@CosmicLog

Quantum fluctuations in space, science and exploration, served up by Cosmic Log creator Alan Boyle (@b0yle).

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Amazon ships satellites for Kuiper broadband network cosmiclog.com/2025/01/24/ama…
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Hubble gets a wide-screen view of Andromeda galaxy cosmiclog.com/2025/01/21/hub…

Hubble gets a wide-screen view of Andromeda galaxy

Over the course of more than a decade, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to gather up 2.5 billion pixels’ worth of imagery focusing on the Andromeda galaxy — and the results c…

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Investors will back space ventures with million-dollar bets cosmiclog.com/2025/01/17/inv…

Investors will back space ventures with million-dollar bets

Seattle-area venture capital firm Fuse wants to light a spark for entrepreneurs focusing on the final frontier, and it’s willing to invest a million dollars to turn a good idea into a great startup…

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SpaceX loses Starship's upper stage but catches booster cosmiclog.com/2025/01/16/spa…

SpaceX loses Starship’s upper stage but catches booster

SpaceX’s seventh flight test of its massive Starship launch system brought good news as well as not-so-great news. The good news? The Super Heavy booster successfully flew itself back to the Texas …

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket makes its orbital debut cosmiclog.com/2025/01/16/blu…
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Blue Origin gets set for orbital launch despite iffy weather cosmiclog.com/2025/01/15/blu…
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Stoke Space raises $260M for its fully reusable rocket cosmiclog.com/2025/01/15/sto…

Stoke Space raises $260M for its fully reusable rocket

Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space says it’s raised $260 million in a new founding round to finish the development of its fully reusable Nova rocket and complete construction of a launch complex in Flor…

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Blue Origin resets the plan for first orbital launch ... twice! cosmiclog.com/2025/01/13/blu…

Blue Origin resets the plan for first orbital launch … twice!

Over the course of just a few hours today, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture made two adjustments to the schedule for launching its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time. At f…

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Blue Origin quickly resets the plan for first orbital launch cosmiclog.com/2025/01/13/blu…
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Glitch forces a delay for Blue Origin's first orbital launch cosmiclog.com/2025/01/13/blu…

Glitch forces a delay for Blue Origin’s first orbital launch

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital launch of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket due to a s…

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The Blue Origin launch team is proceeding with New Glenn propellant loading.
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UPDATE: Blue Origin delays first orbital launch for another day cosmiclog.com/2025/01/11/blu…
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Blue Origin counts down to its first orbital rocket launch cosmiclog.com/2025/01/11/blu…
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T-Mobile and SpaceX provide satellite links amid LA fires cosmiclog.com/2025/01/10/t-m…

T-Mobile and SpaceX provide satellite links amid LA fires

T-Mobile has opened up direct-to-cellular emergency texting over SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network on a temporary basis in areas affected by this week’s catastrophic wildfires in the Los Angeles …

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UPDATE: Blue Origin resets the date for New Glenn rocket's orbital debut cosmiclog.com/2025/01/09/blu…

Blue Origin resets the date for New Glenn’s orbital debut

UPDATE: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s delaying the first-ever launch of its orbital-class New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions for landing the first-stage booste…

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NASA lays out two new options for Mars sample return cosmiclog.com/2025/01/07/nas…

NASA lays out two new options for Mars sample return

Months after deciding that its previous plan for bringing samples back from Mars wasn’t going to work, NASA says it’s working out the details for two new sample return scenarios, with the aim of br…

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Blue Origin sets the date for New Glenn's orbital debut cosmiclog.com/2025/01/06/blu…
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Amazon revs up for the internet satellite market: cosmiclog.com/2024/12/31/ama…
Atlas V launch with prototype Amazon Kuiper satellites in 2023

ALT Atlas V launch with prototype Amazon Kuiper satellites in 2023

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