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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Children at The Leaven s Dana Drive center in Fairfield watch as a VIP virtual visitor speaks to them, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic) Children at The Leaven ‘travel’ to space with virtual visitors Retired Air Force Gen. Maryanne Miller spoke with the children, encouraging them to pursue their dreams. Retired Air Force Gen. Maryanne Miller is shown in her official Air Force photo. She served as commander of the 349th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base from January 2008 through November 2009 and was the head of Air Mobility Command from September 2018 until she retired in August 2020. ....
As launch market matures, space opportunities on the ground take off The space economy in the last few years has been in large part driven by the increasing cadence and reliability of launch services, and while that market will continue to grow, the new economy enabled by those launches is only just beginning to take off. If you thought the launch boom was big, just wait for when it combines with the private satellite boom. The consensus among experts, company leadership and investors in the space sector is that launch has commanded an outsize share of both money and attention, both because it’s so broadly appealing and because it was a prerequisite to any kind of space-based economy. ....
Three different space launch companies three very different approaches to solving for cost and efficiency Launch startup Astra had a monumental week, achieving their first spaceflight with a rocket test on Tuesday. Astra CEO Chris Kemp joined Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis and VOX Space president Mandy Vaughn at our TC Sessions: Space event on Wednesday, and with Relativity’s huge $500 million round earlier this year, and Virgin Orbit’s milestone test flight in May, it was a big year for all involved. A significant portion of our discussion focused on the very different approaches that each of these launch companies is taking to solving what boils down to the same problem improving cost and availability of launch. Kemp first described Astra’s approach, which boils down to rigorous and continuous process and cost optimization. ....
Virgin Orbit, Relativity Space and Astra dish on the economics and efficiencies of space launches Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis, Astra CEO Chris Kemp and VOX Space (Virgin Orbit’s national-security-focused subsidiary) President Mandy Vaughn all joined us at TC Sessions: Space to jointly discuss their varied approaches to the small spacecraft launch market. Each has a very different type of space launch system, but each is targeting roughly the same group of customers. There are plenty of those customers to go around, they all agree, but they each have very different takes on the best way to serve this growing need in the space industry. Check out the full panel below to learn more about that in detail. ....
Discord raises $100M The popular gaming chat platform confirmed today that it has raised $100 million and also announced that it has 140 million monthly active users, twice as many as a year ago. “We are humbled and honored by the growth we’ve seen among so many incredible and diverse communities that have made Discord their place to hang out,” said CEO Jason Citron in a statement. “As we look to 2021, we are excited about what we have in store and plan to use this funding to help make Discord even better both for our free service and our Nitro subscribers.” ....