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Impulse Space CEO Tom Mueller. Photo courtesy of Impulse Space.
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SpaceX’s Founding Engineer Has 10 Months to Bring ‘Last-Mile Delivery’ to Space

By Becky Peterson · Jan. 17, 2023 10:24 AM PST · 1 comment
Elon Musk wants to get to Mars as soon as possible. One of his first employees at SpaceX, Tom Mueller, is focused on another destination: the moon. Mueller—who founded his own startup, Impulse Space, in 2021 after retiring from SpaceX—recently announced that Impulse’s first ever vehicle, the Mira, will head into outer space... Elon Musk wants to get to Mars as soon as possible. One of his first employees at SpaceX, Tom...
From left: Meagan Roth, Firefly Aerospace; Brandi Sippel, Muon Space; Will Bruey, Varda Space Industries; Ryan Westerdahl, Turion Space; Tom Mueller, Impulse Space. Source: The companies
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How SpaceX Alumni Are Building the Next Generation of Space Startups

By Becky Peterson · Dec. 22, 2022 6:00 AM PST
Elon Musk rose to prominence as a member of the “PayPal mafia,” a nickname for alumni of the digital payments provider who went on to create or work at other important tech startups. Now one of Musk’s companies—rocket maker SpaceX—is also pumping out alumni who are taking on key roles at a growing crop of aerospace... Elon Musk rose to prominence as a member of the “PayPal mafia,” a nickname for alumni...
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Elon Musk Risks Being an Also-Ran in the Mobile Space Race

By Becky Peterson · Sept. 7, 2022 6:00 AM PDT · 4 comments
If Elon Musk’s SpaceX and T-Mobile are to have any hope of beating a wide range of rivals—including Amazon and potentially Apple—to the market for satellite-delivered cellphone services, they need to overcome an array of both regulatory and technological roadblocks. Musk and SpaceX engineers are racing to clear key engineering... If Elon Musk’s SpaceX and T-Mobile are to have any hope of beating a wide range of...
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The Cost of Amazon’s ‘Too Much Space’ Problem
By Paris Martineau · May 5, 2022 6:00 AM PDT
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Data Point
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The Cost of Amazon’s ‘Too Much Space’ Problem

By Paris Martineau · May 5, 2022 6:00 AM PDT
Amazon has carried out a massive physical expansion over the last two and a half years, adding more than 200 million square feet of new facilities and doubling its physical footprint as the company accelerated plans to grow its already sprawling distribution network in response to a surge of demand from homebound consumers. All that spending... Amazon has carried out a massive physical expansion over the last two and a half years, adding...
An illustration of the new "personal boundary" system in Horizon Worlds. Credit: Meta.
Reality Check
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Meta’s Personal Space Patch; PC VR Figures and an Earnings Roundup

By Mathew Olson · Feb. 7, 2022 11:00 AM PST
To sell people on the potential of AR and VR, Meta Platforms has often referred to “superpowers” that the technology can grant people, such as teleportation. Meta wants people to embrace these ideas not as sci-fi fancies, but as shorthand for how people will go about their lives with the aid of the metaverse. But a problem arises whenever Meta... To sell people on the potential of AR and VR, Meta Platforms has often referred to “superpowers”...
Jeff Bezos at a Blue Origin event in 2017. Photo by Bloomberg
The Briefing
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Bezos Will Blast Himself Into Space

By Martin Peers · June 7, 2021 5:00 PM PDT
Now we know why Jeff Bezos picked July 5 as the date to give up the Amazon CEO job—two weeks later he’ll be flying into space on Blue Origin’s first flight with human passengers. Can you imagine the nerves of investors if he decided to strap himself into that rocket ship while still holding the CEO reins? A flight of any kind has an element... Now we know why Jeff Bezos picked July 5 as the date to give up the Amazon CEO job—two weeks...
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Amazon Quietly Axed Millions of Square Feet of Warehouse Space

By Paris Martineau · May 24, 2022 11:42 AM PDT · 2 comments
Over the last three months, Amazon has canceled plans for nearly 10 million square feet of warehouse space, shelving plans for more than a dozen fulfillment centers and delivery facilities around the U.S. as the company wrestles with a costly space glut on the heels of the pandemic. The scope of the pullback, which is previously unreported,... Over the last three months, Amazon has canceled plans for nearly 10 million square feet of...
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Why Remote Work Doesn’t Mean the End of Office Space

By Sarah Krouse · Dec. 23, 2021 3:00 AM PST · 1 comment
Block, the financial services-focused tech company known until recently as Square, was one of the first high-profile tech businesses to allow permanent remote work when founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced the policy in early 2020. And yet more than a year later, the majority of employees said they wanted to work from an office at least... Block, the financial services-focused tech company known until recently as Square, was one...
From left: Peter Beck, Bob Smith, Elon Musk, George Whitesides and Will Marshall. Photos by Bloomberg. Illustration by Mike Sullivan
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SpaceX Launch Puts Spotlight on Space Startups

By The Information Staff · June 2, 2020 7:01 AM PDT · 1 comment
Veterans of rocket companies and other commercial space ventures have an old saying: The secret to making a small fortune in the space business is to start out with a large fortune.Despite the elusive nature of profits in the industry, space entrepreneurs and investors are riding high on a major new milestone for the sector, Space Exploration... Veterans of rocket companies and other commercial space ventures have an old saying: The secret...