source: CNBC)
SpaceX has vaulted to become one of the most valuable private companies
in the world, with a valuation estimated at $28 billion. As its
long-term prospects soar, it is steadily raising funds from global
investors to fuel its lofty ambitions. The company's achievements have
many awestruck: In February it launched the world's most powerful
rocket since NASA's Saturn V. It stood more than 21 stories high.
In 2019, Musk believes SpaceX will be completing "short trips" for its
Mars rocket system, while also beginning to roll out its constellation
of 4,425 satellites. It is in the next stage of Musk's master plan to
put 1 million people on the Red Planet to ensure the survival of the
human race in the event of a world war or catastrophe on Earth.
The competition — archrival United Launch Alliance, a joint venture
between Boeing and Lockheed Martin — has certainly been put on notice.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg told CNBC in February that he thinks
SpaceX is "adding energy to the space market," which is "good for the
country." "I don't think anyone can" compete with even Falcon Heavy,
let alone BFR, former Pentagon Under Secretary of Defense for
acquisition tech and logistics John Young told CNBC in February. "Musk
said it's 'game over,' and I believe that's true." (5/22)
Take a 360 Tour inside
Boeing's Starliner Factory at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport
(Source: Boeing)
One, two, three Boeing CST-100 Starliners are coming together inside
this historic spacecraft factory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
Florida. The goal of the commercially developed and operating
spacecraft is to return crew launch capabilities to NASA and the United
States. Click here.
(5/23)
Spaceflight Orchestrates
Smallsat Launch on Arianespace’s Vega (Source: Via
Satellite)
Arianespace has signed an agreement with Spaceflight Industries for the
launch of several small payloads. This will be the inaugural mission
for Spaceflight customer spacecraft on an Arianespace vehicle. The
initial batch of spacecraft is slated for launch aboard Vega in early
2019 from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Center.
The contract with Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries covers a
microsatellite and a significant number of CubeSats to be launched on
the Small Spacecraft Mission System (SSMS) Proof of Concept (POC)
flight as well as on a subsequent Vega SSMS flight about one year
later. The Vega POC flight will also be the first mission of the SSMS,
a modular carbon fiber dispenser developed within a program initiated
by the European Space Agency. (5/23)
3-D Printers And Robotic
Arms: How One Startup Plans To Build Colonies In Space
(Source: Forbes)
When history’s pilgrims and pioneers arrived in a new territory, they
used the land’s natural resources to build their settlements. Space
colonists, on the other hand, will have to bring materials from Earth
and assemble them on Mars. Andrew Rush, president and CEO of
space-based manufacturing firm Made In Space, believes the process of
creating off-world infrastructure will be similar to building IKEA
furniture. Only the parts will be made with an advanced 3-D printer and
put together by an autonomous robot.
Made In Space has been at the forefront of space manufacturing since it
was founded in 2010. Four years ago, the California-based company’s 3-D
printer became the first manufacturing device in space when it was
launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a NASA
demonstration project. The goal was to prove that a 3-D printer could
be developed for use in zero gravity, and on 17 Dec. 2014 the device
produced its first tool — a ratchet wrench — using a design file
transmitted from Earth. Click here.
(5/23)
Shotwell Says SpaceX is
Profitable (Source: LA Times)
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the privately held space company
is valued at almost $28 billion based on recent funding rounds, and
that it is profitable. Shotwell said the company has had "many years"
of profitability. She admitted 2016 — when a Falcon 9 rocket exploded
on a Florida launch pad, destroying a commercial communications
satellite it was set to launch — was "tough," though she stopped short
of saying the company lost money then. (5/22)
Cruz, Nelson Criticize
Plan to End Direct ISS Funding in 2025 (lource: Parabolic
Arc)
Sharply conflicting opinions about the future of the International
Space Station (ISS) and America’s path forward in space were on view
last week in a Senate hearing room turned boxing ring. In one corner
was NASA Associate Administrator Bill Gerstenamier, representing a
Trump Administration that wants to end direct federal funding for ISS
in 2025 in order to pursue an aggressive campaign of sending astronauts
back to the moon. NASA would maintain a presence in Earth orbit,
becoming one of multiple users aboard a privatized ISS or
privately-owned stations.
