#Seattle science-fiction writer Vonda McIntyre completed the manuscript for a different kind of #Odyssey - from ancient Crete to the Pacific Northwest - just before she died in 2019. Seven years later, "The Curve of the World" has finally been published, and that's a cause for celebration. https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/15/late-author-curve-world/ #FictionScience #Minoan #History #Science #Archaeology #Books #ClarionWest

#AmazonLeo is planning to launch its commercial #satellite #broadband internet service in the "next couple of months," according to the project's vice president of business and product. But the service won't be available everywhere all at once. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-leo-double-pace-roll-out-satellite-broadband/ #Amazon #Space #Tech

The Financial Times quotes unidentified sources as saying that @blueorigin is looking at the option of seeking outside investors to boost the company's launch rate. Company founder Jeff Bezos, whose net worth currently amounts to around $270 billion, has put billions of dollars into his privately held space venture over the past 26 years. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-outside-investment/ #Space #BlueOrigin

Just catching up with this week's big news from the #KuiperBelt - about a mini-world that shouldn't have an atmosphere but apparently does. I also manage to wedge in a word about #Pluto. https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pluto-like-worlds-thin-atmosphere-poses-a-mystery/ #Space #TNO

Today's big data dump from the federal government's #UFO files includes a "bogey" seen by astronaut Frank Borman during the Gemini 7 mission in 1965. Actually, UFO sleuths explained that bogey 30 years ago. https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pentagon-releases-ufo-files-from-moon-trips-and-more/ #PURSUE #UAP #Space

#NASA has awarded Seattle-based #Interlune $6.9 million to develop a payload suite that can cook gases out of #moon dirt and look for traces of potentially valuable #hydrogen and #helium3. The project fits into Interlune's grand plan to sell lunar helium-3 for earthly applications. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/interlune-nasa-contract-extract-helium-3-hydrogen-moon/ #Space #Regolith

A Seattle-area tech venture called #PowerLight Technologies demonstrated to the #Pentagon how it can keep a military #drone flying with its power-beaming #laser system. The system could also be adapted to fight off enemy drones. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/powerlight-laser-power-beaming-drone-pentagon-test/ #Tech #Military #BeamPower

UPDATE: After a good-looking launch and landing for Blue Origin's first twice-used #NewGlenn rocket booster, AST SpaceMobile reports that its satellite was put into an orbit that's too low to sustain operations. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/blue-origin-uses-a-recycled-rocket-to-launch-satellite-for-ast-spacemobile/ #Space #BlueOrigin #NG3 #ASTSpaceMobile

#BlueOrigin was able to stick the landing at sea with a previously flown rocket booster - which is a first for the #NewGlenn launch system. However, the satellite that was launched didn't reach its intended orbit, and the company says it's assessing the situation. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/blue-origin-uses-a-recycled-rocket-to-launch-satellite-for-ast-spacemobile/ #NG3 #ASTSpaceMobile #Space

Hundreds of researchers will share the $3 million #BreakthroughPrize for Fundamental Physics, in recognition of their work on a geeky project called the Muon g-2 Collaboration. The prize was awarded at a glitzy ceremony that the organizers call the "Oscars of Science." https://www.geekwire.com/2026/physicists-3m-breakthrough-prize-muon-mysteries/ #Science