# Blue Origin’s Crew Spacecraft Is Real—And Starlink Goes Cellular | This Week in Spaceflight

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SpaceX is setting the stage for Starlink to become a mobile carrier, combining satellite connectivity with a ground-based network. Meanwhile, Blue Origin confirms work on a crewed spacecraft and prepares for a major increase in New Glenn launches.

On this episode of This Week in Spaceflight, we cover Starlink’s latest spectrum deal and next-generation mobile satellites, Blue Origin’s launch pad repairs and new test facilities, and NASA’s next step toward commercial successors to the International Space Station.

Plus: Blue Moon’s VIPER rover deployment tests, newly released Artemis II lunar science data, ispace’s lunar partnerships, ESA’s rover testing, Themis rocket updates, FAA launch licensing changes, and SPHEREx’s research into brown dwarfs.

Our weekly Space Traffic Report recaps launches from South Korea, China, and SpaceX, then looks ahead to upcoming missions and Hera’s approach to the Didymos asteroid system.

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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal. 🖋️ Written by Martijn Luinstra and Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera. 🎥 Footage from: D Wise, Space Coast Live, Jack Beyer, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Vast, NASA, ispace, ESA, NASA Goddard, GMV, Axiom Space, Voyager Technologies, Altec, ESA/UKSA/MSSL/ABU PanCam and Enfys team, SSC Space, ArianeGroup, NASA/JPL-Caltech, Zafar Rustamkulov/NASA/JPL-Caltech, Zafar Rustamkulov/ International Gemini Observatory/ NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani, KARI, Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co. Ltd., JAXA. ✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton. 💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed). NSF's ISS Imagery Partner: @Sen

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