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20 Oct, 4 tweets, 6 min read
Microsoft announces its Azure cloud network will connect to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet — a corporate partnership that competes directly with the offerings of Jeff Bezos' Amazon (with AWS & Kuiper satellites) and Blue Origin.

More: cnbc.com/2020/10/20/mic… Image
@Microsoft @Azure @SpaceX @elonmusk @SpaceXStarlink SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell: “The collaboration [will] deliver connectivity through Starlink for use on Azure. Where it makes sense, we will work with [Microsoft]: co-selling to our mutual customers, co-selling to new enterprise and future customers."
cnbc.com/2020/10/20/mic…
@Microsoft @Azure @SpaceX @elonmusk @SpaceXStarlink Microsoft launches its Azure Space unit, building upon its Azure Orbital ground station service.

The company's Azure Modular Datacenters will connect to Starlink and @SES_Satellites O3b network, for remote cloud connectivity.
cnbc.com/2020/10/20/mic… ImageImage
@Microsoft @Azure @SpaceX @elonmusk @SpaceXStarlink @SES_Satellites Keane and Shotwell discussing the Microsoft and SpaceX partnership:

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22 Oct
Morgan Stanley doubled its long-term valuation for SpaceX to $101 billion:

"SpaceX continues to solidify its place as 'mission control' for the emerging space economy" with Starlink and Starship.

Here's how the firm values Elon Musk's company: cnbc.com/2020/10/22/mor…
Morgan Stanley's base case SpaceX valuation:

– Rockets: $11.7 billion
– Starlink: $80.9 billion
– Point-to-point travel: $8.7 billion
cnbc.com/2020/10/22/mor…
While the company is currently launching rockets at a rate of about one every two and half weeks, Morgan Stanley’s base case assumes “SpaceX achieves a launch cadence of 1 launch per day by 2040.”
cnbc.com/2020/10/22/mor…
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22 Oct
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, speaking from the company's HQ at the #TIME100Talks, says she believes in the next 10 years "people will be able to travel into space who are not billionaires" and that "people will be able to travel to Mars." ImageImageImage
@SpaceX @elonmusk Shotwell told @patbits: "I remember when I was interviewing with Elon in 2002 and he had such a ambitious goal, it sounded absolutely insane at the time. And now almost 20 years later, it doesn't actually sound that insane - at least not to the insiders, maybe to the public."
@SpaceX @elonmusk @patbits Shotwell: "We are not giving up on Earth, when we talk about building capability to move humanity to other planet ... it's actually just giving humanity another shot in case there would be some horrible event on Earth ... a second planet to live."
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22 Oct
Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than Dec. 22 for the maiden launch of its Alpha rocket, CEO Tom Markusic tells me – and he's feeling confident:

"I think it's very reasonable for us to expect complete success on the first launch." cnbc.com/2020/10/21/fir…
Only a handful of tests remain until Alpha’s first launch. Firefly conducted a final engine test with the rocket’s first stage two weeks ago, with a second stage engine test up next.
cnbc.com/2020/10/21/fir…
Then Firefly will conduct the activation of SLC-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, essentially confirming that the ground systems are ready to go. Here's the TEL (Transporter Erector Launcher) up for the first time this week: cnbc.com/2020/10/21/fir… Image
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31 Aug
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is speaking at the virtual #HumansToMars conference (he's dialing in from Germany).

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@ExploreMars @SpaceX @elonmusk Musk: "Given enough time SpaceX will get to Mars," but it's not just about getting there, it's about when and how.

"We've got to build upon a Mars base and then we've got to build a city and get to the point where it's self-sustaining."
@ExploreMars @SpaceX @elonmusk Musk, on sending people to Mars: "I want to emphasize that this is a very hard and dangerous difficult thing, not for the faint of heart .. It's gonna be tough going and be pretty glorious if it works out."
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2 Aug
Thread: NASA and SpaceX are hosting a Demo-2 press conference, with Administrator Jim Bridenstine, President Gwynne Shotwell, Commercial Crew program manager Steve Stich, ISS program manager Joel Montalbano and the astronauts of Crew-1.

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@Commercial_Crew @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug @SpaceX @elonmusk @JimBridenstine @VicGlover @Astro_illini Bridenstine: "Today we really made history. We are entering a new era of human spaceflight."

"We also need to remember that this is just the beginning."
@Commercial_Crew @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug @SpaceX @elonmusk @JimBridenstine @VicGlover @Astro_illini Bridenstine: "Congratulations to SpaceX and Elon Musk, congratulations to Gwynne Shotwell, and certainly congratulations to the entire NASA team, which has worked so diligently on this for so many years."
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2 Aug
A private boat with a Trump flag passed by SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour as recovery teams attempt to secure the spacecraft, in what appears to be a serious violation of the splashdown zone's safety area.
It also looks like quite a few boats followed the SpaceX recovery ship out to the splashdown zone, given the number of onlookers circled.
UPDATE from NASA chief Bridenstine:
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