LOX Shortage Impacting SpaceX Launch Plans

SpaceX
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COLORADO SPRINGS—In addition to the computer chip shortages that are widely impacting aerospace and other industries, SpaceX is encountering shortfalls of liquid oxygen due to increased demand for oxygen by hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients. “We’re actually going to be impacted this year with...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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