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Revesdespace @[email protected] · 2026-09-14 · 06:05 UTC

🚀 Le prochain lancement de #NewGlenn se prépare : le second étage GS2 est en route pour le site Stennis de la NASA pour un essai statique à chaud (hotfire).
Le premier étage baptisé « Never Tell Me the Odds » a regagné le bâtiment d'intégration au complexe de lancement 36 (LC-36) de Cap Canaveral, un peu plus de 3 mois après que Blue Origin l'a retiré pour les opérations de nettoyage du pas de tir consécutives à l'explosion de la New Glenn le 28 mai.
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Revesdespace @[email protected] · 2026-09-14 · 06:05 UTC

🚀 Le prochain lancement de #NewGlenn se prépare : le second étage GS2 est en route pour le site Stennis de la NASA pour un essai statique à chaud (hotfire).
Le premier étage baptisé « Never Tell Me the Odds » a regagné le bâtiment d'intégration au complexe de lancement 36 (LC-36) de Cap Canaveral, un peu plus de 3 mois après que Blue Origin l'a retiré pour les opérations de nettoyage du pas de tir consécutives à l'explosion de la New Glenn le 28 mai.
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Revesdespace @[email protected] · 2026-09-14 · 06:05 UTC

🚀 Le prochain lancement de #NewGlenn se prépare : le second étage GS2 est en route pour le site Stennis de la NASA pour un essai statique à chaud (hotfire).
Le premier étage baptisé « Never Tell Me the Odds » a regagné le bâtiment d'intégration au complexe de lancement 36 (LC-36) de Cap Canaveral, un peu plus de 3 mois après que Blue Origin l'a retiré pour les opérations de nettoyage du pas de tir consécutives à l'explosion de la New Glenn le 28 mai.
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Revesdespace @[email protected] · 2026-09-14 · 06:05 UTC

🚀 Le prochain lancement de #NewGlenn se prépare : le second étage GS2 est en route pour le site Stennis de la NASA pour un essai statique à chaud (hotfire).
Le premier étage baptisé « Never Tell Me the Odds » a regagné le bâtiment d'intégration au complexe de lancement 36 (LC-36) de Cap Canaveral, un peu plus de 3 mois après que Blue Origin l'a retiré pour les opérations de nettoyage du pas de tir consécutives à l'explosion de la New Glenn le 28 mai.
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Revesdespace @[email protected] · 2026-09-14 · 06:05 UTC

🚀 Le prochain lancement de #NewGlenn se prépare : le second étage GS2 est en route pour le site Stennis de la NASA pour un essai statique à chaud (hotfire).
Le premier étage baptisé « Never Tell Me the Odds » a regagné le bâtiment d'intégration au complexe de lancement 36 (LC-36) de Cap Canaveral, un peu plus de 3 mois après que Blue Origin l'a retiré pour les opérations de nettoyage du pas de tir consécutives à l'explosion de la New Glenn le 28 mai.
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Rob Pegoraro @[email protected] · 2026-07-06 · 03:21 UTC

Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze

The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.

But wait, there was more: I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Tuesday about the business calculations I’m working through as I decide if going to Berlin for the IFA tech trade show can pencil out for me.

6/29/2026: Supreme Court Gives Trump the Green Light to Fire Heads of FTC, Other Agencies, PCMag

Since I’ve been following President Trump’s attempts to expel the Democratic minority on the Federal Trade Commission, commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, since first writing about this story last March, I felt obliged to cover the Court’s conclusion of this case.

6/30/2026: Supreme Court: Fourth Amendment Protects Your Phone’s Location History, PCMag

I felt just as obliged to cover the Court ruling that Google’s Location History tool incurs Fourth Amendment protections–and to note that the majority opinion describes this as if Google hadn’t since turned Location History into an on-device, end-to-end-encrypted feature that Google can no longer access if presented with a “geofence warrant.”

6/30/2026: The State With the Most Data Centers Will Now Tax Their Energy Use, PCMag

I had been meaning to write about how Virginia has begun to change its approach to the data centers that now sprawl across Loudoun and Prince William counties. But until the General Assembly reached a belated budget compromise in the closing days of June, I didn’t know what sort of change we’d get.

7/1/2026: Blue Origin: Here’s How We’ll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected, PCMag

Blue Origin posted an update Tuesday about its plans to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket. But in addition to having my hands full Tuesday, I needed part of Wednesday to take notes from videos of recent discussions–a panel with Blue founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp, another panel led by Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger, and a NASA press conference featuring administrator Jared Isaacman–that yielded some insight into the company’s situation.

