Weekly Recap #54 - Harnessing the Sun

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Launch

* SpaceX’s Starship 14 deployed the first 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites to orbit. [source]

* SpaceX’s Transporter 18 successfully deployed 130 payloads to orbit on the first stage booster’s 25th launch, including: [source]

* Starcatcher’s first space-to-space power beaming satellite Protostar [source]

* Cowboy Space’s space-to-earth power beaming satellite Reason-1 [source]

* TWO Varda in-space manufacturing satellites [source]

* Google’s first on-orbit TPU aboard Planet’s satellite [source]

* Starfish’s first Otter RPO satellite [source]

* Cesium Astro’s first Element-1 communication satellite [source]

* Meridian Space’s first reflectenna customer link [source]

* Deep Blue Aerospace raised $300M to further develop their Nebula-1 and Nebula-2 rockets. [source]