Musk: ""You can think of Starlink as filling in the gaps between 5G and fiber, and really getting to the parts of the world that are the hardest to reach."
Musk: "Starting in August we should have global connectivity for everywhere except the [North and South] poles."
"We are on our way to having a few hundred thousands users, possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months."
Asked about NASA's HLS program, Admin. Nelson says "competition is good, it brings the best cost and the most efficient route" but NASA only got $850M of its $3.4B request last year.
@NorthwesternU Shotwell: "I think highly dynamic social, political and economic situations are the new normal, and you are now better prepared to succeed in them. You have lived it, and not just survived but succeeded."
@NorthwesternU Shotwell: "As a teenage girl in the late 70s ... I was terrified of being tagged as a nerd. Now I'm super proud to be one."
NASA and SpaceX push back the launch of the Crew-3 mission from Oct. 23 to no earlier than Oct. 31, and the return of Crew-2 from Oct. 31 to "early-to-mid November."
Photo: Aubrey Gemignani / NASA
Crew-3 will launch NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer.
NASA notes that the next crew launch after Crew-3 is targeting mid-April 2022, "with the partner spacecraft and launch vehicle to be determined at a later date."
.@SpaceForceDoD is hosting a media roundtable about the upcoming GPS III SV05 satellite launch scheduled for Thursday, with representatives from the Space and Missiles Systems Center, Space Launch Delta 45, Lockheed Martin and SpaceX.
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@SpaceForceDoD Space Force’s Dr. Walter Lauderdale notes that, while SpaceX landed Falcon 9 boosters after two prior National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions, this will be the first to launch with a previously flown (i.e., reused) rocket booster.
@SpaceForceDoD Dr. Lauderdale: "We've worked closely with SpaceX to understand the refurbishment processes and are confident that this rocket is ready for its next flight."