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It’s official: I’m starting a company called Ripline. (opens the original)
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RaaS: Reentry as a Service is a new offering by SpaceX's Starfall program (opens the original)
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Starbase Brewing, a Texas brewery that produces SpaceX-themed beers such as “Starhopped” and “Occupy März” recently brewed a new beer, one that visited the outer bounds of space. According to Space News, SpaceX recently “flew a payload called the Brewery Archive Space Exposure Demonstrator to test how a variety of yeasts responded to exposure to the space environment during the several-hour mission.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UNq-!,
Hadrian receives a $1.4b series D funding tranche to upgrade American supply chains (opens the original)
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Defense technology startup Hadrian has raised $1.37 billion in a Series D funding round. The new capital values the advanced manufacturing company at $7.87 billion, surging amid a massive push to upgrade U.S. military supply chains.According to an article by CNC, “the new capital values the advanced manufacturing company at $7.87 billion, surging amid a massive push to upgrade U.S. military supply chains.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
Starship to start orbital operations, amongst other tests - a short review of the earnings call (opens the original)
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Reuters reports that SpaceX is soon to launch its next Starship spacecraft, sending a Starlink satellite payload into orbit and then returning the rocket upper stage to land for the first time. “Flight 14 will be our first flight to fly our version three Starlink satellites, our communication satellites, to operational orbit,” Musk stated in the Aug 4 earnings call. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xuZJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
Starlink pushes EchoStar's GSO business into bankruptcy (opens the original)
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SpaceNews reports it first, stating that: “EchoStar’s Hughes geostationary satellite broadband business has filed for bankruptcy in the United States after years of mounting competition from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation”A Quartz article further clarifies that “Hughes’s customer base includes roughly 641,000 residential subscribers in rural areas of North and South America, as well as defense agencies, airlines, and government clients. The company’s broadband subscriber base declined about 21.
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