Rob Murphy @RocketRobMurphy

. 🧯GAS PRESSURE🧯 & 🌈 SPECTROSCOPY 🌈 Aww, poor flerfs — spectroscopy proves atmospheres exist. No physical barrier is required to keep gas from escaping into the vacuum of space 😳

NASA and SpaceX just shared the first official, flight-like look inside Cabin 1, the crew cabin for the Starship Human Landing System (HLS). Revealed during the October 23, 2026 Artemis Acceleration briefing, this full-scale internal prototype is officially taking shape inside the Starfactory at Starbase, Texas.

Overly Trev’s Future @OverlyTrev

3 days ago

NASA showing off @SpaceX Cabin 1 for Starship HLS! They also showed off docking hardware as well! Cabin 1 Is being built in Starfactory at Starbase, Texas! WE FINALLY GOT HLS UPDATES!

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SDA posted an RFI for T4 Tracking Layer resilient MWTD payloads and architecture + capabilities to detect and track more challenging targets across full flight trajectories. Input due by Noon ET on Dec 4, 2026. bit.ly/3TKSaPW #SemperCitius #Space #USSF #Industry

With all the talks around SpaceX’s and Blue’s landers for the Artemis program occurring, I decided to make a comparison of the three vehicles. While SpaceX’s Starship aims to do HLS, HLD, and CLPS missions all with the same system, Blue’s Blue Moon lander is split into two separate landers, MK1 and MK2.

SpaceX is reshaping how I view the Space sector and its opportunities. It sits at the intersection of Space and AI, and I don’t see many companies in either sector with comparable growth potential, even at a $2T valuation. What’s remarkable is that even at a that market cap, its moat keeps getting stronger and its lead keeps widening.

We've seen Brandon Carr and the US Government put their thumbs on the scale to accelerate certain enterprises in the interest of the Nation. Are we nearing a point where AST SpaceMobile technology deployment is critical enough to national security and Western interests that the business gets moved to an enterprise that has the manufacturing chops to actually build the constellation at scale? It is a pretty extreme hypothetical. But I have wondered.

A beautiful start to a very exciting mission. Japan’s H3 rocket lifts off with @JAXA_en’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe, bound for Phobos to collect a soil sample and return it to Earth.

Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow

a week ago

Liftoff of JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) at 4:41 am JST (3:41 pm ET / 1941 UTC). Separation of the spacecraft is expected about an hour and 11 minutes after liftoff.

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$ASTS $SPCX: Keith Dyer tests four phones at once on Starlink Mobile with @virginmedia @O2 The photo caption is: Four phones connect to overhead satellite services, loading maps services, connectnig to WhatsApp and sending SMS. All four phones have only 1 bar of signal and are low to mid battery, probably because of the constant need to switch satellites. The article notes that each connection would last around a minute and would reconnect every couple of minutes. The low signal aligns with findings by @Telstra that I posted about previously, linked below in the next post. 🧵 the-mobile-network.com/2026/10/virgin…

$ASTS: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone just signed an LOI to explore a joint MSS spectrum bid. AST SpaceMobile welcomed the move from Europe's four largest mobile operators as it advances service readiness across a market of more than 500 million subscribers.

The H3-24L rocket, carrying the MMX spacecraft, has arrived at the launch pad! 🚀 It can be seen quite clearly from Minamitane Town on Tanegashima 👀 Surrounded by a vivid blue sky and ocean, the MMX mission is just a few hours from liftoff! 💪 #MMXLIFTOFF 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST

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AST SpaceMobile Advances Space-Based Cellular Broadband in Europe in Collaboration with European Mobile Network Operator Partners businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

Manufacturing-as-a-Service 🇺🇸 Hadrian (@HadrianInc) announced a first-of-its-kind, seven-year agreement with Lockheed Martin (@LockheedMartin) to bring its advanced manufacturing capabilities to Lockheed Martin's facility in Grand Prairie, Texas supporting critical missile programs integral to the United States' Arsenal of Freedom, including PAC-3 MSE, THAAD, PrSM, and GMLRS. "The warfighter can't wait on peacetime timelines. Hadrian is bringing the automation, software, and workforce training from our own factories directly into Lockheed Martin, so we can produce more, faster. Rebuilding the Arsenal of Freedom at the scale America needs will take partnerships that combine expertise and speed, and this is what that looks like" - Chris Power (@2112Power), CEO of Hadrian. In December 2025, Hadrian and Lockheed Martin had signed a MoU to integrate Hadrian's manufacturing capabilities, Opus software platform, and national factory network with Lockheed Martin's program and production expertise. Learn more >> tinyurl.com/yk22brt2

This was 1/2 ton landing mass. Now imagine 20 tons, 40 tons, 100 tons or more for the upcoming human-class landers. Entirely different flow regimes will occur in the soil so it isn’t just a linear extrapolation.

The Hawking Center @HawkingCenter

a week ago

A Moon base means landing rockets near hardware already on the surface. Four NASA lander missions awarded for late 2028 will each carry SCALPSS cameras to film engine plumes hitting lunar dust, data for models that predict erosion and ejecta. nasa.gov/news-release/n…

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Is dark matter a physical thing? Three weird galaxies make a strong case: quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-gho…

@ShuttleAlmanac @astro_reid @Astro_Jeremy @Astro_Christina @NASAAdmin Dose, yes. Preclude flying again, no. I could have walked on the moon, but I’d rather help someone else do it. That’s my truth, not speaking for anyone else.

$ASTS Michael Pollack, Executive VP for Government Operations at ASTS, was Keynote speaker at the MILCOM 2026 Classified Programs event at John Hopkins 👀 The panel required security clearance to attend, his specifically required Secret level at least

JAXA's RV-X lifts off, hovers on its engine, moves sideways and touches down on the pad. JAXA just released the official recap of the July test. It's an early step toward a reusable Japanese booster.

“Coming in hot for booster catch.” First catch. Two years ago. Today.

$VOYG: NASA JPL testing readies Voyager Technologies lander for Moon mission nasa.gov/missions/moon-…

Space Investor @SpaceInvestor_D

2 weeks ago

$VOYG: Griffin-1 has completed acceptance testing and is targeting a late 2026 launch to the Moon. It will carry 10 payloads from six countries to the lunar South Pole, including NASA and ESA payloads. Voyager is building toward sustained operations on the Moon.

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Booster 23 was transported to Masseys test site last night ahead of some cryo testing! Do you think we will see B23 be transported to Florida? 📷@NASASpaceflight | 📹nsf.live/starbase