And it's now in the nightly builds if anyone wishes to try it! Improved the UI quite a bit. https://t.co/Z3b2daBkTr

On Dec. 21, 2015, SpaceX launched the Orbcomm-2 mission on an upgraded version of its Falcon 9 rocket. That night, just days before Christmas, the company successfully landed the first stage for the first time. The story behind this remarkable achievement is nowhere more fully told than in the…

Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is causing recent service outages that prevent trucking companies from managing their fleets.

On Dec. 21, 2015, SpaceX launched the Orbcomm-2 mission on an upgraded version of its Falcon 9 rocket. That night, just days before Christmas, the company successfully landed the first stage for the first time. The story behind this remarkable achievement is nowhere more fully told than in the book Reentry, authored by Ars Technica Senior Space Editor Eric Berger and published in 2024. To mark the tenth anniversary, Ars is reprinting a slightly condensed chapter from the book that tells the inside story of this landing. The chapter begins in June 2015 with a tragedy, the disintegration of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the CRS-7 cargo supply mission for NASA. It was the first time a Falcon 9 had been lost in flight. Seconds after the Dragon-bearing Falcon 9 rocket broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, David Giger shouted into his headset, “Dragon is alive!” In the decade since he joined the company straight out of graduate school, Giger had taken on management of the entire Dragon program, reporting directly to Elon Musk. He watched the CRS-7 launch from mission control in Hawthorne not with a particular role, but rather providing a leadership presence. Giger could sense the Dragon mission team, mostly younger engineers, freeze up as video showed debris from the rocket showering back to Earth. A lot of the people involved in the hairy early flights of Dragon, including the C2 mission in 2012, had moved on to other positions at SpaceX or departed.Read full article Comments

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Key Takeaways This article covers the latest developments around ORBCOMM pulls in new financing, replaces all publicly-traded debt and their market implications. Industry experts and analysts are closely monitoring how this situation evolves. Investors and business professionals should review exposure and strategy in light of these changes. Key risks and opportunities are examined in detail below. The recent announcement by ORBCOMM, a leading provider of satellite-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, has sent shockwaves through the financial markets. The company has pulled in a significant new financing round, replacing all of its publicly-traded debt.

ORBCOMM, a major ELD provider for the trucking industry, experienced a ransomware attack on September 6, 2023, affecting FleetManager platform and Blue Tree ELDs (BT500 and BT504), prompting efforts to restore services and allowing paper logs usage until services are restored.