Vast raises $500 million for commercial space station development

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-raises-500-million-for-commercial-space-station-development/

Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/vast-wins-iss-private-astronaut-mission/

Weekly output: Robust.ai, United Airlines Starlink rollout, Ookla speed test rankings, UpScrolled, Shop with Points fraud risk, commercial space stations

This past week had me flying a long distance to trade snow for sand, in the form of Web Summit Qatar. This coming week will also have me flying from snow to sand, but not nearly as far: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the customer-experience company Medallia’s annual conference. (The organizers of each event are covering my travel costs.)

2/2/2026: Automation in the wild: Why real environments break perfect models, Web Summit Qatar

My one panel at Web Summit’s Qatar conference had me quizzing John Spinale, chief strategy officer at Robust.ai, about how that company has gone about designing robots to help ease the work of humans in warehouses.

2/2/2026: United Airlines: More Than 25% of Our Daily Departures Now Offer Starlink Wi-Fi, PCMag

I was able to add some context to this post because I’m an avgeek and know there’s a volunteer-run site tracking the state of United’s fleet–a site that I wrote about nine years ago.

2/3/2026: Latest Speed Tests Put T-Mobile Ahead of Rival Carriers, PCMag

I’ve been wondering why Ookla issues scores for AT&T’s fiber broadband, ignoring the rest of that company’s residential broadband services, while it grades other providers on a company-wide basis, and this time I asked Ookla far enough ahead of time to get a clear answer to include in my writeup of this survey.

2/4/2026: CEO of Would-Be TikTok Rival UpScrolled: We Won’t Censor Anybody, PCMag

Watching UpScrolled founder and CEO Issam Hijazi go on at Web Summit Qatar’s opening night about how that social platform would not practice censorship reminded me of all of the other times I’ve seen other social-networking executives say versions of that and then be proved wrong by reality.

2/4/2026: Shop on Amazon? Watch Out for This Sneaky Credit Card Points Scam, PCMag

I had started reporting this post in late December, then had to set it aside for CES, then had to set it aside for other pressing deadlines, and finally filed it on the last day of January.

2/6/2026: Space Startups to NASA: Hurry Up and Pick Someone to Build ISS Replacement, PCMag

Appropriately enough, considering a prior topic of my coverage this week, I finished and filed this post via Starlink from my Qatar Airways flight back to Dulles.

Former astronaut joins Vast as Haven-1 moves into integration

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/former-astronaut-joins-vast-as-haven-1-moves-into-integration/

In-Q-Tel invests in Vast

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/in-q-tel-invests-in-vast/

How Vast plans to keep humanity in orbit

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/how-vast-plans-to-keep-humanity-in-orbit/

On the eve of the ISS’s 25th anniversary, humanity stares down a gap in its presence in space

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/on-the-eve-of-the-isss-25th-anniversary-humanity-stares-down-a-gap-in-its-presence-in-space/

SpaceX launches fourth Bandwagon rideshare mission

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-fourth-bandwagon-rideshare-mission/

Trạm vũ trụ tư nhân đầu tiên trên thế giới, Haven-1, dự kiến sẽ được phóng vào năm 2026.

Đây là dự án hợp tác giữa Vast Space, NASA và SpaceX, hứa hẹn mở ra một kỷ nguyên mới cho du hành không gian thương mại.

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