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Paywalled article, but the viewable introduction says it all.

We first heard about SpaceX taking over the old SpaceHab buildings back in August, so I guess the building will suit their needs. SpaceX will be building out quite a bit of real estate on the Cape, as documented in their recent LZ-1 expansion plans.

Jeff Bezos’ most recent email update on Blue Origin was all about the BE-4 and its hydrostatic bearings. Interestingly, George Sowers, VP of Advanced Concepts & Technologies at ULA, commented on their use of hydrostatic bearings on Twitter.

We started seeing some great photos of SpaceX’s new piece of infrastructure on the ASDS: Optimus Prime. Scott Murray also posted some over-exposed-but-lovely shots of Optimus Prime on the ASDS, complete with shots of its garage.

I love me a unique launch delay.

An unexplained move to a CCTV-less cell: highly suspicious, or highly opportunistic.

More a trespassing/sightseeing adventure than a tour, but interesting nonetheless.

I’m not surprised to see rising prices—after all, you don’t have to outrun the bear, just the ones you’re running alongside.

Certainly sounds like NASA’s plans have changed since their EM-2 payload RFI went out back in October.

A few days after I linked to Altius’ SBIR Phase II win, this post on Altius’ blog went up. It’s a fantastic read, and really worth your time.

Docking standards are convoluted.

This is the true coming-of-age moment for ULA. Fight for independence and a surely-more-exciting future, or take the “safe” government job like your parents think you should. Look, they already got you in the door because of their friends that work there. You’re practically a shoo-in.

Explorer is something that seems so simple and obvious in hindsight, but only became possible once a few things came together in the right way: the rise of small satellites, the increase of launch availability, and easy distribution on the web, to name a few.

Great rundown of Starliner progress, complete with some talk about RD-180 certification.

Going once for a wonderful set of lawsuit-laden intellectual property! Going twice!

Jake of the WeMartians podcast explores the three remaining candidate landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover. It’s really worth a listen, whether you know about the sites already or not.

NASA announced the selection of 133 proposals for Phase II of the SBIR program. One of the more exciting proposals selected is from Altius Space Machines, titled “Lightweight, High-Flow, Low Connection-Force, In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Coupling”.

It’s a shame that SpaceX is getting so distracted by all their other projects.

An engine on its way to the test stand, 2 customers signed on for 6 launches, a factory well underway in Florida—things are progressing well for New Glenn.