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Blue Origin Delayed Static Fire Pushes Possible Launch to April 18, 2026

Blue Origin tried to spin the delayed static fire as a successful rehearsal. Today was a delayed static fire for the New Glenn flight 3.
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All Gas No Brakes for Space Economy

FCC Chair says all gas no brakes for space economy regulatory approvals. Amazon is acquiring Globalstar for their direct to cellphone spectrum. Amazon LEO will make just satellite internet but also DTC. Direct to cellphone. Itis Globalstar satellites, radio frequency spectrum, and operational expertise will enable Amazon Leo to add Direct-to-Device (D2D) services to future ... Read more

Ground-based Telescopes and a Shared Orbiting Starshade Can Directly See Earth-like Exoplanets

Imaging earth like exoplanets around Sun-like stars from the ground is challenging. We have never done it and here is an advance that could make it possible. A Nature paper predicts the performance of a hybrid space–ground approach that combines a large ground-based telescope, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope ... Read more

Echovision AI Glasses for the Blind and Low Vision Users

EchoVision is AI-powered smart glasses from AGIGA, a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2024. The help blind and low-vision users. The glasses look like stylish wrap-around sunglasses, with a wide field-of-view camera, open-ear audio, and a simple button interface for hands-free use. You press a button for real-time AI audio descriptions of your surroundings, switch ... Read more

SpaceX IPO, Index Funds and Lockup Periods

Retail investors (non-institutional individual/public shareholders) own roughly 35–44% of Tesla (TSLA) stock, depending on the exact source and reporting date. This is one of the higher retail ownership levels among trillion-dollar market-cap companies. This is $380-440 billion of the $1.1 trillion valuation of Tesla. Half of the retail investors in Tesla could be long time ... Read more

The Future of Marketing Teams Is Decentralization

There are many ways to manage a marketing team, and companies are always looking for ways to improve upon what they already built. These days, marketing leaders are increasingly leaning into decentralization. But how exactly does decentralization work within the context of a marketing team? And how can you see the full benefits in your ... Read more

IVO Quantum Orbital Thrust Update

30 Jan 2026 blog post from Dr Mike McCulloch, he compared the IVO Quantum drive based on Quantized inertia theory, satellite’s orbit to a nearly identical twin control satellite. From late September to late December 2025 (90 days), the IVO sat fell ~600 meters less than the control (IVO: 4,880 m decay; control: 5,480 m ... Read more