In the opposite corner were Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Nelson
(D-FL). Normally divided on almost every issues, the senators were
united in their anger at what they viewed as the Trump Administration’s
unilateral decision to end station support as well as their
determination to keep the $100 billion facility operating until at
least 2028 for the sake of NASA, space exploration, America and their
states. The station’s current end date is 2024. (5/21)
This is What America’s
New Space Shuttles Look Like (Source: Quartz)
US astronauts haven’t had their own ride into orbit since the space
shuttle was retired in 2011. Two private companies are racing to
replace it and become the first to fly astronauts for NASA. Boeing and
SpaceX are being paid billions of dollars to build and operate crewed
space capsules that will take humans to the International Space
Station. NASA and the two companies recently shared new pictures of the
astronauts and their custom spacesuits training for their flights with
simulated missions in mock-up capsules. Click here.
(5/22)
Shetland Spaceport
Decision Expected in June (Source: Shetland News)
Last year Shetland Space Centre launched plans for a spaceport in the
north of the island as the government looks to kick-start the satellite
launching industry in the country. The team's proposals were discussed
by Shetland Islands Council's development committee on Monday and
chairman Alastair Cooper said the government is set to announce its
preferred sites for vertical and horizontal launches on 12 June.
Development director Neil Grant warned that the government's desire to
have launch capabilities by 2020 means that the clock is ticking. The
government is offering financial support for the country's first launch
site and there are other two other bids in Scotland from Sutherland and
the Western Isles. (5/23)
German Team Is Now Trying
to Make the ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Engine (Source:
Motherboard)
German physicists launched the SpaceDrive project to explore possible
sources of error in EmDrive experiments. Their first experiment
identified a possible source of false positives in past successful
EmDrive tests. In particular, they described their research results on
the EmDrive, a type of “impossible” spacecraft engine that is
theoretically able to generate thrust without any propellant. It’s a
bit like trying to design a Formula One race car that doesn’t need any
gas and is instead powered by the driver pushing on the inside of the
windshield.
While the researchers didn’t crack the secret to the
propellantless-engine, they did manage to create a hypersensitive
measurement device and identify sources of possible false positives
that will help to better characterize EmDrive experiments in the
future. (5/21)
Russia to Create Orbital
Internet Satellite Cluster by 2025 (Source: Tass)
Russian Space Systems Company (part of the State Space Corporation
Roscosmos) plans to implement a project to create a global satellite
communications network, which will require 288 satellites operating in
the 870 km orbit by 2025, Company representative and project Head Yuri
Mishin said. "The Efir project envisages an aerospace
infocommunications network. This is the project of creating orbital
Internet. We plan 288 satellites in the 870km obit. They will form a
system expected to start operating in 2025," Mishin said. (5/22)
Dozens of Volunteers
Apply for Joint US-Russian Simulated Moon Orbital Flight
(Source: Sputnik)
About 50 people from various countries have shown interest in an
experiment simulating the flight to an orbital station near the Moon,
said a representative of the Institute of Medicobiological Problems of
the Russian Academy of Sciences. The experiment is part of
international SIRIUS missions, which serve to help finish preparations
for deep space flights, including flights to planned lunar-orbit space
station Deep Space Gateway. (5/23)
NASA Satellites Track
Unusual Changes in Earth's Water Supplies (Source:
Space.com)
Fresh water is changing around the world, and a new set of NASA
satellite observations is helping scientists better understand why. A
new study suggests that the changes stem from human activities as well
as natural variations in the climate. The data comes from 14 years of
observations from the U.S./German Gravity Recovery and Climate
Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft mission.
