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26 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
JUST IN – Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin filed a GAO protest against NASA today, challenging the recent award of a nearly $3 billion contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX to build a crewed lunar lander under NASA's HLS program for Artemis missions: cnbc.com/2021/04/26/jef…
Blue Origin statement: "NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the Human Landing System program and moved the goalposts at the last minute."

cnbc.com/2021/04/26/jef…
Blue Origin's protest is based on 5 objections:

a-No opportunity to compete
b-Flawed acquisition
c-Unreasonable NASA evaluation
d-Improperly evaluated SpaceX proposal
e-Changed weight in evaluation factors
cnbc.com/2021/04/26/jef…
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27 Apr
News – The FCC approves SpaceX's third modification to its Starlink license, despite objections from companies including Amazon and Viasat, in a win for Elon Musk's growing satellite internet network: cnbc.com/2021/04/27/fcc…
The FCC found that SpaceX's proposed modification to Starlink "does not create significant interference problems:" docs.fcc.gov/public/attachm…

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@SpaceX @elonmusk @FCC The terms of the FCC's order (highlights mine), include that SpaceX issue a report twice a year that states the number of Starlink "conjunction events" (i.e., near misses with other satellites), as well as how many Starlinks were disposed of/re-entered.
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26 Apr
ULA launches the massive Delta IV Heavy rocket on a crystal clear day in California for the NROL-82 mission, carrying a classified reconnaissance satellite for the NRO:

$BA $LMT @torybruno
@torybruno The Delta IV Heavy side boosters separate cleanly
@torybruno The Delta IV Heavy's central booster separates, with all three falling back to Earth and not reusable.
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26 Apr
Thread – The Crew-1 astronauts are speaking from the International Space Station to reporters, ahead of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience return to Earth, with splashdown targeting Wednesday at 12:40pm EDT (16:40 UTC).

Livestream here:
@Space_Station @NASA_Johnson @AstroVicGlover @Astro_illini Hopkins, on advice for re-entry from Demo-2 astronauts Bob and Doug:

"All of us have been focusing over the last few days, preparing for that landing and just going over our procedures and making sure when we get into that sequence of events."
@Space_Station @NASA_Johnson @AstroVicGlover @Astro_illini Hopkins, on the @inspiration4x mission flying in Resilience later this year: "It's very exciting ... it's a good thing for human spaceflight to see more and more people getting up into orbit around Earth. It's just an amazing experience."
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8 Apr
Rocket Lab's next launch, its 20th to date and scheduled for May, will feature the second Electron splashdown recovery with a "beefed up" heat shield:

"This is really the next step in the iteration to make Electron reusable," @Peter_J_Beck told me. cnbc.com/2021/04/08/roc…
Beck said this is the second of three planned splashdown recoveries, with the company having "severely disassembled" the first Electron booster it recovered, which overall "was in remarkable shape." cnbc.com/2021/04/08/roc…
After three splashdown recoveries, Rocket Lab will then move to the final step of its reuse plan: Plucking the booster with its parachute from the sky with a helicopter. cnbc.com/2021/04/08/roc… $VACQ
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7 Apr
SpaceX is preparing to launch its 23rd dedicated Starlink v1.0 mission, carrying another 60 satellites.

Liftoff is scheduled for 12:34 pm ET (16:34 UTC), watch live here:
This represents SpaceX's 26th Starlink mission overall, if you include the launch of two "Tintin" prototypes, the (now largely deorbited, per @planet4589) batch of v0.9 satellites, and the 10 polar satellites included on the Transporter-1 mission.
@planet4589 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on a sunny day in Florida:
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7 Apr
Real estate entrepreneur Larry Connor is headed to space next year – but first, he will dive to the bottom of the ocean.

He aims to be the 1st to do both within a year, and just the 3rd in history after astronauts @AstroKDS & @RichardGarriott. cnbc.com/2021/04/07/rea…
EYOS Expeditions reached out to Connor shortly after his spaceflight plans were announced, asking if he would help cover part of the costs of an upcoming dive in the Triton Submarines' DSV Limiting Factor – and in return, join as a co-pilot.
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@EYOSExpeditions @tritonsubs @LuxuryTCG Next Monday he will travel to Guam, with the first dive to Challenger Deep on either Wednesday or Thursday.

A few days later Connor will dive again, to the Sirena Deep – “where there’s only ever been two humans there before."
cnbc.com/2021/04/07/rea…
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