Greetings and welcome to another edition of TechCrunch Space. We wish everyone a joyful July 4th celebration this week. Why not enjoy a hot dog while you’re at it?
Don’t miss my previous article discussing the reasons behind the additional delay of Starliner and its potential repercussions on Boeing’s Starliner initiative.
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Without question, the highlight of this week is the colossal $843 million deal NASA inked with SpaceX to devise the mechanism for deorbiting the International Space Station. The station will disintegrate as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere, with the deal ensuring this process poses no risk to people below. Very few specifics are currently available about the said U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, although a NASA spokesperson mentioned its design would draw heavily from the “Dragon heritage” lineage.
Explore my recent piece on Starfish Space and its newly inked contract with Intelsat. Though the GEO servicing sector is still on the horizon, deals like these demonstrate its increasingly imminent realization, much to skeptics’ chagrin…
Check out NASA’s feature titled “Fourth of July Holidays in Space” for some delightful reading. Surprisingly, the first July 4 celebration in orbit didn’t occur until 1982, with the next happening a decade later. With NASA astronauts now constantly aboard the ISS, these celebrations have become a yearly affair. And really, what’s more patriotic than stars-and-stripes attire in zero gravity?
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