SpaceX Answers NASA, New Glenn Fires Again, HTV-X Arrives 🚀 | This Week in Spaceflight

🎃 Happy Halloween from NSF! The only day “orbital decay” sounds festive.

SpaceX has published a detailed update on its Starship Human Landing System just days after NASA’s acting Administrator asked both SpaceX and Blue Origin to accelerate their Artemis III landers — and SpaceX even clapped back at former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on X.

Meanwhile, Blue Origin rolled out and static fired the full New Glenn stack at LC-36 ahead of its second flight, which will launch NASA’s ESCAPADE mission. Over in Japan, JAXA’s brand-new HTV-X cargo ship has arrived at the ISS right as the Station celebrates 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit. And China has launched Shenzhou-21 to Tiangong.

Also this week: AI sharpens JWST’s vision, China turns on the world’s first mid-infrared solar magnetic telescope, Lockheed/NASA’s X-59 finally flies, and SpaceX breaks another Vandenberg turnaround record.

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🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@alexphysics13), Martijn Luinstra, & Martin Smith.
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💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).

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