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19 Jul, 2 tweets, 1 min read
Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark just stopped by the Blue Origin press site to deliver dinner to the broadcast crews setting up:
This is his grandmother’s recipe:

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Michael Sheetz Profile picture
18 Jul
Blue Origin is hosting a briefing from its facility in Texas:

—CEO Bob Smith
—Flight director Steve Lanius
—VP of New Shepard operations Audrey Powers
—New Shepard chief engineer Chris Jaeger
—Director of astronaut sales Ariane Cornell

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Lanius: Weather forecast shows "a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms in the early morning hours" but should "clear in time" for the launch window "with light winds expected."

"The upper level wind forecast is favorable for launch."
Powers highlights Blue Origin's work with the FAA throughout the New Shepard development program:

"We've collaborated with them very closely ... the whole commercial space team at the FAA has been with us through every step of this program."
Read 11 tweets
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7 Jul
I'm taking a walk through Planet's investor presentation (planet.com/investors/pres…), so here is a thread on some notable details:

Story: cnbc.com/2021/07/07/spa…
@planet @Will4Planet @schingler @kevinweil @ro_saccone @bhernacki @NiccoloDeMasi @dfjgrowth @SpaceCapital @Lux_Capital Planet has more than 600 customers across a variety of sectors, with this slide giving a look at a number of those names – from Bayer to NASA to Google and more:
@planet @Will4Planet @schingler @kevinweil @ro_saccone @bhernacki @NiccoloDeMasi @dfjgrowth @SpaceCapital @Lux_Capital Planet's revenue – rising from $43m to $113m, a 27% compound annual growth rate, over the past five years – largely comes from recurring subscription deals that are more than a year in length.
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6 Jul
There's another space stock coming: $SATL

Earth imagery specialist @Satellogic, with investors including Tencent and SoftBank, is merging with Cantor Fitzgerald SPAC $CFV at a $1.1 billion valuation to list on the Nasdaq in early Q4.
cnbc.com/2021/07/06/spa…
@Satellogic Here is how Satellogic compares itself to competitors like BlackSky $SFTW, Planet, Maxar $MAXR and more: cnbc.com/2021/07/06/spa…

Link to Satellogic's investor deck: satellogic.com/wp-content/the…
@Satellogic I also asked Satellogic CEO Emiliano Kargieman @earlkman, given the company's work in Beijing, about if he's worried about state ownership of corporations:

"In China we're selling to commercial players in the market ... so we don't see any concerns." cnbc.com/2021/07/06/spa…
Read 4 tweets
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29 Jun
SpaceX is about to launch its Transporter-2 mission, carrying 88 spacecraft for organizations including @SpaceflightInc, @NASA, @iceyefi, @LoftOrbital, @hawkeye360, @capellaspace, @SwarmInternet, @SpireGlobal, @DARPA and more.

Livestream:
@SpaceflightInc @NASA @iceyefi @LoftOrbital @hawkeye360 @capellaspace @SwarmInternet @SpireGlobal @DARPA Transporter-2 represents SpaceX's:

–20th launch of 2021
–8th launch for this Falcon 9 rocket
–1st landing attempt on land this year (rather than a droneship)
@SpaceflightInc @NASA @iceyefi @LoftOrbital @hawkeye360 @capellaspace @SwarmInternet @SpireGlobal @DARPA The deployment process is scheduled to begin at T+00:57:50 after liftoff and end with three Starlink satellites deploying at T+01:27:35
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29 Jun
Elon Musk is speaking virtually at #MWC21 as SpaceX CEO. Livestream: mobileworldlive.com

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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."
Read 11 tweets
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16 Jun
A Congressional hearing on the FAA's role in spaceflight has begun. Livestream:

Witnesses:
@FAANews Wayne Monteith
@USGAO Heather Krause
@ulalaunch @torybruno
@SpaceFlorida Frank DiBello
@ALPAPilots Joe DePete
@virgingalactic Mike Moses

Thread:
@FAANews @USGAO @ulalaunch @torybruno @SpaceFlorida @ALPAPilots @virgingalactic .@RepGarretGraves opens by noting that in 2011, the FAA's spaceflight office (AST) licensed "only one single commercial space launch" but "now routinely licenses a launch a week or more," with only a marginal increase in staffing.
@FAANews @USGAO @ulalaunch @torybruno @SpaceFlorida @ALPAPilots @virgingalactic @RepGarretGraves .@RepPeterDeFazio in opening remarks says he is "not in favor of telling people in America" traveling via commercial air that a flight was delayed "because some millionaire or billionaire is going to experience 15 minutes of weightlessness."
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