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  1. Weekly output: satellite-to-phone usage map, BEAD buildout blues, anti-scam Android updates, best inventions of 2026, inflight WiFi (x3), unlocked smartphones, Zayo, Blue Origin

    Just three days after returning from one transatlantic trip, I’m heading back across the pond–this time, to Milan for the Consumer Technology Association’s CES Unveiled event there. I’m doing one onstage interview for CTA, while the Italian Trade Agency is covering my airfare and lodging.

    10/12/2026: Where Are People Using Cellular Satellite Services? This Map Will Show You, PCMag

    Ookla offered me an advance look at this map showing where their software has observed direct-to-device connections from satellites (mostly Starlink) to phones, plus an interview with a product-management VP who offered more insight than I would have gotten from any press release.

    10/12/2026: A BEAD ‘Twilight Zone.’ ISPs Annoyed by Delays With Broadband Funding Rollout, PCMag

    This post provided an excellent reminder that watching a livestream of a conference panel is a poor substitute for attending in person–after watching this discussion at the AnchorNets conference in Crystal City, I interviewed the attendee who had vented about his experience with the federal broadband-buildout program, then talked to one of the panelists later in the day.

    10/14/2026: Google’s Latest Android Updates Use AI to Clamp Down on Mobile Scams, PCMag

    This post took very little time to write, which was a good thing considering that I had to write it between podcast interviews at an AI conference in Dublin.

    10/15/2026: The Best Inventions of 2026, Time

    My parents subscribed to Time when I was in high school, so it was neat to get my first byline there–five of them, in the form of profiles for this annual package. In order of their appearance on this long list: Bluetooth Auracast broadcast audio, the Gigs OS prepaid wireless service platform, TransUnion’s Branded Call Display, Lightmatter’s Guide photonics engine for data centers, and Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike Challenge system.

    10/15/2026: Almost Half of United Airlines Departures Now Feature Starlink Connectivity, PCMag

    I thought I’d write this post via Starlink on my Aer Lingus flight home from Dublin, but instead jet lag had me awake in the middle of the night. Then I did use that inflight broadband to field a request for a correction–an advance copy of United’s press release had the wrong address for their Starlink tracker, which United’s PR rep promptly brought to our attention.

    10/15/2026: Southwest Airlines Updates Starlink Flight Plan, Will Upgrade Entire Fleet, PCMag

    I updated the piece I wrote in February with this news about Southwest’s decision to install Space’s broadband across its entire fleet.

    10/16/2026: The best way to get great airline WiFi — and why you might not want to, The Washington Post

    I wrote this to reject the notion–one you see all the time on X–that Starlink is the only inflight WiFi that matters, and that any airline unwilling to install it deserves to have its planes crushed into beer cans. I thought this piece would draw more comments given how strongly many people feel about Elon Musk, by which I mean how much many people hate Elon Musk, but as you can see it did not.

    10/16/2026: Buying a phone from a wireless carrier has limits. There’s another option., The Washington Post

    This week’s tech tip was inspired in part by my mother-in-law shopping for a new iPhone; I pointed out that by buying a new model at the local Apple Store, she could get it unlocked, get a trade-in on her old iPhone, and have somebody at the Genius Bar help with transferring over everything from the old phone.

    10/16/2026: How Zayo is trying to keep its cool in an overheating data center market, Light Reading

    I wrote this the previous week, itself a week after I’d interviewed the CTO of this telecom-infrastructure firm at SCTE TechExpo in Atlanta, and then it took a little more time to get the piece edited and published.

    10/16/2026: Blue Origin Unveils Plans for Massive Upgrade to Its Florida Facilities, PCMag

    I thought I’d have a low-key Friday, and then Blue Origin announced these plans for a serious expansion of its Cape Canaveral infrastructure–some of which I’d seen in the distance at the end of August.

    #AnchorNets #android #BEAD #BlueOrigin #BluetoothAuracast #callerID #CapeCanaveral #dataCenters #directToDevice #EutelsatOneWeb #GigsOS #howToBuyUnlockedPhone #inflightWiFi #Lightmatter #MLB #NewGlenn #Ookla #photonics #satelliteRoaming #scamTexts #SCTETechExpo #Southwest #SpaceCoast #Starlink #StarlinkMobile #Time #TransUnion #UA #UnitedAirlines #unlockedPhones #WN #Zayo
  2. Starship Flight 15 is targeting 📆 November, with the goal of catching 🦾 both the booster and the Ship. Flight 16 is currently aimed for 📆 December and could become the first #Starship launch from Launch Complex 39A. Both vehicles would need to be shipped individually to #Kennedy Space Center nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/sp

