#blueorigin — Public Fediverse posts

Blue Origin might look beyond Jeff Bezos’ backing
For more than a quarter-century, Jeff Bezos has been funding his Blue Origin space venture primarily with his gains from Amazon, the other big company he founded — but according to a report in the Financial Times, Blue Origin is now weighing a plan to seek outside investment for the first time.

The report says Blu
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/13/blue-origin-might-look-beyond-jeff-bezos-backing/
#GeekWire #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Space

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116567706543556553

#BlueOrigin’s CEO in April said the group was planning between eight and 12 launches in total this year with #NewGlenn. He said the group had a longer-term goal of hitting 100 launches a year

How would you like to spend a summer holiday in a space hotel?
#space #spacestation #spacehotel #tourism #travel #spaceexploration #virgingalactic #blueorigin #spacex #voyagerstation #future

https://onlys.ky/space-tourism/

Undecided with Matt Ferrell

#SpaceSolarPower #SSPB #SSP #BlueOrigin

Why Space Solar Might Finally Work (But Not How You Think)

https://youtu.be/M5toP7tRkNc?si=giM6y-ZZS-iWZ_OF

@thunderf00t on YT!

#NASA #Artemis #BlueOrigin #SpaceX #SLS #Budget axe 🪓blues

NASA just killed Artemis: How Billionaires and Bureaucrats Stole the Moon 🌕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvSHh8at50

{ed: cancelling the only working component #SLS ahead of landing humans - China wins by default}

4/29/2026

Could SpaceX be buying land in southern Vermilion Parish | Business

A space exploration company is negotiating to buy a large amount of coastal land in southwest Louisiana, a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #BlueOrigin #exxon #landdeal #Louisiana #Science #spaceX #vermilionparish
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/629974/

Could SpaceX be buying land in southern Vermilion Parish | Business

A space exploration company is negotiating to buy a large amount of coastal land in southwest Louisiana, a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #BlueOrigin #exxon #landdeal #Louisiana #Science #spaceX #vermilionparish
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/629974/

@thunderf00t on YT!

#NASA #Artemis #BlueOrigin #SpaceX #SLS #Budget axe 🪓blues

NASA just killed Artemis: How Billionaires and Bureaucrats Stole the Moon 🌕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvSHh8at50

{ed: cancelling the only working component #SLS ahead of landing humans - China wins by default}

4/29/2026

Might have gone unnoticed :
#BlueOrigin's first commercial launch to #Mars 🔴 was part of #NASA's #ESCAPADE mission, which launched on November 13, 2025, using the #NewGlenn rocket https://www.space.com/space-exploration/5-reasons-why-blue-origins-new-glenn-mars-launch-was-a-big-deal

NASA to increase value of CLPS contract to support surge of lunar lander missions

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-increase-value-of-clps-contract-to-support-surge-of-lunar-lander-missions/

#ArsTechnica says "The suborbital space tourism industry is on life support".

Well, duh. Some ridiculously high price for 7 minutes of microgravity (or whatever) is bullshit. You don't even reach the Kármán line (100 km)! They redefined some other threshold at 80 km just so you could say you went to space. Hint: if you have to redefine a common, long-agreed term, you're not adhering to the letter or the spirit of the law/guideline.

It's orbit or GTFO.

#orbit #suborbital #SpaceTourism #GTFO #KármánLine #VirginGalactic #BlueOrigin

#NSS:
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The New Glenn 3 Anomaly in Historical Perspective
"
"When Blue Origin’s New Glenn 3 mission (NG-3) suffered an upper-stage failure, the reaction on social media was immediate and, in many ways, familiar. ..

As an engineer, I find that kind of reaction understandable—but often incomplete .."

https://nss.org/the-new-glenn-3-anomaly-in-historical-perspective/

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#NSS:
"
The New Glenn 3 Anomaly in Historical Perspective
"
"When Blue Origin’s New Glenn 3 mission (NG-3) suffered an upper-stage failure, the reaction on social media was immediate and, in many ways, familiar. ..

As an engineer, I find that kind of reaction understandable—but often incomplete .."

https://nss.org/the-new-glenn-3-anomaly-in-historical-perspective/

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#NSS:
"
The New Glenn 3 Anomaly in Historical Perspective
"
"When Blue Origin’s New Glenn 3 mission (NG-3) suffered an upper-stage failure, the reaction on social media was immediate and, in many ways, familiar. ..

