#Amazon is under time pressure . The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 . More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

The loss of a solid rocket motor nozzle on the second flight of #ULA’s #Vulcan Centaur last October was caused by a manufacturing defect that has been corrected. The #AirForce had concluded ULA “has performed unsatisfactorily”. That report also said the Air Force was assessing if it was feasible to reassign launches awarded to ULA to an “alternate provider,” which would be #SpaceX. https://spacenews.com/manufacturing-defect-blamed-for-vulcan-solid-rocket-motor-anomaly

ZOMG!! Found the 2 unused Amstrad 40056 ULAs for the Speccy 128 Toastrack! I think I’ll throw one of these in the Just Speccy 128K clone and (hopefully) update the eBay listing as tested/working (it’s missing the ULA at the moment). #golddust #rare #spectrum128 #amstrad #ula #40056 #retrocomputing

@ProPublica There have to be many, many parties who are damaged by #elonmusk 's blatant conflicts of interest.

Is there any sign that #SpaceX 's corporate competitors are attempting to hold them accountable?

#boeing, #ula, #blueorigin and others ... are they not responding to this and the #nasa contract : https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/leaked-filing-shows-musk-still-getting-new-contracts-while-his-team-cancels-other-contracts/ar-AA1yRgzi

Number of employees
• #SpaceX 13,000 https://www.forbes.com/companies/spacex
• #BlueOrigin 11,000 https://www.forbes.com/companies/blue-origin
• #SierraNevada 4,000 https://www.forbes.com/companies/sierra-nevada
• #ULA 2,700 https://www.ulalaunch.com/about

#CapeCanaveral :

• Works on the #Starship launch facility at Pad #39A are proceeding
• #StokeSpace's #Nova is scheduled to fly from #SLC14 as early as next year
• #Relativity’s #SLC16 will support the partially reusable #TerranR
• #ULA is expanding its Spacecraft Processing and Operations Center
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/12/cape-flyover-2