    #CapeCanaveral #KSC #SpaceX

  3. RE: chaos.social/@raumfahrttutnot/

    "Parts of the #BavariaOne* heavy-lift rocket, built in the Upper Palatinate, on their way to #CapeCanaveral" 🤣

    * Bavarian Premier was ruthlessly mocked on social media for the self-referential ambitious new plan dw.com/en/bavaria-one-german-s

    #Satire #Söder #Bayern #Bavaria

  4. Teile der in der Oberpfalz gebauten Bavaria-One-Schwerlastrakete auf dem Weg nach Cape Canaveral:

    #CapeCanaveral #KSC #Raumfahrt #Regensburg #SpaceFlight #Weltraumbahnhof

  5. Around 30 minutes from now, we will witness the launch via my (Daniel Suguwa's) #BQP150 live stream of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, carrying 21 x USSF SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer A military satellites, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

    As always, everything are subjected to various changes, so please be patient in case of stream or launch delays. See you there, and enjoy the flight! 😊

    Watch here: youtu.be/UfhrszB7xr0

    #spacex #falcon9 #ussf #sda #t1tl #t1tl-a #capecanaveral

  6. LIVE: NASA, SpaceX briefing ahead of Crew-13 launch

    NASA and SpaceX hold a briefing at Florida's Cape Canaveral ahead of the Crew-13 launch. #nasa #spacex #crew13 #space #capecanaveral Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

    fllics.com/zh/video/live-nasa-

  7. Space Force Bolsters Cape Canaveral Defenses Against Small Drones

    Get ready for a major boost in security: Cape Canaveral is set to receive cutting-edge counter-drone defenses in the coming weeks, thanks to the latest tech and a top priority spot on Joint Interagency Task Force 401's list. The new systems will supercharge existing defenses to better protect against small…

    osintsights.com/space-force-bo

    #CounterDroneDefenses #SpaceForce #CapeCanaveral #EmergingThreats #UnmannedAircraftSystems

  8. Weekly output: facial recognition at airports, seeing space launches, smart-glasses detection

    Somehow, we’ve now traveled more than a quarter of a century since Sept. 11, 2001. I thought about writing something about that millstone of a milestone here, but I didn’t know what I’d want to add to what I wrote on the 20th anniversary of that awful day. (Besides, I guess, speculating about how little a narrow plurality of American voters might have learned from the last 25 years before choosing to return Donald Trump to the White House.) I did, however, appreciate reading the 25th-anniversary testimonies of friends and strangers, and a Reddit post asking what D.C. was like on 9/11 persuaded me to post my own short recap there.

    I also feel that I did not do Friday justice by failing to fly on Sept. 11 as I have so many times over the last 15 years. But I will be back in the air Friday to make my second pilgrimage to LAX for Cranky Dorkfest, the wonderful avgeek meetup that I finally checked out (and then wrote up) last year.

    9/7/2026: These Airport Execs Are All-In on Facial Recognition, But Not Necessarily for the Reasons You’d Think, PCMag

    I watched this panel at the Identity Week conference in D.C. on Thursday of the previous week but didn’t file my recap until Saturday afternoon. In the meantime, feedback on my Bluesky posts recounting that panel convinced me there would be some reader interest in the topic.

    9/8/2026: Let’s Fly: How to Watch a Rocket Launch From Florida’s Space Coast, PCMag

    I updated the post I’d written in the fall of 2024 with insights from seeing a Falcon Heavy launch from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and updates about SpaceX’s reduced Florida launch cadence. Other updates to this post included fixing an embarrassing-to-me error that nobody else had called out: I had referred to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as the Cape Canaveral Space Force Center.

    9/10/2026: Worried About Snooping Smart Glasses? This Startup’s Tech Detects Nearby Specs, PCMag

    Enterprise-software news doesn’t always strike as PCMag material, but the widespread resentment of camera-equipped connected eyewear–“pervert glasses,” as some skeptics put it–made me think this item was different.