As an engineer, I find that kind of reaction understandable—but often incomplete .."

https://nss.org/the-new-glenn-3-anomaly-in-historical-perspective/

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#NSS:
"
The New Glenn 3 Anomaly in Historical Perspective
"
"When Blue Origin’s New Glenn 3 mission (NG-3) suffered an upper-stage failure, the reaction on social media was immediate and, in many ways, familiar. ..

As an engineer, I find that kind of reaction understandable—but often incomplete .."

https://nss.org/the-new-glenn-3-anomaly-in-historical-perspective/

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#NSS:
"
The New Glenn 3 Anomaly in Historical Perspective
"
"When Blue Origin’s New Glenn 3 mission (NG-3) suffered an upper-stage failure, the reaction on social media was immediate and, in many ways, familiar. ..

As an engineer, I find that kind of reaction understandable—but often incomplete .."

https://nss.org/the-new-glenn-3-anomaly-in-historical-perspective/

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#BBC:
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Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite 'mishap'
"
".. lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine. .. Blue Origin is investigating the incident, which happened on Sunday, with oversight from the FAA. .. The FAA will determine based on the investigation findings when New Glenn can be launched again. .."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr9vwz48npo

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#BBC:
"
Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite 'mishap'
"
".. lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine. .. Blue Origin is investigating the incident, which happened on Sunday, with oversight from the FAA. .. The FAA will determine based on the investigation findings when New Glenn can be launched again. .."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr9vwz48npo

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#BBC:
"
Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite 'mishap'
"
".. lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine. .. Blue Origin is investigating the incident, which happened on Sunday, with oversight from the FAA. .. The FAA will determine based on the investigation findings when New Glenn can be launched again. .."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr9vwz48npo

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#BBC:
"
Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite 'mishap'
"
".. lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine. .. Blue Origin is investigating the incident, which happened on Sunday, with oversight from the FAA. .. The FAA will determine based on the investigation findings when New Glenn can be launched again. .."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr9vwz48npo

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#BBC:
"
Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite 'mishap'
"
".. lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine. .. Blue Origin is investigating the incident, which happened on Sunday, with oversight from the FAA. .. The FAA will determine based on the investigation findings when New Glenn can be launched again. .."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr9vwz48npo

20.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

W tym odcinku opowiadam przede wszystkim o zmianach w świecie technologii i biznesu, które w ostatnich tygodniach wywołały sporo emocji. Zaczynam od Amazona i decyzji dotyczącej starszych modeli Kindle, które po 20 maja stracą dostęp do nowych treści, a potem przechodzę do satelitarnego wyścigu zbrojeń, gdzie Amazon próbuje dogonić Starlinka. Wspominam też o historycznym, choć nie w pełni udanym locie Blue Origin z rakietą New Glenn i o tym, jak rozwija się rynek kosmicznej łączności.

Dużo miejsca poświęcam również Tesli i jej systemowi Full Self-Driving Supervised, który po raz pierwszy uzyskał zgodę w Europie, a także szerszej debacie o sztucznej inteligencji po obu stronach Atlantyku. Porównuję europejskie podejście Mistral AI do amerykańskiej wizji Palantira, omawiam spór Anthropic z Pentagonem oraz kontrowersje wokół wykorzystania danych i AI w sektorze publicznym.

Na koniec przyglądam się Wielkiej Brytanii, jej zależności technologicznej od USA i nowemu funduszowi Sovereign AI Fund, a także zmianom w Atlassian, które dotyczą nowych narzędzi AI i sposobu wykorzystywania danych klientów.

#Amazon #Kindle #Starlink #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Tesla #FSD #AI #MistralAI #Palantir #Anthropic #Pentagon #WielkaBrytania #Atlassian #Jira #Confluence

https://wtfs.stream/@what_the_fox_says/episodes/ejaje

W tym odcinku opowiadam przede wszystkim o zmianach w świecie technologii i biznesu, które w ostatnich tygodniach wywołały sporo emocji. Zaczynam od Amazona i decyzji dotyczącej starszych modeli Kindle, które po 20 maja stracą dostęp do nowych treści, a potem przechodzę do satelitarnego wyścigu zbrojeń, gdzie Amazon próbuje dogonić Starlinka. Wspominam też o historycznym, choć nie w pełni udanym locie Blue Origin z rakietą New Glenn i o tym, jak rozwija się rynek kosmicznej łączności.

