Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong

Welcome to the publication 7.30 The Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for many missions. These include the launch of national security satellites, the placement of astronauts on the moon and global broadband communications. But there are obstacles– technical and more and more political– On the road ahead. To express it generously, Elon Musk, without which much of what SpaceX does, would not be possible, is one of the most controversial figures in American life today.

Now the democrat legislator in the Congress has introduced a bill that will put an end to federal contracts for special civil servants (such as MUSK), citing problems of the conflict of interest. The bill will not go to anything with the Republicans who control the congress, but this is enough to make me pause and think. When the era of Trump passes, and the new administration takes the White House, how will they look at the musk? Will the appetite reduce the dependence of the government on SpaceX? To answer this question, you must first ask if the government will even have a choice. What if, like today in many areas, there is no viable replacement of services offered by SpaceX?

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Blue Origin Flight is focused on lunar studies. According to Geekwire, for the first time, Jeff Bezos Space Venture placed his new Shepard Suborbital Rocket Space Venture for a couple of minutes at the moon level. The innocent mission, known as the NS-29, sent 30 studies on a 10-minute trip from the scene of the Blue Origin One launch in West Texas. For this trip, the crew capsule was deployed to 11 revolutions per minute, unlike a typical half -revolution per minute. The resulting centrifugal force was equivalent to one sixth gravity of the Earth, which is felt on the moon.