Space – Page 24 of 93

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

Jun 17, 2020, 4:55 PM

Perseverance rover will go to Mars with a monument to COVID-19 medical teams

When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Mars’ Jezero Crater next February, it’ll be carrying a tribute to the medical community… Read More

Jun 17, 2020, 2:32 PM

NOAA awards Xplore $670,000 to study the options for space weather observatory

Seattle-based Xplore has won a $670,111 award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to look into the feasibility of… Read More

Jun 17, 2020, 10:55 AM

Spaceflight signs deal with SpaceX for future rideshare satellite launch slots

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s signed an agreement to secure spots for secondary payloads on several of SpaceX’s rockets due… Read More

Jun 13, 2020, 3:00 AM

SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch

SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet — marking the… Read More

Jun 12, 2020, 10:50 PM

Rocket Lab’s 12th launch sends satellites into space for NRO, NASA and Australia

Rocket Lab’s low-cost Electron rocket lofted a bevy of small satellites into orbit tonight for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA… Read More

Jun 12, 2020, 10:56 AM

Japanese firms finish acquisition of Spaceflight, with BlackSky satellite venture going its own way

Japan’s Mitsui & Co., working in partnership with Yamasa Co. Ltd., has completed the acquisition of Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. from… Read More

Jun 11, 2020, 7:30 PM

Five years after Pluto encounter, New Horizons probe does a far-out parallax experiment

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient… Read More

Jun 11, 2020, 8:45 AM

NASA picks Astrobotic to deliver its VIPER rover to lunar south pole for nearly $200M

NASA has awarded a $199.5 million contract to Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon’s south pole… Read More

Jun 11, 2020, 5:00 AM

Boeing teams up with Varjo on virtual reality training for Starliner space taxi

Boeing isn’t due to start flying NASA crews to the International Space Station until next year, but in the meantime,… Read More

Jun 9, 2020, 10:59 AM

Tethers Unlimited to provide hardware for NASA’s PUNCH sun-watching mission

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute in support of… Read More

Jun 8, 2020, 4:21 PM

5 trillion bytes a day: SpaceX engineers flash some facts about Starlink satellites

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation is still deep into testing mode, but it’s already generating 5 trillion bytes of data on… Read More

Jun 5, 2020, 1:00 PM

Don’t panic: Huge, headline-grabbing asteroid has no chance of hitting us anytime soon

The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is… Read More

Jun 4, 2020, 4:34 PM

After sparking consternation at NASA, Trump campaign pulls ad featuring SpaceX launch

An online advertisement that plays off last weekend’s historic crewed SpaceX launch to boost President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign drew… Read More