This week involved four airports, three flights, two hotels and an alarm set on my phone for 1 a.m. Thursday–and the lost sleep was more than justified by being able to witness the sight and sound of a Falcon 9 launch from about six miles away.
9/10/2024: Demo Day 2024, Vention
I flew to Chicago Tuesday morning to lead the panel discussion with Vention founder and CEO Etienne Lacroix and Nvidia vice present and robotics and edge computing general manager Deepu Talla that closed out this robotics firm’s programming at the IMTS convention there. I got the gig because somebody at Vention thought I’d done a good enough job quizzing Lacroix on a panel I moderated at the Collision conference in Toronto three months ago.
9/12/2024: AST SpaceMobile’s first five BlueBird satellites reach orbit, Light Reading
I flew from Chicago to Orlando the evening before–making this yet another year in which I’ve flown on Sept. 11–and checked into my hotel around 11 p.m. Two AST publicists picked me up at 1:30 a.m. to run me over to another Space Coast hotel from which a bus took me and dozens of AST shareholders to the Kennedy Space Center, from where another bus took us to KSC’s Apollo/Saturn V center to watch the launch. I filed this story at 11:30 a.m. after returning to my room and passing out for an hour or so. Being able to start the piece with a Cape Canaveral dateline put a smile on my face.
9/13/2024: United Airlines Will Add Free Starlink Wi-Fi Across Entire Fleet, PCMag
Many other journalists covered United’s massive deal with Starlink, but I will bet that most of them have not spent as much time with UA as I have.
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