Dużo miejsca poświęcam również Tesli i jej systemowi Full Self-Driving Supervised, który po raz pierwszy uzyskał zgodę w Europie, a także szerszej debacie o sztucznej inteligencji po obu stronach Atlantyku. Porównuję europejskie podejście Mistral AI do amerykańskiej wizji Palantira, omawiam spór Anthropic z Pentagonem oraz kontrowersje wokół wykorzystania danych i AI w sektorze publicznym.

Na koniec przyglądam się Wielkiej Brytanii, jej zależności technologicznej od USA i nowemu funduszowi Sovereign AI Fund, a także zmianom w Atlassian, które dotyczą nowych narzędzi AI i sposobu wykorzystywania danych klientów.

#Amazon #Kindle #Starlink #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Tesla #FSD #AI #MistralAI #Palantir #Anthropic #Pentagon #WielkaBrytania #Atlassian #Jira #Confluence

https://wtfs.stream/@what_the_fox_says/episodes/ejaje

@angryastro

Last night, a Blue Origin insider shared the real reason that the third flight of New Glenn ended in mission failure.
It appears to be a lot worse than what they're telling us!

https://youtu.be/Srk4uc6UJ0M

#BlueOrigin #NewGleen #NS3

NASA's Artemis program seeks to return astronauts to the moon through partnerships with SpaceX and Blue Origin, but mounting delays and technical challenges make its timeline and success uncertain. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/24/world/spacex-blue-origin-moon-landing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #nasa #artemis #spacex #blueorigin #elonmusk #jeffbezos #orion #starship #newglenn #bluemoon #apollo #china #us #lockheedmartin #moon #space

#Commercial missions currently targeting lunar 🌙 landing attempts in 2026

• #BlueOrigin: #BlueMoon
• #Firefly: #BlueGhost
• #IntuitiveMachines: #IM3
• #Astrobotic: #Griffin

In the second half of the year, #China 🇨🇳 aims to land at the lunar south pole and seek out water ice with its #robotic Chang'e 7 spacecraft
https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/moon-rush-these-private-spacecraft-will-attempt-lunar-landings-in-2026

@angryastro

As most of us know, #BlueOrigin had a bittersweet experience on Sunday. But, as near as we can tell, this is about to get much worse!
The huge New Glenn second stage is still up there, with dead engines or empty tanks, and poised to reenter somewhere. #NewGlenn
https://youtu.be/o7gaeWOcqxg

Wait, it was an upper stage failure? That's nice to hear. I was worried that reusing the lower stage was being problematic, but it might just be that Blue Origin needs more experience in orbital launches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-ktnZKepQ

#Astronautics #BlueOrigin #NASA #Artemis #Artemis3 #NewGlenn

#SpaceX launched 165 #Falcon9 missions in 2025. Of those, 122 - or ~74% - were dedicated #Starlink launches.

“We thought we had the launch thing solved, but it’s actually now a bit of a pain in the butt to get manifested on SpaceX. You have to go through launch integrators. They buy up all capacity”
https://payloadspace.com/the-state-of-launch-2026/

#RocketLab #StokeSpace #BlueOrigin #ULA #Airanespace

#FlugRevue:
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Dritter Flug von Bezos's Schwerlastrakete
Warum New Glenn einen Satelliten im falschen Orbit aussetzte
"
"Der Satellit BlueBird 7 von AST SpaceMobile wurde in eine zu niedrige Umlaufbahn befördert. Blue-Origin-Chef Dave Limp gab erste Information, woran es gelegen hat."

https://www.flugrevue.de/raumfahrt/warum-new-glenn-einen-satelliten-im-falschen-orbit-aussetzte/

21.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#FlugRevue:
"
Dritter Flug von Bezos's Schwerlastrakete
Warum New Glenn einen Satelliten im falschen Orbit aussetzte
"
"Der Satellit BlueBird 7 von AST SpaceMobile wurde in eine zu niedrige Umlaufbahn befördert. Blue-Origin-Chef Dave Limp gab erste Information, woran es gelegen hat."

https://www.flugrevue.de/raumfahrt/warum-new-glenn-einen-satelliten-im-falschen-orbit-aussetzte/

21.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#FlugRevue:
"
Dritter Flug von Bezos's Schwerlastrakete
Warum New Glenn einen Satelliten im falschen Orbit aussetzte
"
"Der Satellit BlueBird 7 von AST SpaceMobile wurde in eine zu niedrige Umlaufbahn befördert. Blue-Origin-Chef Dave Limp gab erste Information, woran es gelegen hat."

