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It's honestly been so funny to watch this. I have a couple of friends in the creatives industry who had been replaced and or "augmented" with AI because it was "so much cheaper" and most of them have been hired back within months as these companies start to charge.
The entire pitch for the descoped Artemis III was to de-risk the lunar landers in LEO.
The fact that the primary HLS provider for Artemis IV, SpaceX's Starship HLS, isn't even sending up an actual prototype of its lunar lander is pretty damning if you ask me.
Interesting launch out of Japan coming up this evening! The debut flight of the H3-30 rocket, the first fully liquid fueled orbital rocket Japan has ever flown!
It features a modified H3 core with 3 LE-9 engines instead of 2, allowing it to fly without any addition thrust from SRB-3.
📸JAXA/MHI
