 You know things are going good when SpaceX is launching satellites for their competitors. This is your space pod for March 5th, 2015. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday, March 1st, at 10.50 Eastern Standard Time, and it carried the twin satellites ABS-3A and UTEL-SAT 115 WB, and both of those satellites were built by Boeing. SpaceX did not attempt the landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, and it wasn't even equipped with landing legs anyway. The reason being was because they needed all of that extra fuel in order to get its payloads into their intended orbits. The satellites were launched in a conjoined stack, which is a Boeing innovation designed to reduce launch costs. The satellites are also based off of Boeing's 702SP, or Small Platform Satellite Bus. They were also designed by Boeing to be the first all-electric propulsive satellites. The satellites are propelled by ion engines. Although satellites and probes in the past have had ion engines, they were usually some sort of mix between ion engines and either solid rocket motors or small liquid-fueled engines. But this is the first time that a satellite is exclusively being propelled by ion engines. So this is a very cool launch, not just because of the ion engines, but also because of Boeing's conjoined stack configuration in order to launch two of their small platform satellites at once. But not only that, I think it's awesome that SpaceX was the one who carried these satellites into orbit in the first place. You'd think that SpaceX and Boeing would be more competitive, but at least in the satellite market, I'm very happy to see cooperation between these two companies. Speaking of Boeing and SpaceX, the milestones for the most recent round of NASA's Commercial Crew Program have finally been published, so we'll talk a little bit more in detail about what all of those milestones are and how many have already been accomplished. Thank you for watching this space pod. I would love to hear your guys' comments about what you think about these new satellites and the cooperation between Boeing and SpaceX for this launch. Leave a comment on YouTube or any of your favorite social media. We are of course a crowdfunded show, and every penny helps to bring you content like this. So if you're interested in helping us out, please visit patreon.com slash tmro to find out more information about how you can help us bring you epic space content like this. Also, please subscribe to our new channel, tmro, so that you can be notified whenever we release new content. My name is Michael Clark. Thank you again for watching, and we'll see you next time.