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Earth to Orbit Vehicles
Daily news covering the next great transportation revolution.
🚀 Launches • Spacecraft • Technology • People

[Etov @theetov]

Welcome to ETOV.

Earth to Orbit Vehicles.

We cover the rockets, spacecraft, people, and breakthroughs changing how humanity reaches space.

The next great transportation revolution has already begun.

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[Etov @theetov]

@elonmusk I’ve had that in my life.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The greatest privilege of my life is being able to work with incredible people to create amazing products

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink now has 11k satellites in orbit

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@SpaceX Thanks for sharing and bringing us all along for the journey.

[Etov @theetov]

@Doroniaero Soon we all will fly Earth To Orbit Vehicles

[Doroni Aerospace @Doroniaero]

Personal aviation is here. At Doroni, we’re redefining personal aircraft ownership with the H1-X, engineered for safety and performance. Drive your investment into a $1T air mobility market.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It will be much bigger

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

We're getting very close to Starship Flight 14 and this is going to be something very special

For the first time, SpaceX plans to catch Starship itself with Mechazilla chopsticks

Super Heavy has already been successfully caught 3 times

Now it's Starship's turn... Flight 13 ended with such a precise soft landing that Elon said Starship would have been caught by the tower arms if SpaceX had attempted it

And this comes right as Starlink V3 moves from testing toward operational deployment

Flight 13 already proved the architecture by successfully deploying 20 Starlink V3 satellites

V3 is an absolute monster:
• ~1 Tbps downlink capacity PER satellite
• ~10X the downlink capacity of V2
• Up to 60 V3 satellites on a single Starship
• ~60 Tbps of new capacity from ONE launch
• 20X+ more Starlink downlink capacity deployed per launch vs Falcon 9

SpaceX spent the previous flights proving the pieces needed to get here: Raptor 3, the heat shield, reentry, in-space engine relight, payload deployment and precise landing

Flight 14 brings it all together
• Attempt to catch Starship
• Deploy V3 into orbit
• Move Starship from an experimental vehicle toward a fully and rapidly reusable transportation system

This is where Starship starts becoming the fully reusable transportation system SpaceX designed it to be

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Eight advanced satellite platforms built by Rocket Lab for MDA Space are now in orbit 🛰️🎉

These 500kg Lightning spacecraft buses are incorporated into @MDA_space satellites for @Globalstar.

Read more: https://t.co/xV9EDx6eCe

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

$RKLB is expanding deeper into national security space as Viasat selects it to build an anti-jam satellite for the U.S. Space Force.

The program pairs Rocket Lab’s Lightning-GEO spacecraft with Viasat’s protected payload to keep U.S. forces connected in contested environments.

Peter Beck says the award reflects Rocket Lab’s “growing role in national security space” as the program moves from design into production.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceX just achieved its 650th Falcon booster landing.

Absolutely incredible. No other company comes close to this level of rocket reusability.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceX just set a new record by launching two Falcon 9 rockets only 38.5 minutes apart.

SpaceX is operating on another level. 🔥🚀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Moonbase Alpha will be so cool.

And we want to make it so that anyone can go to the Moon if they want.

[SpacBobby @SpacBobby]

$RKLB - Cantor Fitzgerald raises the price target on Rocket Lab to $122 from $96. Maintains overweight rating.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Terafab approximate size comparison between Giga Texas, the Pentagon, Apple Park, and the Mall of America.

There has never been a building this large. Elon Musk says it will be the most valuable building by far.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Rocket Lab has been awarded a $397M contract by the @USSpaceForce to build multiple advanced Flatellite spacecraft for the SB-AMTI program, and launch them on Neutron.

We're proud to enhance global security by deploying a resilient space-based system to detect and track airborne threats in real time.

Full details: https://t.co/Al8daqE5KK

[Etov @theetov]

@Rory_Breaker_ You put the lives of your children at risk if you don’t teach them the difference between flammable and combustible.

[Etov @theetov]

@onlyskypace 6 x 4 =24 by half is 12 squares

[Etov @theetov]

SPY RIDE 🚀

SpaceX sends another classified payload to orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Another Falcon 9 up. Another booster home.

Earth-to-orbit transportation doesn't stop because the passenger list is secret.

#ETOV #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Space

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