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Slate Auto will retrofit an existing 1.4 million square foot factory in Warsaw, Indiana.

FWIW, part of what this article leaves off are additional capabilities getting covered in these costs, like new launch pads, vertical integration facilities, and disposable launches.

Somehow one of our best hopes for SpaceX's semi monopolistic practices to get upset is... a billionaire subsidized competitor in Blue Origin or Terran using anticompetitive pricing below cost to sneak in and steal market share. Cool. Hopefully Stoke and Rocket Lab win instead.

Go Tiangong, the space station nobody knows about. I wish real astronauts got more coverage than the Bezos publicity stunt.

Yeah, I love this. Between the Slate with a bed cover, R2/R3, and Telo, there are some cool outdoorsy oriented EVs coming in the next few years that I'm looking forward to.

A Walmart charging network sounds great for road tripping. You can stop in, grab some snacks and go to the bathroom, and sometimes there are restaurants inside or in the parking lot.

It's still, and always will be, fuck Walmart. I wish more truck stops and travel centers would ramp up with EV chargers.

Artemis is in an interesting place right now. It's a bit of a mess. But it has a lot of cool and interesting parts.

Artemis 2 might launch in 2026 with 4 astronauts for a loop around the moon. Artemis 3 might launch this decade for a lunar landing with 2 astronauts aboard a SpaceX Starship lander. A lot needs to happen for that to work, like massive progress on the Starship program and Axiom space suits, and continued progress on Lockheed's Orion capsule.

Artemis 2 and 3 aren't givens anymore in the DOGE era, but they might still happen. A4+ rely on a new SLS stage from Boeing (EUS) and a new launch tower from Bechtel that are both running way over cost. Also in the mix is Lunar Gateway, a space station around the moon that isn't really needed to get to the surface, but includes some different parts from international partners. So, who knows. We'll see what happens.

Ouch

I don't like the looks, but 8.3" of ground clearance for a Subaru EV is cool. What's the range, though?

Now, the bigass overpriced truck on the other hand...

Huh, I guess those still exist

Between Giannis's hyperextended knee in their championship run, Brook's back surgery, and this, the Bucks have actual sorcerers on their medical team.

Is ship reuse on the critical path? I wonder how cheap and light a barebones disposable Starship could be...

You know what, I really dislike a lot of people sometimes, thanks

Subaru will lose the PNW to the R2 and R3 if they don't get moving on these soon

There's so much more to the private sector than tourism rockets! Consider:

• Cheap components that don't work
• Cheap satellites that don't work
• Cheap lunar landers that don't work
• Pump-and-dump get-rich-quick schemes

I've absolutely been following some of the eurospace startups a lot more closely lately. The next time I switch jobs might be the first time I switch continents.

"Let's be very honest again," Bolden said in a 2014 interview. "We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real. You've seen it down at Michoud. We're building the core stage. We have all the engines done, ready to be put on the test stand at Stennis... I don't see any hardware for a Falcon 9 Heavy, except that he's going to take three Falcon 9s and put them together and that becomes the Heavy. It's not that easy in rocketry."

Or it means he can turn it into the Hubble servicing mission he wanted

And there are at least a handful more scheduled:

• Ax-4
• ISS private mission 5
• ISS private mission 6
• Haven-1
• Polaris-2 (?)

Agreed, I was surprised they were going for a booster reuse at this point. I guess it makes sense that they're better at the booster than the shop given Falcon heritage.

Ship catch, tower readiness aside, seems like a hell of a time to permit.