Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon as well as space company Blue Origin, talks about the future of commercial space travel. Brent Lewis | Denver Post | Getty Images Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is considering hiring an “orbital habitat formulation lead,” according to a post in the Jobs …
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AWS ground station satellite antenna in one of the company’s data centers at Boardman, Oregon. Amazon Microsoft will offer a new service called Azure Orbital that connects satellites directly to its cloud computing network, the company announced at its Ignite conference on Tuesday. The service will be launched in “Private …
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NASA is considering paying companies to collect dirt or rocks on the moon over the next four years, as a first step towards the agency’s goal of accelerating lunar exploration. “The time has come to establish regulatory certainty for ractivating and trading space resources,” NASA Administrator Jim Brydenstein said in …
Read More »SpaceX launches and lands StarShop SN6 prototype in flight test
SpaceX took one more step Thursday to develop its next-generation Starship rocket, conducting the second short-flight test of the prototype last month. The starship prototype serial number 6 or SN6 on the SpaceX facility in Boka Chika, Texas took off from the launchpad. It slowly climbed to about 500 feet …
Read More »Apple’s surprise iPhone 12 upgrade has a serious problem
Updated 27 aug. Article originally posted Aug 26 With Apple’s iPhone 12 launch expected in early September, definitive testing is underway for the hardware. And the latest leaked details show that the upgrade to the screen is not only in doubt but also comes with some major drawbacks. SHANGHAI, CHINA …
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