Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money

Key points

• Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report!
• The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday's explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn on its launch pad in Florida.
• Blue Origin aims to resume launches at the badly damaged launch facility by the end of the year, but there's good reason to be skeptical of this timeline.
• With New Glenn grounded, will Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos approach Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch his Blue Moon lander to the lunar south pole?
• It sure sounds like NASA is pushing for that.