7/2/2026: FAA Moves to Allow Civil Supersonic Flights Over Land, If They’re Quiet Enough, PCMag

This was my longest story published this week, because it had to cover not only the Federal Aviation Administration’s opening of a rulemaking process to legalize commercial supersonic flights over land but also the current state of affairs at Boom Supersonic and NASA’s debut of flight tests of its “low-boom” X-59 aircraft. That was a lot of detail to pack in, and I missed one error in my copy until a few hours after the story posted–I had described Boom’s XB-1 testbed aircraft as a single-engine plane when I meant single-seat.

7/3/2026: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR, Ars Technica

Earlier in June, I spent a fascinating 40 minutes with a computer strapped to my face in a windowless room in downtown D.C., enjoying a VR tour of some of the universe’s more interesting places. I thought that would be a good fit for a site that routinely covers both technology and astronomy, and that’s how I’ve now had two pieces run at Ars this year after going three years since my previous contribution to one of my daily tech-news reads.

7/3/2026: Backblaze: Backup May Be a ‘Declining’ Business, But We’re Not Backing Away

This post was originally going to start with my talking to an exec with this computer-backup and cloud-storage firm at the TechEx North America conference in the middle of May, but my having the appointment on my calendar did not prevent me from completely spacing about it. We then punted to having the conversation over video but next had to reschedule the call multiple times. And now that the piece is finally published, we need to correct a few small items in it.

#AlvaroBedoya #BlueOrigin #BoomSupersonic #boomlessCruise #ChatrieVUnitedStates #dataCenterTax #dataCenters #FTC #MachCutoff #nasa #NewGlenn #RebeccaKellySlaughter #SCOTUS #Smithsonian #Starstruck #supersonicTravel #SupremeCourt #TrumpVSlaughter #VirginiaPolitics #virtualReality #VR #X59

#alvarobedoya #blueorigin #boomsupersonic #boomlesscruise #chatrievunitedstates #datacentertax

Rob Pegoraro @[email protected] · 2026-06-01 · 03:55 UTC

Weekly output: Pope Leo XIV on AI, American Airlines + Starlink, Taara photonics, New Glenn explosion, way less Waymo

I did not see Project Hail Mary as soon as possible, but I did see it tonight and am very glad that I did, If you haven’t watched that movie, please do so while it’s still available on a big screen at a theater near you.

Patreon readers got an extra post Saturday inspired by a different sort of larger-than-life multimedia experience, seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nats Park Wednesday: a recap of the few years when I had “concert reviewer” as a low-paying, in-house side hustle at the Washington Post.

5/25/2026: Pope Leo XIV: Unchecked AI Development Risks Building a New Tower of Babel, PCMag

I spent much of Monday morning reading the pope’s encyclical about AI, then spent much of the afternoon writing a post unpacking that lengthy document for PCMag readers. Yes, Monday was a holiday, but as somebody brought up Catholic who then went to a Jesuit university, I felt like I had to do this work.

5/26/2026: American Airlines Will Switch to Starlink for Now, But Only on Airbus Narrowbodies, PCMag

American’s press release about this coming upgrade to the WiFi on part of its fleet left multiple questions unanswered, so I was glad that a publicist for AA fielded my questions as quickly as she did.

5/29/2026: Taara CEO: Our free-space optics links go where fiber won’t, Light Reading

I sat down with Mahesh Krishnaswamy, founder and CEO of this Alphabet moonshot offshoot, at the start of a busy day at Web Summit Vancouver two weeks ago. A small part of that conversation surfaced in a piece I did for PCMag about photonics that itself began with a trip to San Jose for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference there in mid April (with NTT covering my travel costs), but the rest had to wait for this piece. That, in turn, required me to have some downtime in which to write it, and as you may have noticed May was another ridiculous month for travel.

5/29/2026: Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes Spectacularly During Ground Test, PCMag

This is an outright disaster, and not just for Blue–if you want to see SpaceX get some competition for satellite-to-phone data, fast inflight WiFi and a return of American astronauts to the Moon’s surface, New Glenn would have been at least helpful if not outright essential. Blue not only has to figure out what went wrong with its heavy-lift rocket and fix that, it also has to either rebuild the launch complex mostly destroyed by this explosion or speed up construction of the second pad it has planned.

