Boeing is the prime contractor for SLS. That's why I brought them up.

I'd include the R-7 family (Soyuz, Molniya, Voskhod, etc.), Proton, and Space Shuttle.

That would be a crazy flex if they pulled it off, compared to entire companies focusing on RPO like Astroscale with their current demo mission and True Anomaly with their failed attempted RPO mission.

That being said, I doubt that any Starlink engineering cameras would be good enough to give them better views than the 2nd stage's onboard cameras, and Starlink prop systems don't look like they have enough thrusters or control authority for that kind of thing.

Hopefully they get a longer streak over the next 2 years after finding and fixing whatever caused this and returning to flight.

I would rather have JEM2, but I'll settle for HTV-XL. Actually, now I want both.

It's Arstechnica, that has to be intentional

That really seems like it should be Boeing's job. Prove to NASA why they should use it for high energy probes. Prove the value for heavy GEO sats. Calculate out cost savings from a higher launch rate and bid on contracts based on that.

None of those trades close, but it still shouldn't be NASA's job to say so.

SLS and Orion are really impressive from a political standpoint.

Congress shouldn't design rockets.

Just relight the 2nd stage to go back and get it!

They made the Coke Freestyle machine into its own store?

But it's too easy

in Korea

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