Space – Page 23 of 93

Aug 7, 2020, 4:36 PM

ULA and SpaceX win shares of future national security launches; Blue Origin loses out

The U.S. Space Force designated United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of a multibillion-dollar competition for national security… Read More

Aug 6, 2020, 11:46 PM

SpaceX launches 57 stealth satellites for Starlink network, plus a pair for BlackSky

After weeks of delay, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent up 57 more satellites for its Starlink broadband internet constellation,… Read More

Aug 2, 2020, 5:13 PM

NASA astronauts splash down in SpaceX Dragon capsule, capping historic mission

The first mission to send NASA astronauts into orbit on a commercially owned spaceship came back down to Earth today… Read More

Aug 1, 2020, 5:20 PM

Astronauts dodge hurricane as they head for homecoming in SpaceX Dragon capsule

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule pulled away from the International Space Station today to begin the homeward flight for NASA astronauts… Read More

Jul 30, 2020, 2:47 PM

Amazon vows to invest $10B in Kuiper satellites after getting FCC’s go-ahead

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s plans for a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband… Read More

Jul 30, 2020, 9:15 AM

Liftoff! NASA’s Perseverance rover begins odyssey to seek out traces of life on Mars

With the fiery flash of a rocket launch, NASA’s Perseverance rover headed out today for what’s expected to be a… Read More

Jul 29, 2020, 6:00 AM

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover mission serves as ultimate test for working from home (planet)

The launch of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover marks the start of a seven-month-long journey involving tens of millions of miles… Read More

Jul 28, 2020, 10:00 AM

Virgin Galactic offers a peek inside SpaceShipTwo in VR, making its case in the space tourism race

More than a decade after Virgin Galactic unveiled a swoopy, spacey look for the passenger cabin of its SpaceShipTwo rocket… Read More

Jul 21, 2020, 5:26 PM

Air Force goes with BlackSky’s Spectra AI platform to track impact of COVID-19

BlackSky, a satellite data venture with offices in Seattle, says it’s won a U.S. Air Force contract to track the… Read More

Jul 21, 2020, 3:09 PM

Spaceflight and Tethers Unlimited team up on deorbiting system for satellite carrier

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’ll use a notebook-sized deorbiting system developed by another Seattle-area company to deal with the disposal… Read More

Jul 14, 2020, 7:00 AM

Former Spaceflight CEO and French entrepreneur join forces to launch astronaut training startup

If the 2010s were the decade when small satellites revolutionized the space industry, the 2020s will be when commercial space… Read More

Jul 10, 2020, 9:20 PM

FCC chief seeks conditional approval for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellite network

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s plan to put more than 3,200 satellites… Read More

Jul 3, 2020, 12:12 PM

Godspeed, Alan Boyle: GeekWire’s science editor winds down daily duties, will be contributing editor

From the depths of the ocean floor to the launch pads of Cape Canaveral, Alan Boyle has entertained, inspired and… Read More

Jul 3, 2020, 8:44 AM

British-Indian team puts in a winning $1B bid for OneWeb satellite broadband venture

Update for 12:20 p.m. Nov. 20: OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new CEO, Neil Masterson, who… Read More

Jun 30, 2020, 7:09 PM

NASA funds small-business ideas ranging from AI medicine to plumbing for the moon

NASA says it’ll fund more than 400 ideas from small businesses, aimed at creating technologies ranging from plumbing fixtures suitable… Read More

Jun 30, 2020, 1:47 PM

SpaceX sends third next-gen GPS III satellite into orbit for Space Force

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the third in a series of next-generation GPS III satellites into orbit today, marking… Read More

Jun 30, 2020, 10:53 AM

Happy Asteroid Day! Why we’re going out to space rocks before they come for us

Today’s 112th anniversary of a close brush with a cosmic catastrophe serves as a teachable moment about the perils and… Read More

Jun 30, 2020, 8:55 AM

Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace… Read More

Jun 26, 2020, 10:58 AM

British-led consortium favored to acquire OneWeb broadband satellite network

The likeliest purchaser of the bankrupt OneWeb broadband satellite venture isn’t Amazon, but a consortium backed by the British government.… Read More

Jun 25, 2020, 8:00 AM

Space Adventures looks for a customer to do a spacewalk after Russia gives its OK

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Russian space officials say that they’ve signed off on a commercial deal with Virginia-based Space Adventures to… Read More

Jun 24, 2020, 10:57 AM

Tethers Unlimited delivers software-defined radios to Millennium Space for satellite constellation

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it has completed an on-time delivery of 15 S-band software-defined radios in support of a… Read More

Jun 24, 2020, 6:00 AM

Relativity makes deals with Vandenberg AFB and Iridium for California launches

Relativity Space, a startup that was born in Seattle but grew up in Los Angeles, says it has signed an… Read More

Jun 23, 2020, 5:52 PM

Black hole or neutron star? Gravitational waves bring a cosmic conundrum to light

Telltale ripples in the fabric of spacetime have revealed the existence of a cosmic object that scientists can’t definitively classify.… Read More

Jun 23, 2020, 11:34 AM

NASA lays out a plan to qualify suborbital spacecraft for its astronauts and scientists

NASA says it’ll formulate a plan to assess the safety of suborbital spacecraft — such as Blue Origin’s New Shepard… Read More

Jun 22, 2020, 3:10 PM

LeoStella confirms delivery of BlackSky’s Earth observation satellites for SpaceX launch

Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella cast a spotlight today on the delivery of its first two built-from-scratch satellites for the BlackSky Earth-watching… Read More

Jun 22, 2020, 4:00 AM

Virgin Galactic and NASA make a deal on services for private orbital astronauts

Virgin Galactic says it has signed an agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas to develop a new readiness… Read More

Boeing's John Mulholland and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine

Jun 19, 2020, 6:01 PM

Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space… Read More

Jun 19, 2020, 3:01 PM

NASA gets set to put astronauts on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic suborbital flights

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket… Read More

Jun 18, 2020, 2:18 PM

NASA’s new head of human spaceflight says SpaceX’s Dragon is in good shape

NASA’s newly named associate administrator for human exploration and operations, Kathy Lueders, says that SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule “has been… Read More

Jun 18, 2020, 7:35 AM

Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon

The space entrepreneurs who planned to send passengers ballooning into the stratosphere for astronaut’s-eye views of the Earth below, way… Read More