“The U.S. Air Force, which operates the reentry site, also denied Varda’s application to land there.”
Varda’s Winnebago-1 capsule launched June 12 on a planned one-month flight and came down in Utah more than eight months later. Regulators denied its reentry license and the Air Force refused it the landing site. The same Air Force had handed Varda $60 million in March 2023. The science needed one month in orbit. The paperwork needed seven more.