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Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network sets up logistics site and training program

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The project already employs more than 2,000 people at Puget Sound locations, including a 172,000-square-foot satellite factory in Kirkland and a 219,000-square-foot research and development facility in Redmond, Wash. ” Ramping up Lake Washington’s technician training program will also take a while.

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Google wants to build a useful quantum computer by 2029

The Verge

The search giant hopes the technology will help solve a range of big problems like feeding the world and climate change to developing better medicines. It will spend billions developing the technology over the next decade, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google also expects quantum computing to have big benefits for AI development.

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Europe takes on Starlink with $11.5 billion IRIS² satellite constellation

Network World

The project will be jointly developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and SpaceRISE, a consortium of satellite industry leaders, and positions itself as Europes strategic alternative to commercial networks such as SpaceXs Starlink. The European Union is planning its own satellite constellation, IRIS, as part of a 10.6 billion ($11.1

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Blue Origin targets 2025 for cargo lander’s inaugural moon trip, with humans to follow

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(Blue Origin Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is aiming to send an uncrewed lander to the surface of the moon in the next 12 to 16 months, according to the executive in charge of the development program. “We’re expecting to land on the moon between 12 and 16 months from today,” Couluris said.

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IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing

Network World

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development. Strabley, too, believes that 2029 will be a tipping point for commercial applications for quantum computing technology.

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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan

Network World

But New York had a total data center capacity of just 292 MW in 2022, a figure expected to rise to just 540 MW by 2029, according to an analysis of New York data center market size and share by Mordor Intelligence. Singapore has an area of just 734 square kilometers, making it a little smaller than New York City.

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Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA on Pentagon list for $5.6B in launch contracts

GeekWire

The ordering period for what’s known as the Phase 3 Lane 1 procurement process runs through mid-2029, with an optional five-year extension. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, named after the late NASA astronaut John Glenn, is still under development at the company’s facilities in Florida. In a news release , the U.S.