Edward: Because as a general rule Jay’s quick links come from Twitter, most of them are very lightweight, the kind of things I normally wouldn’t post. Putting them into this one post allows them to appear here, without giving them more importance then they often deserve.

And I am very thankful for Jay’s willingness to pass them on to me.

When you first started these Quick space link posts, I thought that they were lightweight and wouldn’t last long, but they turned out to be often interesting and fun. I suspect that this is because only a few of the best of the many possible links are chosen.

Jay,
Thank you for doing the work of finding these links. Perhaps you glean them from your regular web surfing, but you go to the trouble of passing them on to Robert.

Jeff Wright: You are right of course. Now corrected to Terran-1.

Edward: I took the liberty of editing your comment to change “New Shepard” to “New Glenn”, the correct rocket.

It looks to me as though Starship/Superheavy has left quite a bit of room for other companies to find improvements and compete successfully.

And so, a new spectator sport is born. I am genuinely surprised that no sports book is handling the space launch action. Once gambling-level money gets involved, government objections tend to go away. Government could even profit from action tied to already established state gambling.

Beck has said previously that the biggest hindrance in the process is the red tape, not the rockets. The second thing is the payload being ready. I assume that the payload is good for these.

Vlad needs a win. Now.
It’s a deadline in more ways than one, Roscosmos!