5/29/2026: Waymo Halts Freeway Operations, Stops Service in Some Cities Without Clearly Communicating What’s Up, PCMag

I had missed covering Waymo ending freeway service because that happened when I was flying home from Google I/O, but after seeing how badly that company had informed customers about that cutback in service and its suspensions of all service in some cities, I realized I had a broader piece to write.

#AA #AI #AIEthics #AmericanAirlines #BlueOrigin #commercialSpace #encyclical #explosion #laserLinks #MagnificaHumanitas #NewGlenn #papalEncyclical #photonics #pope #PopeLeoXIV #StarlinkInflight #StarlinkWiFi #Taara #Waymo #WaymoFreeways

#aa #ai #aiethics #americanairlines #blueorigin #commercialspace

SpaceNews: The space industry's source [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-05-30 · 21:06 UTC

Blue Origin gets national security launch task order hours before New Glenn explosion

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-gets-national-security-launch-task-order-hours-before-new-glenn-explosion/

#commercial #military #news #blueorigin #newglenn #nro

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#reddit:
"
New Glenn upper stage and blue ring have broken up. 67 fragments remain.
"
".. Beitrag wurde durch die Moderator*innen von r/BlueOrigin entfernt. "

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#reddit #blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #gs2 #newglenn

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#reddit:
"
New Glenn upper stage and blue ring have broken up. 67 fragments remain.
"
".. Beitrag wurde durch die Moderator*innen von r/BlueOrigin entfernt. "

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#reddit #blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #gs2 #newglenn

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#reddit:
"
New Glenn upper stage and blue ring have broken up. 67 fragments remain.
"
".. Beitrag wurde durch die Moderator*innen von r/BlueOrigin entfernt. "

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#reddit #blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #gs2 #newglenn

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#reddit:
"
New Glenn upper stage and blue ring have broken up. 67 fragments remain.
"
".. Beitrag wurde durch die Moderator*innen von r/BlueOrigin entfernt. "

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#spaceflight #rocketry #rakete #raumfahrt #ng1 #newglenn

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#reddit:
"
New Glenn upper stage and blue ring have broken up. 67 fragments remain.
"
".. Beitrag wurde durch die Moderator*innen von r/BlueOrigin entfernt. "

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #GS2 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#reddit #blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #gs2 #newglenn

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-01-16 · 09:06 UTC

"
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective.

.. engines ignited on Jan.16, 2025, at .. (0703 UTC) from LC 36 at Cape Canaveral ..
"
"The Blue Ring Pathfinder is receiving data + performing well. We lost the booster during descent. "

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

16.1.2025

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #DarkSky1 #Jacklyn #LC36 #LPV1 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #darksky1 #jacklyn #lc36

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-01-16 · 09:06 UTC

"
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective.

.. engines ignited on Jan.16, 2025, at .. (0703 UTC) from LC 36 at Cape Canaveral ..
"
"The Blue Ring Pathfinder is receiving data + performing well. We lost the booster during descent. "

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

16.1.2025

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #DarkSky1 #Jacklyn #LC36 #LPV1 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #darksky1 #jacklyn #lc36

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-01-16 · 09:06 UTC

"
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective.

.. engines ignited on Jan.16, 2025, at .. (0703 UTC) from LC 36 at Cape Canaveral ..
"
"The Blue Ring Pathfinder is receiving data + performing well. We lost the booster during descent. "

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

16.1.2025

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #DarkSky1 #Jacklyn #LC36 #LPV1 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#blueorigin #blueringpathfinder #bo #darksky1 #jacklyn #lc36

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-01-16 · 09:06 UTC

"
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective.

.. engines ignited on Jan.16, 2025, at .. (0703 UTC) from LC 36 at Cape Canaveral ..
"
"The Blue Ring Pathfinder is receiving data + performing well. We lost the booster during descent. "

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

16.1.2025

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #DarkSky1 #Jacklyn #LC36 #LPV1 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight

#spaceflight #rocketry #rakete #raumfahrt #ng1 #newglenn

RTN @[email protected] · 2025-01-16 · 09:06 UTC

"
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective.

.. engines ignited on Jan.16, 2025, at .. (0703 UTC) from LC 36 at Cape Canaveral ..
"
"The Blue Ring Pathfinder is receiving data + performing well. We lost the booster during descent. "

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-ng-1-mission

16.1.2025

#BlueOrigin #BlueRingPathfinder #BO #DarkSky1 #Jacklyn #LC36 #LPV1 #NewGlenn #NG1 #Raumfahrt #Rakete #rocketry #SpaceFlight