Stoke Space said to be raising as much as $500 million in private investment capital

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A regenerative heat shield plus some other goodies make this an advanced system.  It looks like it will be rather small too.  

SpaceX goes big, Stoke goes small.  Both will go fully re-usable.  

Stoke will compete with the Falcon 9, but SpaceX wants to retire the Falcon 9.  Once the Starship gets going, there will be little need for it.

It looks like Stoke will fill that gap that SpaceX leaves behind.

Note:  Looks like a lot of google links got inserted here.  The first sentence has one, and I highlighted it.  If I click on the button, google will insert these.  There's a lot of them, and I won't highlight them all.  If there's one, there's others!  It may require a change in my conventions for my blog.