#vast-space — Public Fediverse posts

Companies make the case for commercial space station markets

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/companies-make-the-case-for-commercial-space-station-markets/

Vast raises $500 million for commercial space station development

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-raises-500-million-for-commercial-space-station-development/

Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-wins-iss-private-astronaut-mission/

Weekly output: Robust.ai, United Airlines Starlink rollout, Ookla speed test rankings, UpScrolled, Shop with Points fraud risk, commercial space stations

This past week had me flying a long distance to trade snow for sand, in the form of Web Summit Qatar. This coming week will also have me flying from snow to sand, but not nearly as far: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the customer-experience company Medallia’s annual conference. (The organizers of each event are covering my travel costs.)

2/2/2026: Automation in the wild: Why real environments break perfect models, Web Summit Qatar

My one panel at Web Summit’s Qatar conference had me quizzing John Spinale, chief strategy officer at Robust.ai, about how that company has gone about designing robots to help ease the work of humans in warehouses.

2/2/2026: United Airlines: More Than 25% of Our Daily Departures Now Offer Starlink Wi-Fi, PCMag

I was able to add some context to this post because I’m an avgeek and know there’s a volunteer-run site tracking the state of United’s fleet–a site that I wrote about nine years ago.

2/3/2026: Latest Speed Tests Put T-Mobile Ahead of Rival Carriers, PCMag

I’ve been wondering why Ookla issues scores for AT&T’s fiber broadband, ignoring the rest of that company’s residential broadband services, while it grades other providers on a company-wide basis, and this time I asked Ookla far enough ahead of time to get a clear answer to include in my writeup of this survey.

2/4/2026: CEO of Would-Be TikTok Rival UpScrolled: We Won’t Censor Anybody, PCMag

Watching UpScrolled founder and CEO Issam Hijazi go on at Web Summit Qatar’s opening night about how that social platform would not practice censorship reminded me of all of the other times I’ve seen other social-networking executives say versions of that and then be proved wrong by reality.

2/4/2026: Shop on Amazon? Watch Out for This Sneaky Credit Card Points Scam, PCMag

I had started reporting this post in late December, then had to set it aside for CES, then had to set it aside for other pressing deadlines, and finally filed it on the last day of January.

2/6/2026: Space Startups to NASA: Hurry Up and Pick Someone to Build ISS Replacement, PCMag

Appropriately enough, considering a prior topic of my coverage this week, I finished and filed this post via Starlink from my Qatar Airways flight back to Dulles.

Former astronaut joins Vast as Haven-1 moves into integration

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/former-astronaut-joins-vast-as-haven-1-moves-into-integration/

In-Q-Tel invests in Vast

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/in-q-tel-invests-in-vast/

How Vast plans to keep humanity in orbit

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/how-vast-plans-to-keep-humanity-in-orbit/

On the eve of the ISS’s 25th anniversary, humanity stares down a gap in its presence in space

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/on-the-eve-of-the-isss-25th-anniversary-humanity-stares-down-a-gap-in-its-presence-in-space/

SpaceX launches fourth Bandwagon rideshare mission

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-fourth-bandwagon-rideshare-mission/

Trạm vũ trụ tư nhân đầu tiên trên thế giới, Haven-1, dự kiến sẽ được phóng vào năm 2026.

Đây là dự án hợp tác giữa Vast Space, NASA và SpaceX, hứa hẹn mở ra một kỷ nguyên mới cho du hành không gian thương mại.

#CôngNghệ #VũTrụ #KhôngGian #Haven1 #TrạmVũTrụ #VastSpace #SpaceX #NASA
#Technology #Space #SpaceStation #CommercialSpace

https://vtcnews.vn/cong-nghe-19-10-tram-vu-tru-tu-nhan-dau-tien-se-duoc-phong-vao-nam-2026-ar971900.html

Government contracts lay foundation for circular space economy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/government-investment-remains-key-to-creating-a-circular-space-economy/

Vast backs new NASA commercial space station strategy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-backs-new-nasa-commercial-space-station-strategy/

Vast signs three more payload partners for Haven-1

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-signs-three-more-payload-partners-for-haven-1/

NASA seeks proposals for two private astronaut missions to ISS

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/nasa-seeks-proposals-for-two-private-astronaut-missions-to-iss/

Vast signs agreement to test Haven-1 at NASA facility

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-signs-agreement-to-test-haven-1-at-nasa-facility/

This Company Wants to Build a #Space Station That Has #ArtificialGravity
Founded by crypto bro and programmer #JedMcCaleb, #VastSpace will run two missions to #ISS and aims to launch its first #spacestation, #Haven1, by the end of 2025.
The missions, still without official launch dates, will fall within #NASA’s private #astronaut program, through which the space agency wants to promote the development of a space economy in low Earth orbit.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-company-wants-to-build-a-space-station-that-has-artificial-gravity/
https://archive.ph/hquvo

Vast begins Haven-1 testing and reschedules its launch

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-begins-haven-1-testing-and-reschedules-its-launch/

🇺🇸 USA
🔴 That Company Aims Artificial Gravity in Space

🪧 Vast Space plans to launch Haven-1, its first private space station, by 2025, partnering with SpaceX.

