Space: Everything is bigger in Texas!
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First off, I want to highlight a few stories we werent able to get to: First, Inversion Space raised a $44 million Series A to continue development of its ultra-precise orbit-to-Earth cargo delivery service. The company has already garnered a lot of attention from the DOD for its tech, which has fairly obvious military applications, so I figured wed be seeing some new funding soon.Second: Hats off to Blue Origin, which flew the New Glenn suborbital vehicle twice in a one-month span. The most recent flight, which took place on Friday, included engineer, science TV host, and former TechCrunch contributing writer Emily Calandrelli!And finally, I hope all my American readers have a great Thanksgiving. Proving out this capability means that SpaceX will soon be able to test flying the upper stage on a full loop around the world and returning it to the launch site, where it can eventually be rapidly refurbished and reused.I had the pleasure of chatting with one of the co-founders of Raven Space Systems, a startup based in the Midwest thats developed a new process to enable the first scalable 3D printing of commercial, off-the-shelf thermoset composite components. These components are widely used across aerospace and defense, including for reentry vehicles and hypersonics.Were essentially unlocking an entire field of 3D printing to production scale, Raven co-founder and CEO Blake Herren said in a recent interview.