SpaceX Launch Approval, Rocket Lab, and Global Space Industry Updates. Bob Zimmerman discusses how Space Force approved SpaceX's request to double launches to 100 per year and open a second launch site at Vandenberg, despite Coastal Commission opposition.

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🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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SpaceX Launch Approval, Rocket Lab, and Global Space Industry Updates. Bob Zimmerman discusses how Space Force approved SpaceX's request to double launches to 100 per year and open a second launch site at Vandenberg, despite Coastal Commission opposition. Wall Street views Rocket Lab favorably due to many recent launch contracts, even though it's still developing the Neutron rocket and not yet profitable. Impulse Space shifted focus to a lunar cargo lander, using its Helios tug as a service module, seeking to meet NASA's need for efficient lunar cargo delivery.

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0:30.5	This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel with Bob Zimmerman. It keeps the website behind the black. And Bob is here to tell us how terrible the hurricane season was, how awful it was,
0:36.0	wiped out New England, wiped out North Carolina,
0:38.8	is still doing damage in the Arctic. Bob, what happened? Well, what happened is it didn't do
0:45.0	what was predicted. And this is once again me indicating the uncertainty of science, especially
0:50.6	when it comes to climate. Nothing settled. No one really understands the climate.
0:55.3	It's extremely complex, and we've only really been studying it in detail with good
1:00.7	instrumentation for about a half century, and we're talking about something that evolves over
1:07.8	millions of years, so we really don't understand it.
1:10.3	So anyway, every year, NOAA issues
1:12.7	predictions about what the hurricane season is going to be like, and in 2024, they predicted
1:19.1	it would be a very active hurricane season. Now, I posted a link to a paper that published,
1:26.7	that reviewed the prediction in 24, and it did not, the hurricane season did not behave as expected, and they don't understand exactly how it behaved.
1:35.8	They got the number right.
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