    #911 #airportSecurity #BastilleNetworks #biometricAuthentication #biometricIdentity #CapeCanaveral #connectedGlasses #facialRecognition #IdentityWeek #kennedySpaceCenter #ksc #pervertGlasses #rocketLaunch #Sept11 #smartGlasses #SpaceCoast #spaceLaunch
  9. Un grande osservatorio spaziale dedicato a una donna. Roman è in volo: il telescopio della Nasa che vuole svelare il 95% «invisibile» dell’universo. Lanciato da Cape Canaveral, è il primo grande osservatorio spaziale dedicato a una donna. Caccerà esopianeti, mapperà galassie e studierà materia ed energia ...

    scienzamagia.eu/scienza-e-tecn

    #CapeCanaveral #esopianeti #FalconHeavy #JackieTownsend #JamesWebb #JaredIsaacman #KennedySpaceCenter #NancyGraceRoman #puntodiLagrangeL2 #telescopiospazialeRoman

  10. The re-build rush is on!

    "Hardware recovery and debris removal operations are complete, and reconstruction of the pad has started,"

    Blue Origin has vowed to bounce back quickly, and starts rebuilding launch pad LC-36A damaged when its New Glenn rocket exploded on May 28 during a routine engine test.

    The company is suggesting it will fly New Glenn again by the end of the year. space.com/space-exploration/la #NASA #Space #BlueOrigin ##NewGlenn #LC36A #CapeCanaveral #9X4 #Rocket #LaunchPad

  11. Blue Origin’s 320-foot New Glenn rocket suffered a catastrophic anomaly and exploded during a routine "hotfire" static test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

    #blueorigin #newglenn #spacex #nasa #artemis #rocketexplosion #capecanaveral #spacecoast #aerospace #rocketscience

  12. #BlueOrigin:
    "
    NG-4 Hotfire Updates
    "
    ".. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. .. the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integ. facility also look good."

    "We will fly again before the end of this year."

    1.6.2026

    blueorigin.com/news/ng-4-hotfi

    #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NG4 #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  13. europesays.com/people/94834/ Blue Origin Rocket Explodes On The Launch Pad During An Engine-Firing Test #BlueOrigin #CapeCanaveral(Fla) #JeffBezos

  14. #JerusalemPost:
    "
    Blue Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad, experts say

    A Blue Origin booster called "No, It's Necessary" - a nod to a line from the film Interstellar - was wrecked in the incident on Thursday, and the launch pad was "practically destroyed," experts said.
    "
    jpost.com/business-and-innovat

    30.5.2026

    #BE4 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  15. #space.com:
    "
    Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test
    "
    "It could be a big setback for the company, and for NASA's moon plans."

    "LC-36 is currently the only pad that hosts New Glenn launches, so extensive damage to the pad would likely keep the rocket grounded for a while."

    space.com/space-exploration/la

    29.5.2026

    #BE4 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  16. #Spaceflightnow:
    "
    Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during prelaunch testing at Cape Canaveral
    "
    ".. appeared to destroy at least one of the lightning protection towers at LC-36 and the transporter erector. Until a full assessment is completed, it’s impossible to know exactly how long it will take to resume launch ops. .."

    spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/29/

    29.5.2026

    #BE4 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  17. #DW:
    "
    Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad
    "
    "A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' space company exploded in a massive fireball during a test on its launch pad in Florida."

    "According to Isaacman, NASA will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available."

    dw.com/en/blue-origins-new-gle

    29.5.2026

    #BE4 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  18. #Tagesschau:
    "
    Blue-Origin-Rakete explodiert bei Test
    "
    ".. Bei dem Test habe es eine "Unregelmäßigkeit" gegeben, teilte Blue Origin .. mit. "Es werden keine Mitarbeiter vermisst. Sobald wir mehr wissen, werden wir die Informationen weitergeben." .."

    tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/techn

    29.5.2026

    #BE4 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  19. #SRF:
    "
    .. Die leistungsstarke Schwerlastrakete «New Glenn» des Raumfahrtunternehmens Blue Origin von Amazon-Gründer Jeff Bezos ist explodiert.
    Bei einem Routinetest der unbemannten Rakete auf dem Weltraumbahnhof Cape Canaveral war eine grosse Explosion samt riesigem Feuerball zu sehen. .."

    srf.ch/news/international/cape

    29.5.2026

    #BE4 #BlueOrigin #BO #CapeCanaveral #explosion #LC36 #LNG #NewGlenn #NoItsNecessary #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #SpaceFlight #USA

  20. #CapeCanaveral : #LC39A’s #Starship pad is still at least six months behind Pad 2, not including the missing propellant tanks. However, SpaceX can start flying 🚀 from the pad, as long as teams have enough for about one and a half launches. The next steps for the first pad at #SLC37 will be to start stacking the first of two launch towers nasaspaceflight.com/2026/04/st

  21. A mother photographs her son on the Cape Canaveral #beach while a flock of #birds looks on. I got this picture less than an hour after the second New Glenn rocket launch.
    #photography #CapeCanaveral #Florida

  22. #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.
    "
    feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-re

    19.4.2026

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

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