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8 Jul 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95
For the first time, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is raising money from outside investors. This comes after the setback in May that took out the only launch pad Blue Origin had for launching its New Glenn rocket (Launch Complex 36), which is expected to c...
25 Jun 2026 3 minute read 9 comments rah
Starlink is SpaceX’s global satellite‑internet network — and it has become the company’s main profit engine, responsible for the majority of SpaceX’s revenue and essentially all of its operating profit. I wrote last weekend on how Elon Musk intends t...
3 Jun 2026 4 minute read 0 comments rah
A while back I wrote a hoax post (which I revealed at the end of the post) about how Atlas-31, a comet, was going to arrive in Earth orbit with aliens aboard. Well, it is time for me to follow up on that with a real article about something that is re...
1 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
A striking analysis published by JR Research examines the SpaceX ($SPCX) initial public offering (IPO), expected to take place on June 12, 2026, and poised to be the largest in modern financial history. Aiming for an astronomical valuation of between...
30 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
A deep analysis published by Pythia Research clearly reveals why Rocket Lab stock is priced not just as a launch company, but as a "full-stack" space infrastructure platform. Especially after SpaceX's IPO filing of the S-1 draft, the market is positi...
27 May 2026 6 minute read 7 comments Investigator515
In this previous article, we took a look at how to use Satdump paired with the RTL-SDR and a modest antenna to collect live weather imagery from space.Shortly after this, however, it was announced that the NOAA Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) sa...
13 May 2026 5 minute read 0 comments rah
When I was a child I was inspired by The Usborne Book of the Future: A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond. It is a futurist book, that made all kinds of predictions about how our future would look including how our homes might look in the fut...
21 Apr 2026 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95
Almost exactly a year ago, I met and talked with two of the astronauts currently en route to circumnavigate the moon. Victor Glover and Christina Koch had both just finished up there hours long training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). NBL i...
17 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments CineLonga
Most days, technology feels invisible. You wake up, check your phone, scroll a bit, maybe send a few messages. Everything works so smoothly that you don’t think about what’s happening behind the scenes. Internet, satellites, power grids, it all runs...
11 Apr 2026 1 minute read 3 comments i'mature
I was listening to LBC’s Nick Abbot - the funniest man on British radio. It was a couple of hours before Artemis 2 was due to splash down after its round-trip to the Moon. Someone called in with something topical - did you know NASA spent millions on...
