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Space exploration and aerospace industry articles

aerospaceJul 11, 20264 min

Elon Musk's Pattern: Why SpaceX's Valuation Makes Energy Acquisitions Plausible

Analysis of Elon Musk's consistent pattern of entering established industries claiming superior capability, and how SpaceX's current valuation makes cross-industry acquisitions like buying gas producers theoretically feasible.

aerospaceJul 11, 20263 min

Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy News: Satellites Find Targets Alone

In April 2026, Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite completed the first-ever autonomous identification of objects on orbit using Google Gemma 3 and NASA JPL's NAVI-Orbital software.

aerospaceJul 10, 20263 min

The Accidental Operating System: CentOS and the Rise of the Community RHEL

A look at how Gregory Kurtzer's passion project transformed into a crucial piece of enterprise open source infrastructure.

aerospaceJul 8, 20263 min

Beyond the Hype: Why SEO Remains the Essential Infrastructure for AI Search Success

Generative search engines aren't magic databases. They are probabilistic text calculators fed by the same crawling infrastructure SEOs have built and maintained for decades.

aerospaceJun 25, 20263 min

Unpacking NASA's Artemis Pivot: The Cost of Stalled Hardware

A brief analysis of how skyrocketing costs and delays in Artemis programs—specifically the Universal Stage Adapter—justified NASA's recent strategic shifts.

aerospaceJun 17, 20265 min

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board of directors

Former Sequoia Capital leader Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board, filling an existing vacancy days after the company's record-breaking IPO.