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United Launch Alliance and Astrobotic launches, Countdown Capital shutdown
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All eyes are on United Launch Alliance and Pittsburgh-based startup Astrobotic this week, with the two companies gearing up for inaugural missions with huge stakes. In the letter, which was viewed by TechCrunch, Malik says he concluded the firm would be unlikely to realize excess returns consistently based on capital limitations and swelling competition from large incumbents. Ars Technica’s Stephen Clark dives into the kind of production cadence SpaceX’s Starship program might need to hit to make a Mars settlement a reality:
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