The study shows that wet zones on Earth are getting even wetter, while
dry zones are drying up, according to a statement from NASA. This is
due to many factors, including climate change, how humans use water and
natural environmental cycles. Changes in fresh water, particularly from
ice near the poles (such as ice melting due to increasing
temperatures), could affect how quickly sea levels rise. (5/22)
NASA-Trained Astronaut
Joins Team in Bid for Australia's First Space Agency
(Source: ABC)
New South Wales is hoping some extra star power will help its bid to
bring the nation's first space agency to Sydney. Australia's first
astronaut, Dr Paul Scully-Power, has been enlisted by the NSW
Government to advise its bid to host the new Australian Space Agency.
"Everyone thinks about space as being way out there," Dr Scully-Power
said. "That used to be the case. But now it's way here. It's in our
hands." (5/23)
White House Objects to
HASC's Call for U.S. Space Command (Source: Space Policy
Online)
The White House is objecting to the House Armed Services Committee’s
(HASC’s) call for a U.S. Space Command to be created as a subunit of
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). The provision is part of the
FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) approved by HASC on
May 9. The House began consideration of the bill, H.R. 5515,
today (Tuesday). The White House’s Statement of Administration Policy
(SAP) says the provision is premature.
During debate on last year’s NDAA, the White House opposed HASC’s
attempt to create a Space Corps within the Air Force analogous to the
Marine Corps within the Department of the Navy. DOD, the Air Force, and
the Senate also opposed it. The final FY2018 NDAA required a study on
the best way to organize the Air Force and DOD to manage national
security space activities. An interim report is due in August and the
final version in December. (5/23)
B612 Foundation Embraces
Small Satellites for Asteroid Detection (Source: Science)
Last week, an asteroid the size of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza
whizzed by Earth, missing it by half the distance to the moon. The
concern that we may one day not be so lucky has long preoccupied the
B612 Foundation, dedicated to finding asteroids that cross Earth’s
orbit and could devastate humanity. B612 itself had a near-death
experience 3 years ago, when its bold plans for an asteroid-hunting
space telescope fell apart. But now, its ambitions are rising again
with a new technique for finding menacing objects.
On 10 May, B612 announced a partnership with York Space Systems, a
Denver-based maker of standard 85-kilogram satellites, to investigate
building a fleet of small asteroid hunters. For many years, B612—which
takes its name from the asteroid home of Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry’s
Little Prince—aimed to build and launch a much larger craft, Sentinel,
a $450 million space telescope with a 50-centimeter mirror.
In 2012, NASA agreed to provide logistical support. But fundraising
stalled and, in 2015, the agency ended its agreement with B612 because
it wasn’t meeting mileposts, essentially killing the telescope. Now,
B612 has developed a new technique to do the same thing at a far lower
cost with small space telescopes. Ed Lu, B612's co-founder, expects the
first telescope to cost about $10 million and believes a full
constellation “would be a factor of many, many cheaper” than Sentinel.
(5/23)
SpaceX Won’t Seek U.S.
Rural Broadband Subsidies for Starlink Constellation
(Source: Space News)
SpaceX says it will not go after any of the $2 billion in rural
broadband subsidies the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will
begin doling out this summer under its Connect America Fund II program.
The FCC invited telecommunications providers — including satellite
operators — to bid July 24 for Connect America subsidies meant to make
it financially worthwhile for companies to build out broadband networks
to rural and remote areas otherwise too expensive to cover. The
subsidies will be paid over 10 years using Universal Service Fund fees
U.S. telcos routinely collect from customers. (5/23)
Shotwell Sees Satellites
as Bigger Market Than Rockets (Source: GeekWire)
SpaceX is taking a commanding role in the rocket business — but Gwynne
Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer, expects
the satellite business to be more lucrative. Shotwell sized up SpaceX’s
road ahead in a CNBC interview that aired today in connection with the
cable network’s latest Disruptor 50 list. For the second year in a row,
the space venture founded by billionaire Elon Musk leads the list.
