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If I were to guess, late March/early April, around the time Polaris I launches

It's time!

Yup. First uncrewed soyuz since the 80s

Nope, that still doesn't fit by quite a bit - half a meter for New Glenn, and 2+ meters for Vulcan. The only option to make that fit in NG would be to make it not use a fairing (like skylab), which throws away launcher agnosticism, or a large diameter fairing config of it, which would need quite a lot of development time and money currently not allocated - it took 3 years to build the machinery to make NG's fairing, and they still haven't completed their testing 5 years after that assembly line had completed construction. Even if they started now it'd be very hard to have it completed by the late 20s, and the only time a fairing that large was ever built was in the 1970s for Skylab Imo, there's two options if the render is valid: - our calculations are wrong - the only launcher compatibility options Starlab will have are SLS and Starship

Much more than that! I couldn't find any post that showed the calculation, so I did it myself - if we take the port in the middle of your pic as a standard Common Berthing Module, and there's little reason to think it might not be (pic below), that port is going to be 1.8 meters in diameter Starting from that and counting the pixels, this is what I got: Which is almost half a meter wider than both Vulcan and New Glenn, and more than a meter larger than their internal fairing available space Edit: It's possible it's an error in my hand calculation, but I've calculated above how much smaller it'd have to be to fit in the 6.35 meters of NG's internal diameter. Seems too much even accounting for the bad perspective, and the render should be correct; it's Nanoracks' after all

An interesting note: Lockmart's logo has also disappeared from it, and Voyager announced a few months ago a partnership with Airbus on Starlab - does this mean LM is out of the contract?

Yes as far as I know, and the first uncrewed soyuz since before the soviet union stopped existing. Last one I can find was the first launch to MIR, 1986

2 smallsat launchers failures in 2 days

There's definitely going to be one more, as the nose needs tiling over the crane attachment ports, but that should be the last destack and then the last stack

The fairing thing is likely wrong, that's just a night view of earth under the stage - you can see it move together with the background stars in the video. It seems more a case of the second stage underperforming

With B7 on the pad, we should see a full stack today and a full WRD soon. For the first time, B7 has a full shielding that should be the flight-ready configuration

First ever orbital launch from Europe! I'm still astonished that over 75 years after Sputnik it still hasn't happened yet

The full stack WDR should now be the penultimate test before launch, followed by 33 engine SF (if successful)

Interesting - the proposal NASA funded was inflatable, but the one above seems to have ditched that

Correct - these tiny arms next to the main folding mechanism are what pushes it, then gravity does the rest

There's always one lagging behind the others usually, they're only brought down by gravity so it depends from the angle the rocket has when the legs are released. First successful launch/landing of 2022, second stage ignition number 2 is in 45 minutes followed by rideshare sats deployment

That was the static fire a few weeks ago, it's the official angle