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Cosmic Log @[email protected] · 2026-06-30 · 23:18 UTC

Blue Origin switches to new concept for rocket launches
One month after a New Glenn rocket explosion damaged its Florida launch pad, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has decided to shift its focus to a new concept for future launches.

“To return to flight this year, we’re not rebuilding the same pad,” Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said in an online update.
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/06/30/blue-origin-switches-to-new-concept-for-rocket-launches/
#GeekWire #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Space

#geekwire #blueorigin #newglenn #space

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-05-29 · 20:05 UTC

Ooopsies! #BlueOrigin rocket explosion damages #NewGlenn launchpad in Florida

Everyone working in the area was “accounted for and safe" after the New Glenn explosion, according to Jeff Bezos.

By Emilee Speck, AccuWeather staff writer
Published May 29, 2026

https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/blue-origin-rocket-explosion-damages-new-glenn-launchpad-in-florida/1896121

#LowEarthOrbit #Megaconstellations
#RocketPollution #Grounded #AmazonSucks #TechBrosInSpace #SendTechBrosToMars

#blueorigin #newglenn #lowearthorbit #megaconstellations #rocketpollution #grounded

Rob Pegoraro @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 04:46 UTC

Weekly output: AT&T 5G, Meta breakup bid blocked, Mozilla Foundation, social-media usage, Starship and New Glenn

I spent much of the only week in November not disrupted by my own travel schedule catching up on things from the previous two weeks. As you can see from the list below, that was an incomplete exercise.

(Speaking of previous weeks, I also wrote a post for Patreon supporters recapping my experience at Web Summit in Lisbon.)

11/17/2025: AT&T Boosts 5G Speed and Capacity With EchoStar Spectrum, PCMag

Having written in September about Boost Mobile’s plans to sell this spectrum to AT&T, I felt obliged to cover AT&T putting those frequencies into service sooner than I would have imagined possible.

11/19/2025: Court Rejects FTC’s Bid to Break Up Meta, Finds It’s Not a Social Media Monopoly, PCMag

I didn’t span on spending a large chunk of Tuesday afternoon reading a judge’s opinion about the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to order Meta to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. I also didn’t expect to find the judge’s analysis of Facebook so relatable.

11/20/2025: With Its Next Big Thing, Mozilla Wants to Do More Than Improve the Web, PCMag

The interview at the center of this post happened two weeks earlier, so I appreciated the Mozilla Foundation providing some details about early proposals received since then for its AI-for-democracy funding program.

11/20/2025: Among Social Media Users, Reddit Soars As X Stagnates, PCMag

Thursday had no work items on my calendar, so I could cover this new report from the Pew Research Center about which social platforms have earned time on the schedules of Americans.

11/21/2025: SpaceX’s Starship Suffers Major Test Mishap a Day After Blue Origin Unveils Rocket Upgrade Plans, PCMag

I was going to spent Friday writing a post about an information-security conference I attended Tuesday, but then SpaceX had the booster stage of its Starship rocket fail catastrophically in a ground test a day after that company’s increasingly-capable rival Blue Origin outlined some ambitious upgrades to its own New Glenn launch vehicle.

#att5g #blueOrigin #blueskyUsage #boostMobile #facebookInstagram #ftcVMeta #metaBreakup #mozillaFoundation #newGlenn #pewResearchCenter #socialMedia #spacexStarship #starship

#att5g #blueorigin #blueskyusage #boostmobile #facebookinstagram #ftcvmeta

Rob Pegoraro @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 04:46 UTC

Weekly output: USPS NGDV, spectrum policy, Pixel Drop, Uber’s robotaxi hopes, AI + cybersecurity, Tesla Files, Cerebras, New Glenn launch and landing, Cory Doctorow

Friday afternoon’s landing at Dulles and subsequent Metro ride home put this year’s business travel in the books–unless somebody else is prepared to pay for an additional work trip in 2025, and not even I want that to happen.

11/10/2025: I Took America’s Goofiest-Looking EV for a Spin. It Might Swing by Your Mailbox Soon, PCMag

My mid-October trip to Wisconsin (with Oshkosh Corp. paying for the airfare and lodging) yielded this report about the U.S. Postal Service’s NextGen Delivery Vehicle that I have yet to see in operation near me.

11/11/2025: It’s easy to reassign spectrum if you’re not the one using it, Light Reading

I rounded out this recap of a spectrum-policy conference I’d attended at the end of October with some quotes from a broadband expert whose insight I’ve been borrowing for the last 15 years or so.

11/11/2025: Google’s Latest Pixel Drop Adds Messaging Tricks And Tweaks, PCMag

The time-zone spread between the 2 p.m. Eastern embargo time for this item and my Western European local time for most of last week made this easy to file between other Web Summit schedule commitments.

11/12/2025: Cybersecurity at the pace of AI, Web Summit

The first of three panels I moderated at this conference in Lisbon had me quizzing Rob Daly, CTO of the security-training firm SoSafe, about how AI has complicated the work of people like him. As in previous years, Web Summit’s organizers paid for my lodging and are reimbursing me for my airfare.

11/12/2025: The Tesla Files: Leaks, power, and control, Web Summit

Later that Wednesday, I interviewed Sönke Iwersen, head of investigative research at Handelsblatt, about that German newspaper’s groundbreaking reporting on Tesla’s secretive and often careless approach to safety. Iwersen brought up a part of this story that hadn’t emerged in my pre-conference banter over e-mail with him: the steep personal price the paper’s informant has paid.

11/13/2025: The startups taking on Nvidia, Web Summit

Where my onstage interview of Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman at Web Summit Qatar in February had me running out of questions in my hand-written outline, this chat Thursday afternoon with that AI-processor startup’s chief strategy officer Andy Hock required me to cross out some queries in my notes because he answered the others at such length.

11/13/2025: Uber COO on Robotaxis: The Economics Don’t Work…Yet, PCMag

This panel happened late Tuesday afternoon, right before a crowded evening schedule; having to moderate two panels of my own on Wednesday pushed my filing time to Wednesday afternoon.

11/14/2025: Blue Origin Lands Its Giant Rocket’s Booster for the First Time, PCMag

A hold late in the countdown pushed the second launch of New Glenn to around dinnertime in Lisbon. So I didn’t get to watch any part of this mission on a screen larger than my phone’s until after I got back to my hotel–with fewer hours left than I would have liked before I had to head to Lisbon’s airport to fly back to the States.

11/14/2025: Cory Doctorow’s Plan for a Better Internet: Legalize Jailbreaking, Modding, and Tinkering, PCMag

I did not plan on my Web Summit coverage giving me a chance to put the neologism “enshittogenic” into the opening paragraphs of a story, but sometimes life comes at you fast.

#AIProcessors #AndroidUpdate #antiCircumventionLaws #BlueOrigin #Cerebras #CoryDoctor #Handelsblatt #jailbreaking #NewGlenn #newspace #NGDV #Nvidia #Oshkosh #PixelDrop #SoSafe #SpectrumAmericas #spectrumAuction #sprectrumReallocation #TeslaFiles #UberRobotaxi #UberWaymo #USPSElectricTruck #whistleblowing