The 18 launches by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets accounted for 20 percent
of the world’s orbital liftoffs last year, and Shotwell said she
expects the launch tally to rise to between 24 and 28 for this year.
Next year, however, could bring a “slight slowdown” to a level that’s
more in line with 2017’s pace, Shotwell said. That’s due to a projected
decline in demand for satellite launches.
The satellite launch service market has grown to an estimated $5.5
billion in 2016, according to the latest State of the Satellite
Industry Report. But that pales in comparison with the $127.7 billion
market for satellite services and the $113.4 billion market for
satellite ground services. That’s why SpaceX is putting its chips down
on a plan to provide global broadband access through its own satellite
constellation, known as Starlink. (5/22)
The International Space
Station Should be Preserved (Source: TownHall)
The Trump Administration rolled out a long-term plan to end funding for
the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025, well after President
Trump is no longer in power. It is easy for the rulers of today to
direct future Administrations to take actions to save money and cut
federal spending. The problem with this idea is that it will
hurt national security by ceding outer space to America’s many enemies
and withdraw American participation in cooperative scientific research
with other nations. At the end of the day this decision will not save
the taxpayer any money and the costs just keep mounting.
The ISS is the only world orbiting laboratory dedicated to human space
travel and it is just reaching the peak of scientific utility. The case
for ending direct funding for the ISS is to dedicate more resources to
deep space exploration. This should not be an “either-or” proposition
and we can have both. After the shuttle’s all landed for good it began
to look like America’s time in space was on its way down. The ISS has
become a shining example of what we can do in space and allowed for
cutting edge research never before dreamt of. Following through with
this policy directive will hurt the American space program when it is
finally on the rise. (5/23)
How America Will Launch
More Rockets, And Faster (Source: Bloomberg)
In the 1960s, a rocket launch was big news all over the world. Sixty
years later, it’s still a big deal. Sure, SpaceX has leaped forward
with reusable vehicles, but the ability to make space travel a
reliable, everyday event is still a way off.
The U.S. government and some private companies want to change that. The
Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is putting
up $10 million to encourage launch firms to get faster and nimbler
about traveling to space. The goal of the Rapid Launch Challenge is to
hurl a small satellite into orbit with only a day’s notice—or less—from
virtually anywhere in the country. (5/23)
New Network is Installed
to Investigate Space Weather Over South America (Source:
EurekAlart)
A group of Brazilian researchers affiliated with the National Space
Research Institute (INPE) is working to install a network comprised of
magnetometers (instruments used to measure the intensity of a magnetic
field) across South America.
Known for its acronym Embrace MagNet (Embrace Magnetometer Network for
South America), the project involves joint efforts from other Latin
American institutions with the aim of studying the specific
characteristics of magnetic field disturbances over the continent and
comparing their intensities with those occurring elsewhere in the
world. The possible damage done by space weather to electronic
appliances is also a primary subject. (5/23)
The Nuclear Battle
Between the Earth and Sun (Source: Space.com)
Deep in the sun's core, buried under hundreds of thousands of miles of
twisting and convecting hydrogen and helium, a nuclear fire rages. At a
temperature of over 15 million kelvins (27 million degrees Fahrenheit),
the infernal pressures are high enough to squeeze together hydrogen
nuclei, forging elemental helium and releasing a tiny bit of energy.
Reaction after countless reaction, this energy accumulates and, in the
form of photons, makes its way to the turbulent surface.
Once free, the photons race through empty space, bathing the solar
system in radiance and heat. But they are not alone. The pent-up
energies in the heart of the sun drive the surface into a boiling
frenzy, and this kinetic turmoil unleashes floods of particles — the
hydrogen and helium constituents of the sun's coronal atmosphere itself
— that accelerate outward into space. (5/23)
The First Three Missions
of NASA’s Next Big Rocket Will Have to Settle For a Less-Powerful Ride
(Source: The Verge)
The first three missions of NASA’s next-generation rocket, the Space
Launch System, will all fly on the least powerful version of the
vehicle that the space agency plans to build. NASA is moving forward
with its plan to use a downgraded version of the SLS for its second and
third flights, according to a memo from NASA headquarters. The original
plan was to fly those two flights on a much more powerful upgrade of
the rocket, but now, it seems that version won’t debut until 2024 at
the earliest.
