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"Jensen described an iterative process of flight and ground tests. “That will wind up determining how many missions we need,” she said.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson then stepped in. “The question was, how many fuel transfers?”

“I will say it will roughly be ten-ish,” Jensen responded. “It could be lower, depending on how well the first flight tests go, or it could be a little bit higher.”"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DoD US Department of Defense
EUS Exploration Upper Stage
HLS Human Landing System (Artemis)
SLS Space Launch System heavy-lift
Jargon Definition
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Can't wait to see another flight! Iterative progress needs to keep marching.