Amazon’s Starlink Rival Renamed ‘Leo’ as Blue Origin Lands Rocket at Sea
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Amazon has renamed its satellite internet program from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, as the company continues building a low Earth orbit network intended to bring high-speed connectivity to underserved regions. There are now over 150 Amazon Leo satellites…
Back to Top / Thursday, November 13, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 15948 / 5 stories in 3 months
Blue Origin scrubs New Glenn's second flight due to bad weather
engadget - Blue Origin has postponed the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, which was slated to send a pair of NASA spacecraft on the first step of their journey to Mars on Sunday afternoon. The heavy-lift launch vehicle was scheduled to take off from Cape Canav…
Back to Top / Sunday, November 9, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 15815 / 7 stories in 3 months
NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and theyre going a new way
mashable - A NASA mission will send twin spacecraft to Mars to learn what happened to the Red Planet's ancient, thick atmosphere.
Back to Top / Saturday, November 8, 2025, 11:21 am / permalink 15797 / 2 stories in 3 months
SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers
Sean O'Kane / techcrunch - The internet provider has bought more 'direct to cell' spectrum licenses from EchoStar and struck a deal with the owner of British Airways.
Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 1:21 pm / permalink 15737 / 4 stories in 4 months
Google exploring putting AI data centers in space — Project Suncatcher wants to harness in-orbit solar power to scale AI compute
tomshardware - Google is looking into putting AI data centers into orbit, but it still needs to solve a ton of engineering and cost challenges.
Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 15685 / 5 stories in 4 months
Adaptronics Raises €3.15M To Transform Robotic Gripping And Handling
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Adaptronics, a deeptech startup developing electro-adhesive grippers for industrial automation and space robotics, has raised €3.15 million. The round was led by 360 Capital and included participation from Galaxia, the aerospace technology transfer hub ba…
Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 6:21 am / permalink 15679 / 4 stories in 4 months
Trump Renominates Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA
Micah Maidenberg / wsj - The announcement came about five months after the president dropped support for the technology executive.
Back to Top / Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 6:21 pm / permalink 15666 / 10 stories in 4 months
Google's Next Moonshot Is Putting TPUs In Space With 'Project Suncatcher'
BeauHD / slashdot - Google's new "Project Suncatcher" aims to launch Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into space, creating a solar-powered, satellite-based AI networkcapable of scaling machine learning beyond Earth's limits. Google says a "solar panel can be up to 8 times more…
Back to Top / Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 15662 / 11 stories in 4 months
With $104M raise, EnduroSat builds new space centre to accelerate satellite launches
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Sofia-based EnduroSat has secured $104 million in new funding, marking one of the largest boosts for Europe’s growing…
Back to Top / Friday, October 31, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 15566 / 3 stories in 4 months
NASA's supersonic jet completes its first flight in California
engadget - Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) aircraft is design…
Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 2:22 pm / permalink 15554 / 3 stories in 4 months
iPhone 18 Rumored to Feature 50% More RAM
Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 could feature 50% more memory than its predecessor, according to Korea's The Bell.With its latest iPhone lineup, the iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max feature 12GB of memory. This is a significant increase of 4GB …
Back to Top / Saturday, October 25, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 15396 / 5 stories in 4 months
SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition
Richard Speed / theregister - Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar land…
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 11:21 am / permalink 15277 / 9 stories in 4 months
United Airlines Flight Sustains Impact From Possible Space Object
Ellyn Lapointe / gizmodo - The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a United Airlines plane that was flying over Utah when something smashed into its windshield.
Back to Top / Monday, October 20, 2025, 3:20 pm / permalink 15234 / 5 stories in 4 months
Transportation Secretary Duffy says Musk's SpaceX is behind on moon trip and he will reopen contracts
cnbc - Duffy said he will open the contract to other space companies that can help get to the moon quicker as it races against China.
Back to Top / Monday, October 20, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 15218 / 2 stories in 4 months
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
Stephen Clark / arstechnica - This was the last flight of SpaceX's second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 3:20 am / permalink 15106 / 8 stories in 4 months
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex Social Security CISO tells The Register The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on sk…
Back to Top / Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 5:21 pm / permalink 14952 / 6 stories in 5 months
T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service now works with a handful of apps
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - T-Mobile just announced that its T-Satellite with Starlink service now integrates with several apps. These include AllTrails, AccuWeather, X, WhatsApp and several others. Certain native apps also now integrate with the service, like Google Messages, Apple…
Back to Top / Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 1:21 pm / permalink 14949 / 4 stories in 5 months
SpaceX's lunar lander could be 'years late' for a planned 2027 mission to the moon
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - SpaceX's lunar lander has run into a snag and may not be ready for a mission to the moon that was scheduled for 2027, according to a report by Space News. The company's Starship Human Landing System (HLS) is a variant of the typical Starship spacecraft th…
Back to Top / Monday, September 22, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 14802 / 3 stories in 5 months
Starlink network outage disrupts connectivity for thousands
Elon Musk’s Starlink service recently experienced a widespread outage affecting users across Canada, the U.S., and beyond, leaving many scrambling for alternative connections. The disruption raised eyebrows as critics question the reliability of satellite internet—because nothing says “high-tech” like a network that occasionally decides to take a coffee break.
Back to Top / Monday, September 15, 2025, 1:20 am / permalink 14527 / 1 stories in 5 months
NASA Says This Martian Rock Holds Potential Signs of Life. Here’s What Must Happen Next
Ellyn Lapointe / gizmodo - The case for the Mars Sample Return mission has never been more clear.
Back to Top / Thursday, September 11, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 14402 / 4 stories in 5 months