The SLS, meant to take humans into deep space, has been under
development for the last decade, with its first three missions mostly
set in stone. However, these three missions weren’t all supposed to fly
on the same version of the SLS. NASA is planning to make two main
variants of the vehicle: Block 1 and Block 1B. Block 1B is designed
with a much more powerful upper stage, allowing it to carry more than
twice that weight. But now NASA is going to fly all three missions on
Block 1.
The memo, signed by Bill Hill, NASA’s deputy associate administrator
for exploration systems development, directs the space agency’s
contractors to start planning for the change. Right now, NASA only has
one mobile launch platform, which can only support flights of the Block
1. The platform would need significant upgrades to support Block 1B,
requiring at least 33 months to complete. Under the original plan, NASA
would first launch the inaugural mission of SLS on a Block 1 and then
cease all flights of the rocket for nearly three years, while it
upgraded the mobile launch platform. Now NASA has funding for a second
platform. (5/22)
FAA Rulemakings Will Pave
Way for New Supersonic Era (Source: AIN Online)
The FAA has launched two rulemakings that the agency said are designed
to pave the way for development of civil supersonic aircraft. The first
involves proposed noise certification for supersonic aircraft and the
second is a clarification of procedures required to obtain special
flight authorization to conduct supersonic flight-testing in the U.S.
Neither rulemaking will rescind the current prohibition of supersonic
flight over land without special FAA authorization, the agency added.
It is working in concert with the International Civil Aviation
Organization Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection on noise
and emissions standards for future supersonic aircraft, as well as
collaborating with other national aviation authorities. (5/21)
Industry Warns of Launch
Vehicle Glut (Source: Space News)
The launch industry is facing a shakeout in the coming years that could
result in the failure of the vast majority of companies developing new
vehicles, industry executives warned at a conference. Panelists in
opening sessions of the Space Tech Expo conference here May 22 said
they expect most of the current launch ventures to go out of business
for one reason or another, primarily due to insufficient demand.
“There are way too many” companies in the launch market, said Greg
Jones, senior vice president of business development and strategy for
Aerojet Rocketdyne. “Eighty or ninety percent won’t make it to the end.
Maybe there’s room for a dozen launch vehicles worldwide or something
on that level.”
That surge of development is concentrated at the small end of the
vehicle spectrum, with dozens of vehicles in various stages of design
or testing. “It reflects the excitement going on in the small satellite
market,” said Stephen Eisele, Vice President of Virgin Orbit, which is
developing the LauncherOne small launch vehicle. (5/22)
SpaceX Launches Five
Iridium Satellites and Twin Science Spacecraft (Source:
Space News)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 still sporting soot from its last mission
successfully launched May 22 with five Iridium Next satellites and two
science satellites for NASA and the German Research Center for
Geosciences. The rocket, reusing a first stage booster that
successfully launched Northrop Grumman’s failed Zuma mission in
January, took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On (GRACE-FO)
satellites separated from the rocket’s upper stage approximately 11
minutes later. Iridium’s five spacecraft separated one by one around 65
minutes into the mission. SpaceX did not attempt to recover the Falcon
9’s first stage. The rocket was a Block 4 version, designed for two to
three reflights of the same first stage.
The company did try to recover the payload fairings, used to protect
the satellites as the rocket exited the atmosphere, but was
unsuccessful. The fairings landing in the Pacific Ocean after deploying
parachutes to slow their descent. SpaceX’s launch narrator said a
recovery vessel named Mr. Steven “came very close” to catching them
using a giant upward facing net. Mr. Steven is so far 0 for 3 trying to
catch the fairings. (5/22)
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