SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups
The Starfall program may accelerate development of technologies for returning payloads from space.
Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally.When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did not […] The post SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups appeared first on SpaceNews.
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