Main Engine Cut Off

We’re without some important pieces of information about the SpaceX layoff—mainly which departments and projects were impacted the most—but I’m not sure there are many people out there surprised by the decision. Their focus is shifting away from Falcon 9 and Heavy development and production and into flight operations at the same time that Starlink and Starship work pick up, so that inherently means shifting of personnel.

The layoffs at Tethers Unlimited are a major, major bummer. They’ve always been an interesting company with interesting projects and their small team is losing great people. Alan Boyle has a good write up on what happened over there.

Rough end to last week for space.