https://www.flugrevue.de/raumfahrt/warum-new-glenn-einen-satelliten-im-falschen-orbit-aussetzte/

21.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#FlugRevue:
"
Dritter Flug von Bezos's Schwerlastrakete
Warum New Glenn einen Satelliten im falschen Orbit aussetzte
"
"Der Satellit BlueBird 7 von AST SpaceMobile wurde in eine zu niedrige Umlaufbahn befördert. Blue-Origin-Chef Dave Limp gab erste Information, woran es gelegen hat."

https://www.flugrevue.de/raumfahrt/warum-new-glenn-einen-satelliten-im-falschen-orbit-aussetzte/

21.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#FlugRevue:
"
Dritter Flug von Bezos's Schwerlastrakete
Warum New Glenn einen Satelliten im falschen Orbit aussetzte
"
"Der Satellit BlueBird 7 von AST SpaceMobile wurde in eine zu niedrige Umlaufbahn befördert. Blue-Origin-Chef Dave Limp gab erste Information, woran es gelegen hat."

https://www.flugrevue.de/raumfahrt/warum-new-glenn-einen-satelliten-im-falschen-orbit-aussetzte/

21.4.2026

#BE3U #BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

@ai6yr Ars has pretty good information on Blue Origin mission failure.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/errant-upper-stage-spoils-blue-origins-success-in-reusing-new-glenn-booster/

#Blueorigin #Newglenn #Booster
#Artemis #Bezos #Nasa #Rocket

Blue Origin's New Glenn Mission Experiences Second Stage Anomaly

📰 Original title: Fallo del tercer lanzamiento del New Glenn, el primero en reutilizar una primera etapa

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/blue-origins-new-glenn-mission-experiences-second-stage-anomaly/?redirpost=12189a47-6a6a-4794-b77a-5c7f47742a73

#astronomy #blueorigin #newglenn #rocket #space

#BlueOrigin's chief executive Dave Limp said the failure was caused by a lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine. "We clearly didn't deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects."

Blue Origin was planning on a dozen #NewGlenn launches this year https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr9vwz48npo

AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird Satellite failed to achieve optimal orbit in launch on April 19, and it will be "deorbited".

The full-size mobile-broadband satellite was carried to space by Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, and it successfully separated from the launch rocket and powered on but was placed into a lower orbit than planned.

AST SpaceMobile is building a space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly from standard, unmodified smartphones. https://www.pcmag.com/news/blue-origin-rocket-launches-then-loses-ast-spacemobile-bluebird-satellite #Space #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Satellite #SpaceCraft #BlueBird #DirecttoDevice #BroadBand #Cellular

Blue Origin hat #NewGlenn erstmals wiederverwendet - ein Meilenstein mit Dämpfer: BlueBird 7 wurde zwar ausgesetzt, aber "niedriger als geplant". #BlueOrigin #Raumfahrt #BlueBird #Satellit #Umlaufbahn https://winfuture.de/news,158204.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

#ASTSpaceMobile:
"
During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited.
"
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5941043598547951&symbol=ASTS

19.4.2026

#BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #LC36 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#ASTSpaceMobile:
"
During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited.
"
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5941043598547951&symbol=ASTS

19.4.2026

#BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #LC36 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#ASTSpaceMobile:
"
During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited.
"
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5941043598547951&symbol=ASTS

19.4.2026

#BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #LC36 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#ASTSpaceMobile:
"
During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited.
"
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5941043598547951&symbol=ASTS

19.4.2026

#BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #LC36 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#ASTSpaceMobile:
"
During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited.
"
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5941043598547951&symbol=ASTS

19.4.2026

#BlueBird7 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #LC36 #NewGlenn #Rakete #rocketry #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

https://www.europesays.com/it/451195/ Lancio e rientro: il test del razzo New Glenn di Jeff Bezos è stato un successo. La corsa alla Luna prosegue #Affari #alto #AltoMetri #atlantico #atterrare #bezos #blue #BlueOrigin #booster #Business #complessa #corsa #costi #decollo #elon #ElonMusk #fondamentale #glenn #inseguimento #IT #Italia #Italy #jeff #JeffBezos #lanciato #lancio #new #NewGlenn #origin #razzo #satellite #spacex #successo