nasa has already voluntarily paused work with spacex for the human landing system through to the start of november while this process plays out this is somewhat ironic given that jeff bezos himself in NUMBER_TOKEN criticized exactly this behavior he was released and then it was awarded to grumman six months later today there would be you know three protests and the win the losers would sue the federal government because they didn't win so yes in an ideal world i'd love to see spacex and another provider such as blue origin or dynamics developing different exciting ways to travel safely and cost effectively to the moon at this point i'm just hoping that spacex gets to continue the development of their hls concept uninterrupted after november and that blue origin in the future focuses on sharing some progress on their vehicle instead of just throwing stones at their competition it is getting very tiresome at this point spacex has already received some of the funding from nasa at the end of july anyway so this should keep them going for a while at least we had an ariane space launch earlier this week as well with the vega launch vehicle lifting off on monday august NUMBER_TOKENth the primary payload for this mission was the airbus manufactured defense and space satellite pleiades neoNUMBER_TOKEN the first of four satellites for this constellation was launched on april the NUMBER_TOKENth so this is the second in that series it is going to provide very useful data for several target markets including mapping location-based services maritime military applications aeronautics forestry management and agriculture and it also has an incredible NUMBER_TOKEN centimeter imaging capability possibly even greater than that this essentially means that one pixel of an image taken represents around NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters or almost NUMBER_TOKEN inches on the surface of the earth also due to the sun synchronous orbit it allows twice a day revisit capability sadly there was only animated graphics of the deployments as seen here just off the coast of western australia as the satellite was released the general coverage of this mission was great though good animations lots of numbers and interesting commentary that is quite an improvement compared to the last esa launch also on board was the french startup unseen labs broNUMBER_TOKEN satellite a maritime surveillance nano satellite and additionally three cubesats for the european space agency hitching a ride to space as well lead sat is an educational project from italy aiming to test tracking technology for low earth orbit satellites radcube from hungary aims to demonstrate radiation instruments for use when monitoring space weather and then finland's sunstorm has a solar x-ray spectrometer to detect material ejected from the surface of the sun the launch vehicle itself is certainly clearly demonstrating its capability to deliver large and small payloads to varying orbital altitudes nice work there ariane space and everyone involved in that mission so there you go that has you all updated thanks very much for making it all the way to the end that makes such a difference to the algorithm the watch time is pretty much the most important metric so thank you if you've enjoyed this i'd be thrilled if you considered subscribing i'm grateful for all of you being here and there is a lot more to learn in the next few weeks especially with our midweek video coming in just a few days also just a quick shout out to casper stanley as of today having
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