tests soon as captured in this beautiful footage by mary for nasa spaceflight boosterNUMBER_TOKEN has recently been lifted off the orbital launch mount and onto the booster stand next to it this is likely due to mechazilla installation on the tower spacex needs to make room for chopstick installation and those are more ready for installation than ever before workers have recently applied black paint onto both chopsticks everyone who's ever built something knows that paint comes last with booster NUMBER_TOKEN off the olm and the paint applied to the arms we're in for a treat in the next few days for the first time we'll see mechazilla fully installed on the tower and as a small side note this worker has the slowest job on site he got handed a small paint roller to apply the paint why did they not use a paintbrush this and many more interesting discussions with the community outside the discord can be seen on my twitter and instagram accounts by the way always worth a follow last but not least we have possible tests on starship NUMBER_TOKEN. it's been sitting on orbital pad b for a while now next to booster NUMBER_TOKEN and it very much seems done and ready for some action and since it's not close to the orbital launch mount buzz we could see some testing action very soon act NUMBER_TOKENx space has provided me with a superb overview animation for upcoming test dates for starship NUMBER_TOKEN. we had a road closure yesterday we have one today and we have one tomorrow since they are in the evening only cryogenic tests make sense as static fires are done during the daytime to minimize disturbance for residents keep an eye on lab padres live streams there is no official information but a cryotest with a heat shield would be a first you don't want to miss this nasa technology contracts nasa is speeding up the game once again the whole launch market is changing thanks to private companies like spacex blue origin and rocket lab and nasa wants to participate more and more right now it feels like we're in rocket development wonderland everyone is developing like crazy sometimes even so fast that rockets like blue origin's new glenn or nasa's sls seem outdated even before they had their first launch everyone is trying to come up with something new or in this case copy someone else as fast as possible blue origin project jarvis depicted by trevor mauman for us technica here is the perfect example you don't want to be last in this new world even if it means a blunt copy if you think that this looks like an early starship test tank you're not far off the reason for all this is apparent spacex started the race into our rocket future and others are helping now nasa is pitching in even more money to help advance the technological leap forward for this nasa recently announced that they are giving away a total of NUMBER_TOKEN million dollars to support the further development of future rocket technology four partners are receiving additional funding blue origin will receive NUMBER_TOKEN million for cryogenic fluid management for its new glenn rocket's second stage rocket lab is getting another NUMBER_TOKEN million dollars for upper stage development of its future launch vehicle neutron it is supposed to become a reusable medium lift launch vehicle to launch satellite mega constellations into orbit well deserved and indeed an up and coming project which is supposed to launch out of wallops and in NUMBER_TOKEN ula is one of the funding recipients as well their
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