No biggie, just another cost increase.
Meanwhile, in non-NASA news, we may be about to launch five American rockets in two days.
[Update Saturday morning]
Things are happening in Boca Chica (among other places):
[Update a few minutes later]
Apparently the DIVH abort will delay the SpaceX attempt at dual launches.
Navy ranks for space has long been a topic at SF conventions. Now it’s becoming real.
I think that even I would get pretty bored after only a thousand or so.
95th successful flight, 58th successful landing, catching both fairing halves, and for the first time, a sixth reuse of a booster.
Confronting our potentially stark choices.
I don’t know if human expansion off planet is economically feasible, but I sure hope so.
A private one. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I hope they have a good camera to see if it’s beautiful clouds, or just gray.
I got an email from Jon Goff about this yesterday, but didn’t want to post until there was a public announcement.
This is a huge loss to the industry. He had a great deal of vision, that was squandered by the child abuse of ULA’s parent companies. Not sure he’s replaceable. My deepest condolences to all his friends and family.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, that was fast. This post is already number two on a DuckDuckGo search for “Bernard Kutter.” Funny thing is that Google has nothing on the death.
[Update a while later]
A tribute from the National Space Society.
It’s geologically active, and may have an underground ocean.
Ceres is underrated. It should be considered a planet.
Apparently he thinks he’s competing with Falcon 9/Dragon, because there is no mention of Starship.
Morgan Stanley thinks that investors should be more interested in it than they are.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, didn’t realize that article was two years old.