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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/

#NASA #NewGlenn #Bezos #BlueOrigin

Infrasound Detection, Geolocation, and Yield Estimate of the May 2026 Blue Origin #NewGlenn Static‐Fire Explosion: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/6/3/348/734849/Infrasound-Detection-Geolocation-and-Yield -> #BlueOrigin Explosion Detected and Measured with #Infrasound Data: https://www.seismosoc.org/news/blue-origin-explosion-detected-and-measured-with-infrasound-data/

Infrasound Detection, Geolocation, and Yield Estimate of the May 2026 Blue Origin #NewGlenn Static‐Fire Explosion: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/6/3/348/734849/Infrasound-Detection-Geolocation-and-Yield -> #BlueOrigin Explosion Detected and Measured with #Infrasound Data: https://www.seismosoc.org/news/blue-origin-explosion-detected-and-measured-with-infrasound-data/

Infrasound Detection, Geolocation, and Yield Estimate of the May 2026 Blue Origin #NewGlenn Static‐Fire Explosion: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/6/3/348/734849/Infrasound-Detection-Geolocation-and-Yield -> #BlueOrigin Explosion Detected and Measured with #Infrasound Data: https://www.seismosoc.org/news/blue-origin-explosion-detected-and-measured-with-infrasound-data/

Infrasound Detection, Geolocation, and Yield Estimate of the May 2026 Blue Origin #NewGlenn Static‐Fire Explosion: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/6/3/348/734849/Infrasound-Detection-Geolocation-and-Yield -> #BlueOrigin Explosion Detected and Measured with #Infrasound Data: https://www.seismosoc.org/news/blue-origin-explosion-detected-and-measured-with-infrasound-data/

Infrasound Detection, Geolocation, and Yield Estimate of the May 2026 Blue Origin #NewGlenn Static‐Fire Explosion: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/6/3/348/734849/Infrasound-Detection-Geolocation-and-Yield -> #BlueOrigin Explosion Detected and Measured with #Infrasound Data: https://www.seismosoc.org/news/blue-origin-explosion-detected-and-measured-with-infrasound-data/

"Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #SpaceX has been making noises of phasing out #Falcon9 rockets when #Starship is ready. Concern is growing in the #space industry that it would pull the rug out from under many smaller satellite customers where competing launchers (#RocketLab #Neutron, #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn, etc) aren't yet ready to fill the gap. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/ #NewSpace #business #economy

"Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #SpaceX has been making noises of phasing out #Falcon9 rockets when #Starship is ready. Concern is growing in the #space industry that it would pull the rug out from under many smaller satellite customers where competing launchers (#RocketLab #Neutron, #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn, etc) aren't yet ready to fill the gap. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/ #NewSpace #business #economy

"Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #SpaceX has been making noises of phasing out #Falcon9 rockets when #Starship is ready. Concern is growing in the #space industry that it would pull the rug out from under many smaller satellite customers where competing launchers (#RocketLab #Neutron, #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn, etc) aren't yet ready to fill the gap. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/ #NewSpace #business #economy

"Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #SpaceX has been making noises of phasing out #Falcon9 rockets when #Starship is ready. Concern is growing in the #space industry that it would pull the rug out from under many smaller satellite customers where competing launchers (#RocketLab #Neutron, #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn, etc) aren't yet ready to fill the gap. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/ #NewSpace #business #economy

"Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #SpaceX has been making noises of phasing out #Falcon9 rockets when #Starship is ready. Concern is growing in the #space industry that it would pull the rug out from under many smaller satellite customers where competing launchers (#RocketLab #Neutron, #ULA #Vulcan, #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn, etc) aren't yet ready to fill the gap. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/ #NewSpace #business #economy

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.

The first #LIFE module for #OrbitalReef is a three-story structure, 8 meters in diameter 📏, a massive amount of open, configurable volume. #Blue Origin is providing the #NewGlenn heavy-lift launch 🚀 capability. A realistic operational date is estimated to be post-📆 2028.

