Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
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A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Relativity CEO Eric Schmidt speak to employees about a new Mars mission. Credit: Relativity Space
Welcome to Edition 8.46 of the Rocket Report! We don’t mention Starship in the body of this week’s report, so I’ll give a brief update here. The next test flight of SpaceX’s mega-rocket—Flight 13—could happen as soon as next month, according to Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer, in a recent interview with CNBC. There’s still a fair bit of work to go before Flight 13, so don’t count on a launch next month just yet. What we do know, based on Shotwell’s comments to CNBC, is the next Starship test flight will look a like like the previous one last month, with a suborbital flight path...
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