#newglenn — Public Fediverse posts
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Blue Origin's Florida expansion is rather incredible.
written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera and Chris Bergin
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/09/blue-origin-expands-test-launch-cape/ -
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 -
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#LowEarthOrbit #Megaconstellations
#RocketPollution #Grounded #AmazonSucks #TechBrosInSpace #SendTechBrosToMars -
Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenn’s path to Space Force certification
ORLANDO, Fla. — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket will have to complete four successful orbital flights as its…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Science #SN #SpaceSystemsCommand #Spacepower
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Weekly output: Arc Boats, data brokers, Mark Vena podcast, New Glenn, Starship, TikTok
Ideally, the week after CES would be a relaxing time with at least one day spent entirely disconnected from work. Because we don’t live in an ideal world, my week instead featured the Supreme Court blowing up TikTok and SpaceX blowing up the second stage of its giant Starship rocket.
And on top of that, I wrote a post Wednesday for Patreon readers sharing further observations from CES.
1/13/2025: This Speedy Electric Sport Boat Leaves Internal Combustion in Its Wake, PCMag
My CES coverage almost wrapped up with this report of a fun outing on Lake Mead on a battery-electric boat–“almost” as in I have a couple of other stories that began with notes and quotes from that trade show, but which can’t be finished without additional reporting.
1/13/2025: Even the Experts Have Trouble Getting Data Brokers to Stop Tracking Them, PCMag
After covering ShmooCon Saturday, I spent part of Sunday watching that hacker conference’s closing panels remotely and part of it writing a recap of Yael Grauer’s talk about the futility of trying to opt out of data brokers without any help from the federal privacy law that Congress keeps failing to pass.
1/15/2026: Ep 106 SmartTechCheck Podcast — CES recap, TikTok, Zoox, TSMC, Apple, Mark Vena
I joined my industry analyst friend Mark and my fellow tech journalists Stewart Wolpin and John Quain for this CES recap.
1/16/2025: Blue Origin’s Giant New Glenn Rocket Reaches Orbit on Its First Try, PCMag
The 1 to 4 a.m. launch window that Blue Origin apparently picked to minimize interference with air traffic maximized interference with my sleep–especially when the first attempt on Monday morning saw five resets of the countdown clock before finally getting scrubbed a little after 3 a.m. The second one resulted in a successful launch at 2:03 a.m., but then writing the post (and eyeing my bleary-eyed copy carefully before pasting it into the CMS) had me up until after 3 a.m. anyway.
1/16/2025: SpaceX Catches a Booster But Loses an Upper Stage on Starship’s Seventh Flight, PCMag
About 17 hours after watching one rocket launch Thursday, I watched a second one that was not so successful–and not in the way that I’d thought Starship’s seventh test might go awry, a failed booster catch.
1/17/2025: Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, Finds No First Amendment Violations, PCMag
I wrote more than 500 words of background material in advance, plus ledes and closing sentences that would go with a court opinion against TikTok or for it. That let me get a completed story filed within half an hour of the court’s mercifully brief opinion getting posted at 10 a.m. Friday. That afternoon, I added another section with reactions from various parties, including two of my favorite tech-policy experts who also happen to be among two of the fastest sources I know to answer an e-mail request for comment.
#ArcBoats #BlueOrigin #ces #dataBrokers #electricBoat #FirstAmendment #LasVegas #MarkVena #NewGlenn #Shmoocon #SpaceX #Starship #SupremeCourt #TikTok #YaelGrauer
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🇨🇳 #Landspace #Zhuque-2 launch 🚀 scheduled for 📆 July 12. If successful, Zhuque-2 will become the world’s first #methalox launch vehicle to achieve #orbit.
A range of methalox #rockets, including #SpaceX’s #Starship, the #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn, #RocketLab’s #Neutron and #TerranR from #RelativitySpace, are at various stages of development and testing. https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-set-for-second-methalox-rocket-launch/ -
🇨🇳 #Landspace #Zhuque-2 launch 🚀 scheduled for 📆 July 12. If successful, Zhuque-2 will become the world’s first #methalox launch vehicle to achieve #orbit.
A range of methalox #rockets, including #SpaceX’s #Starship, the #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn, #RocketLab’s #Neutron and #TerranR from #RelativitySpace, are at various stages of development and testing. https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-set-for-second-methalox-rocket-launch/ -
🇨🇳 #Landspace #Zhuque-2 launch 🚀 scheduled for 📆 July 12. If successful, Zhuque-2 will become the world’s first #methalox launch vehicle to achieve #orbit.
A range of methalox #rockets, including #SpaceX’s #Starship, the #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn, #RocketLab’s #Neutron and #TerranR from #RelativitySpace, are at various stages of development and testing. https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-set-for-second-methalox-rocket-launch/ -
🇨🇳 #Landspace #Zhuque-2 launch 🚀 scheduled for 📆 July 12. If successful, Zhuque-2 will become the world’s first #methalox launch vehicle to achieve #orbit.
A range of methalox #rockets, including #SpaceX’s #Starship, the #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn, #RocketLab’s #Neutron and #TerranR from #RelativitySpace, are at various stages of development and testing. https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-set-for-second-methalox-rocket-launch/ -
🇨🇳 #Landspace #Zhuque-2 launch 🚀 scheduled for 📆 July 12. If successful, Zhuque-2 will become the world’s first #methalox launch vehicle to achieve #orbit.
A range of methalox #rockets, including #SpaceX’s #Starship, the #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn, #RocketLab’s #Neutron and #TerranR from #RelativitySpace, are at various stages of development and testing. https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-set-for-second-methalox-rocket-launch/