Taking stock
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year’s Artemis III launch.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs into the sky over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Thursday morning with a batch of Starlink Internet satellites.
SpaceX
Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report! The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday’s explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn on its launch pad in Florida. Blue Origin aims to resume launches at the badly damaged launch facility by the end of the year, but there’s good reason to be skeptical of this timeline. With New Glenn grounded, will Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos approach Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch his Blue Moon lander to the lunar south pole? It sure sounds like NASA is pushing for that.