🪧 Haven-2, set for 2028, aims to replace the ISS, offering modular upgrades and NASA certification. 🧵

#Space #VastSpace #NASA #VastSpace #ArtificialGravity #SpaceX

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— Компания Vast Space, разрабатывающая космическую станцию, подписала соглашение с правительством Чехии, согласно которому чешский астронавт отправится в космос.

Правда, не обязательно на станцию самой Vast Space, которую она планирует запустить в конце 2025 года — компания оставила себе возможность запустить астронавта на МКС.

В любом случае, это косвенно говорит о степени готовности станции Haven-1: даже если не в 2025, то в 2026 точно полетит:

https://spacenews.com/vast-signs-agreement-with-czech-government/

#космоновости #VastSpace

Even for somebody who does as much to prop up the commercial-aviation industry as I do, going to London and back in a sub-five-day span was a bit of a head-spinning experience.

10/8/2024: 6G experts find that the map for a new ‘G’ is still downloading, Light Reading

I needed an extra couple of days to write this report from the Spectrum Americans telecom-policy conference because of the very on-brand reason that I spent the next two days at a different telecom-policy conference.

10/8/2024: Uber Charges Up Vehicle Electrification Efforts, PCMag

I wrote this report from Uber’s Go-Get Zero event in London a few hours afterwards, in between some napping that I desperately needed to cope with jet lag and an annoying head cold that’s still around. Reminder: Uber covered my airfare and lodging at this event.

10/10/2024: Intel Unveils Next-Gen ‘Arrow Lake’ Desktop CPUs: They’re All About Efficiency, PCMag

My work for this began a month earlier at IFA in Berlin, when Intel staged a presentation covering its next desktop-processor architecture with an embargo date more than a month in the future.

10/13/2024: Starship Scores a Booster Catch on Its Fifth Flight Test, PCMag

Normal people don’t wake up early on a Sunday to watch a livestream of a rocket launch, but this was no normal rocket launch either.

10/13/2024: Vast Space Unveils Its Plan to Replace the International Space Station, PCMag

NASA’s intention to replace the International Space Station with a privately-built space station now has another possible station builder.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/13/weekly-output-6g-ubers-electrification-ambitions-intels-new-desktop-cpu-designs-spacexs-starship-booster-catch-vast-spaces-iss-replacement-proposal/

#6G #electrification #GoGetZero #Haven2 #IFA #London #spaceStation #SpaceX #SpaceXChopsticks #SpaceXStarship #SpectrumAmericas #spectrumPolicy #Uber #VastSpace

📆 2026 StarMax 400 m3 #Gravitics
📆 2026 LIFE Pathfinder 285 m3 #SierraSpace
📆 2026 Axiom Station #AxiomSpace
📆 2027 Haven-1 80 m3 #VastSpace
📆 2027 Lunar Gateway 125 m3 #NASA #ESA #CSA #JAXA
📆 2027 Orbital Reef 830 m3 #BlueOrigin #SierraSpace
📆 2027 Russian Orbital Service Station #Roscosmos
📆 2028 Starlab ~450 m3 #NanoRacks #VoyagerSpace #Airbus #MDASpace #Mitsubishi
📆 2028 Bharatiya Antariksha Station 265 m3 #ISRO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_stations#Planned_and_proposed

#SpaceStation #launch

#Starlink hosts more than 10,000 laser communications systems on orbit. Those lasers can sustain 100 Gbps connection 📶 per link. #VastSpace and #SpaceX announced in May 2023 a plan to launch #Haven1 as soon as 📆 August 2025. The commercial station would feature the ability to spin and generate enough centripetal force to create the equivalent of #gravity on the Moon. https://aviationweek.com/shows-events/space-symposium/vast-space-station-use-spacex-starlink-laser-comms

#SpaceStation #SpaceCommunication

📆 Jun 15, 2023 #NASA #LEO partnerships

• #BlueOrigin
• #NorthropGrumman
• #SierraSpace
• #SpaceX
• #SpecialAerospace
• #ThinkOrbital
• #VastSpace

“It is great to see companies invest their own capital toward innovative #commercial #space capabilities, and we’ve seen how these types of partnerships benefit both the private sector and NASA” https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/seven-us-companies-collaborate-with-nasa-to-advance-space-capabilities

#SpaceCompany #SpacePolitics

Blue Origin will work with NASA on orbital crew transport
NASA says it will collaborate with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture on the development of new space transportation capabilities that will provide high-frequency access to low Earth orbit for
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/06/15/blue-origin-will-work-with-nasa-on-orbital-crew-transport/
#GeekWire #BlueOrigin #CommercialSpaceflight #NASA #NorthropGrumman #SierraSpace #Space #SpaceX #SpecialAerospaceServices #ThinkOrbital #VastSpace

#space #vastspace #spacestation #commercial

Vast Space to launch 1st private station on SpaceX rocket in 2025

https://www.space.com/vast-space-private-station-spacex-launch-2025