Space – Page 20 of 93

May 1, 2021, 8:06 AM

How Starlink, Project Kuiper and other satellite broadband providers could change society

Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education… Read More

May 1, 2021, 8:06 AM

How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

What will commercial space stations be good for? The application that typically comes up would be their use as space… Read More

Apr 30, 2021, 4:44 PM

NASA freezes SpaceX’s lunar lander cash due to protests from Blue Origin, Dynetics

NASA says it’ll hold up on its payments to SpaceX for developing its Starship super-rocket as a lunar lander while… Read More

Apr 29, 2021, 3:26 PM

‘We are airborne!’ Stratolaunch sends the world’s biggest plane on second test flight

Stratolaunch, the aerospace company founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, put the world’s biggest airplane through its second… Read More

Apr 29, 2021, 8:07 AM

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight

Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace… Read More

Apr 27, 2021, 11:00 AM

Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ after FCC puts conditions on a shift in SpaceX Starlink satellites

The Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to modify the planned orbits for future satellites in its… Read More

Apr 27, 2021, 10:28 AM

Elon Musk taunts Jeff Bezos over Blue Origin’s challenge to SpaceX’s contract for lunar lander

The billionaire space battle just got kicked up a notch, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture challenging… Read More

Apr 20, 2021, 4:26 PM

RBC Signals raises $1.2M to get ready for the coming boom in satellite data traffic

Redmond, Wash.-based RBC Signals says it’s closed on a $1.2 million funding round that’s meant to put the venture in… Read More

Apr 19, 2021, 9:00 AM

Amazon picks the rocket that’ll launch the first Kuiper satellites — and it’s not from Blue Origin

United Launch Alliance says it’s struck a deal for a series of nine launches of its Atlas V rocket to… Read More

Apr 16, 2021, 4:36 PM

NASA awards $2.9B to SpaceX for Starship lunar lander; Blue Origin team is left out

In a surprise move that was dictated by budget constraints, NASA is awarding $2.89 billion to SpaceX alone for the… Read More

Apr 15, 2021, 6:47 PM

Going, going … goniometer! First Mode delivers measuring gizmo for Mars mission

The 3-foot-wide contraption that was built in First Mode’s Seattle workshop looks like something from a science-fiction movie, complete with… Read More

Apr 14, 2021, 10:18 AM

‘It’s time’: Jeff Bezos hails Blue Origin’s fiery rehearsal for crewed suborbital spaceflight

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture flew a mannequin into space today during the 15th test flight for… Read More

Apr 7, 2021, 12:17 PM

SpaceX leases new 125,000-square-foot complex in Seattle area as Starlink satellite operation grows

SpaceX is leasing a 124,907-square-foot building complex that’s under construction in Redmond Ridge Business Park, east of Seattle, according to… Read More

Apr 2, 2021, 5:01 PM

SpaceX rocket debris recovered from Central Washington farm after fiery fall

The atmospheric re-entry and breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage created a fiery display in the skies… Read More

Mar 30, 2021, 12:00 PM

Amazon Web Services is launching Space Accelerator for final-frontier startups

Amazon Web Services is raising the curtain on AWS Space Accelerator, a four-week business support program that’s open to space… Read More

Mar 30, 2021, 6:58 AM

Seattle-area engineer and Arizona teacher join billionaire’s crew for charity space trip

The crew is set for a philanthropic space flight that’s being funded by a tech billionaire — and Christopher Sembroski,… Read More

Mar 25, 2021, 10:27 PM

Expert skywatchers quickly solve Pacific Northwest’s meteor mystery

Was it a meteor? A broken-up satellite? Maybe a UFO? Leave it to an astronomer to identify what caused the… Read More

Mar 25, 2021, 3:30 PM

Lasers on the moon? Nuclear rockets? NASA awards millions for way-out tech

NASA’s latest crop of space technology grants will fund work on projects ranging from power-beaming lasers for lunar missions to… Read More

Mar 25, 2021, 3:00 AM

BlackSky’s latest satellite delivers first images (and AI insights) hours after launch

That didn’t take long: BlackSky says the latest Earth observation satellite in its growing constellation delivered its first imagery less… Read More

Mar 23, 2021, 4:11 PM

Kymeta and Kepler team up to demonstrate satellite connectivity in Arctic deep freeze

Kymeta Corp. — the hybrid connectivity venture that’s based in Redmond, Wash. — says it has demonstrated how its flat-panel… Read More

Mar 22, 2021, 3:30 PM

Atmosphere-monitoring satellites will ride on Spaceflight’s new breed of space tug

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s won a contract to handle the launch logistics for a pair of NASA satellites that… Read More

Bill Nelson and Chris Ferguson at Starliner mockup

Mar 19, 2021, 3:23 PM

Next NASA chief will face big decisions on future moonshots (and Blue Origin’s role)

President Joe Biden’s choice to lead NASA — former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson — will be in the hot seat… Read More

Mar 18, 2021, 1:04 PM

Florida space officials discuss satellite factory with ‘Project Kraken,’ but it’s not Project Kuiper

An unnamed space company may have picked up a code name with Seattle connotations during negotiations for a satellite factory… Read More

Mar 11, 2021, 6:45 AM

Critics take aim at SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other satellite constellations

SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb say their satellite mega-constellations will make broadband internet goodness available to billions of people around the… Read More

Mar 9, 2021, 4:48 PM

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity on suborbital flight

With backing from NASA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture will upgrade its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to… Read More

Mar 8, 2021, 5:18 PM

SpaceX seeks FCC’s OK to extend Starlink satellite service to vehicles, ships, planes

SpaceX is asking the Federal Communications Commission to authorize the operation of equipment extending the company’s Starlink satellite broadband internet… Read More

Mar 5, 2021, 2:50 PM

NASA names Perseverance rover landing site on Mars after Seattle sci-fi pioneer Octavia E. Butler

Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized… Read More

Mar 2, 2021, 5:16 PM

SpaceX aims to expand its Starlink satellite operation to Texas and set up Starbase City

SpaceX is planning to break ground on a “state-of-the-art manufacturing facility” in Austin, Texas, to support a satellite operation that… Read More

Mar 2, 2021, 8:00 AM

Boeing Insitu founders raise cash for Aerovel, which makes drones that take off and land vertically

An aerospace venture started by the founders of Boeing’s Insitu business unit just raised fresh cash as the company ramps… Read More

Feb 25, 2021, 3:18 PM

NASA backs concepts for deep-drilling Mars rover and interstellar-object probe

The latest crop of NASA-backed concepts for far-out space exploration includes “borebots” that could drill as far as a mile… Read More