#Starlab launch date 📆 2028: if the single launch on #Starship works, they will have a complete station in orbit overnight ⏱️.

As of late 2025, #Axiom is winning the hardware race https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2025/11/14/what-is-orbital-reef

#SpaceStation

When will #SpaceTourism to orbit 🌌 or beyond be available other than to the #ISS, #Tiangong or (to stay) in a #Dragon / #Starliner capsule ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism#Orbital_space_tourism

#Haven2 #Starlab #OrbitalReef #VoyagerSpace #VoyagerStation #journalism #SpaceHotel #Starship #NewGlenn #Gaganyaan #HumanSpaceflight

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

ESCAPADE – op zoek naar de verdwenen atmosfeer van Mars
De eerste dubbele satelliet-missie van NASA naar een andere planeet, ESCAPADE, staat gepland voor zondagavond.
#atmosfeer #BlueOrigin #ESCAPADE #lancering #mars #nasa #NewGlenn
https://www.kuuke.nl/escapade-op-zoek-naar-de-verdwenen-atmosfeer-van-mars/

Watch Blue Origin Launch New Glenn For The First Time! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqW1OjVepCk&ab_channel=EverydayAstronaut
#EverydayAstronaut #BnlueOrigin #NewGlenn #BE4 #BE3U #LC36 #RocketLaunch #Rocket #TestFlight #NG1 #BlueRing

Watch Blue Origin Launch New Glenn For The First Time! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8ymH0cHoQ&ab_channel=EverydayAstronaut
#EverydayAstronaut #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #Rocket #RocketLaunch #BE4 #BE3U #FlightTest #NG1 #Space

New Glennの打ち上げ準備中、SpaceX Crew-9が準備中。LC-39A Starshipの最新情報。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616kKbZM1PM

Blue OriginのNew Glennが初飛行に近づき、SpaceXはSLC-40からCrew Dragonの打ち上げを準備中。LC-39AのStarship施設の更新も続く中、Roberts RoadのSpaceX急成長、Blue Originの最新テストなどを紹介。

ULAのVulcanやRelativityのLC-16での作業も取り上げる #SpaceX #NewGlenn #Crew9 #Starship #LC39A #VulcanRocket #BlueOrigin #KSCFlyover

2nd #BlueOrigin / #NewGlenn tour by #EverydayAstronaut

00:36 - Production Campus
01:08 - Final Assembly Bay
02:03 - Strake
03:51 - Booster Mid-Section
11:51 - Brilliant Ad
13:21 - Integration Facility
15:06 - Launch Pad
27:13 - Launch Tower
36:58 - History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8SlfmpKM4

New #rockets 🚀 set to launch In 📆 2024

• #Ariane6
• #VulcanCentaur (with #DreamChaser)
• #Starship
• #NewGlenn (with #EscaPADE)

https://www.barrons.com/news/new-rockets-set-to-launch-in-2024-a5aa8df2

#ESA #ULA #SpaceX #BlueOrigin

While #BlueOrigin confirmed this month that it is still targeting 📆 2024 for #NewGlenn's first launch 🚀, that could slip into 📆 2025 as #BlueOrigin has an engine supply problem to solve.
#NewGlenn needs seven 7️⃣ working #BE4 engines, but it has to supply two engines for each of its customer #ULA's new #VulcanCentaur #rocket launches 🚀. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-blue-crane-port-canaveral-piece.html

📆 October 7, 2023 Kennedy #SpaceCenter is busy https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/10/ksc-flyover-october-2023

#Starship #NewGlenn #VulcanCentaur #Psyche #Kuiper #SpaceX #BlueOrigin #ULA #CapeCanaveral

"Jeff Bezos’ #BlueOrigin rocket engine explodes during testing" by @CNBC / @michaelsheetz - #BE4 engine test explosion at Van Horn TX test site is a setback for BO's #NewGlenn and #ULA #Vulcan rockets. Potential cause identified. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-be-4-rocket-engine-explodes-during-testing.html #VulcanCentaur #space