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The language is vague, but it sounds like they’re talking about the entire window that runs until July 6. Must be a really pesky issue if they don’t think they can get it solved within a week.

Yowza. They’ll need to get an additional $800 million approved by Congress, and the launch is now set for about a year from the estimated retirement date of Ariane 5.

“The partnership combines the lower resolution but daily global coverage of Planet’s cubesat constellation with Airbus’ fleet of high-resolution satellites that have more limited coverage.”

About two months ago, we heard that Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin would be receiving sole-source contracts for the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program. I believe this is the first official contract award we’ve seen posted.

The HYDROS-C propulsion unit is tiny—just 1U in size. NASA also has a nice video up showing PTD-1 in action.

I don’t remember RL10 being part of the previously-awarded EELV propulsion contracts. Wonder if that’s related to the recent announcements that both Vulcan and OmegA will use the RL10 as their upper stage.

AFSPC-52 is well within the performance of an expended Falcon 9, so this is exactly one of those scenarios predicted for Falcon Heavy’s use: flying a recoverable Falcon Heavy instead of an expended Falcon 9.

Just in time for opposition, when we take out our telescopes and try to get a glimpse of some surface detail. Hoping it clears up for us —and Opportunity—by mid-July.

That means the relay satellite is doing well at Earth-Moon L2. I’m really excited to watch this mission get up there.

Incredible video (with accelerometer data turned into sound) that really gives you a sense for just how far Opportunity has traveled.